Developers and AI builders
Golf data your app or agent can query
REST and MCP over the same data: tournaments, leaderboards, scorecards, players and ratings, with ESPN's stable ids.
ESPN's golf JSON is public but undocumented, and changes shape across years.
Agents need clean, documented tools, not leaderboard pages.
What to build
Tournament apps
get_schedule for what is on, get_leaderboard for the field, get_scorecard for any player's card.
An assistant that knows golf
Point Claude or ChatGPT at the MCP server and ask in plain English about players, courses and results.
What it will not do
- Updated each morning: this is not a live, shot-by-shot feed.
Worth reading first
Start with 500 free credits
No card. REST or MCP.