The PGA Tour API: free endpoints, Data Golf and BirdieAPI

The options

• Data Golf API

  A documented API for members: field lists, schedules, model predictions, live and historical odds from many sportsbooks, and round-level scoring, stats and strokes gained from 22 tours.

  Live. Needs a Scratch Plus membership: $30 a month or $270 a year on its plans page, with the annual plan required for archive access. Rate limit of 45 requests a minute, with a 5-minute suspension if exceeded.

• PGA Tour site API (GraphQL)

  The endpoints behind pgatour.com: orchestrator.pgatour.com/graphql, data-api.pgatour.com and a config host. The pgatourPY wrapper's README lists leaderboards, player stats, scorecards, shot tracking with coordinates, tee times and FedExCup standings.

  Not documented by the PGA Tour. Per the wrapper's README it uses a public API key embedded in the site's frontend and says to override it if the key rotates. We did not call these hosts ourselves.

• WalrusQuant/pgatourPY

  A Python client for the PGA Tour's site API that returns pandas data frames.

  MIT. Created 2026-03-19; last pushed 2026-08-15. Installed from GitHub, not PyPI.

• coreyjs/data-golf-api

  An unofficial Python library for the Data Golf API.

  MIT. Last pushed 2026-08-25. It still needs a Data Golf API key.

• ESPN golf JSON

  ESPN's public golf scoreboard and core API: tournaments, leaderboards and scores across several tours.

  Live. Free, no key, undocumented. The PGA Tour scoreboard answered with HTTP 200 on 2026-10-14.

Side by side

Example call

Rory McIlroy's first round at the 2026 Masters, hole by hole: par, yards, strokes and the result of each hole, with his score against the field that day. Pass any tournament and player id from list_tournaments and get_leaderboard.

curl -X POST https://mcp.birdieapi.com/v1/get_scorecard \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "tournament_id": "401811941",
  "player_id": "3470"
}'

{"data": {"result": {"tournament_id": "401811941", "tournament": "Masters Tournament", "season": 2026, "start_date": "2026-04-09", "player_id": "3470", "name": "Rory McIlroy", "position_display": "1", "status": "finished", "to_par": -12, "total_strokes": 276}, "rounds": [{"round": 1, "playoff": false, "strokes": 67, "to_par": -5, "out": 34, "in": 33, "course_id": "21", "course": "Augusta National Golf Club", "field_avg": 74.65, "vs_field": 7.65, "holes_played": 18, "holes": [{"hole": 1, "par": 4, "yards": 445, "strokes": 4, "result": "par"}, {"hole": 2, "par": 5, "yards": 585, "strokes": 4, "result": "birdie"}, {"hole": 3, "par": 4, "yards": 350, "strokes": 5, "result": "bogey"}]}]}}

The response is cut to the first round and its first three holes here (the full scorecard has every round and all 18 holes). Responses are wrapped in a data object. get_scorecard costs 2 credits.

Use the PGA Tour's own endpoints and Data Golf instead if

• You need shot-level data or strokes gained by category. BirdieAPI has neither; Data Golf and the PGA Tour's own feeds do.
• You need model predictions or odds beyond the four majors' winner prices.
• You need live leaderboards during a tournament. BirdieAPI updates each morning.
• You want data from the 22 tours Data Golf covers.
• Your budget is zero and you are comfortable maintaining a wrapper around an undocumented feed.

Questions

Sources

• Data Golf API access
• Data Golf membership plans
• pgatourPY README (PGA Tour site API details)
• coreyjs/data-golf-api
• ESPN PGA Tour scoreboard JSON

Checked October 14, 2026.

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