MCP server + golf skills

Claude skills for golf analytics.

Free Claude skills that turn Claude into a golf analyst: strokes versus the field, par-3, par-4 and par-5 splits, hole-by-hole scoring, course history and majors winner odds, all wired to the BirdieAPI MCP server.

# Install the skills as a Claude Code plugin (or git clone the repo)
> /plugin marketplace add noahowsh/birdieapi-mcp
> /plugin install birdieapi-skills@birdieapi

# Add the MCP server
$ claude mcp add birdieapi https://mcp.birdieapi.com/mcp?key=YOUR_API_KEY --transport streamable-http

# Then ask Claude a stable first question
$ claude "Using BirdieAPI, show the latest PGA Tour leaderboard and each leader's round scores. Cite the tools used."

Claude Desktop config

Use this when your MCP client accepts a Streamable HTTP URL.

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "birdieapi": {
      "url": "https://mcp.birdieapi.com/mcp?key=YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
}

First useful prompts

“Using BirdieAPI, show the latest PGA Tour leaderboard and each leader's round scores. Cite the tools used.”

“Using BirdieAPI, compare two players' par-3, par-4 and par-5 scoring this season. Cite the tools used.”

“Using BirdieAPI, show the winner odds for the next men's major and convert them to probabilities that add up to 100%. Cite the tools used.”

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14 MCP tools

The same golf data is available through REST and MCP. Credits are charged per tool call.

Open endpoint docs

list_tournaments1cr

A season's tournaments with dates, winner, purse and courses

search_players1cr

Find players by name

get_schedule1cr

Tournaments this week and coming up, with the host course

get_leaderboard2cr

A tournament's full leaderboard: position, rounds, total, earnings and points

get_scorecard2cr

A player's hole-by-hole scorecard for a tournament, with par and yardage

get_course2cr

A course as set up for a tournament: par and yards per hole and how each hole played

get_ratings2cr

Our strokes-versus-field rating: every active player, field-strength adjusted

get_player5cr

Profile, rating, season lines and recent finishes

get_player_results5cr

A player's tournaments and rounds by season, with strokes versus the field

get_player_stats5cr

A player's season stats: scoring, birdies, par-3/4/5 scoring, driving, greens, putting

get_course_history5cr

A player's record at one tournament or course, every year

get_head_to_head5cr

Two players' finishes and rounds in every tournament they both played

get_leaders5cr

Season leaders for any stat we compute or ESPN keeps

get_winner_odds5cr

The four majors' winner prices by sportsbook before the first round: opening and latest, with implied probability

MCP tools

skills

skill categories

Data Exploration

Find games, scout players, check odds.

tournament-lookup

Find tournaments, winners, schedules and full leaderboards on every tour.

player-scouting

Player ids, career and season lines, recent rounds and head-to-head.

odds-explorer

Compare major winner prices across books and read how they moved.

tournament-preview

Course, form, course record and market in one pre-tournament read.

Golf Analytics

Strokes versus the field, hole splits and course fit.

strokes-vs-field

Rate and rank golfers on strokes versus the field, adjusted for field strength.

hole-scoring

Par 3/4/5 splits, birdie and bogey rates, hole difficulty and scorecards.

course-fit

A player's record at one event or course, shrunk toward general form.

outright-model

Simulate a tournament from ratings and compare with the devigged market.

Methodology

Feature engineering, validation and calibration that hold up on time series.

feature-engineering

Leak-free golf features: as-of ratings, rolling form, course history.

walk-forward-validation

Time-ordered, tournament-grouped testing with a market baseline.

probability-calibration

Reliability checks for made-cut, top-10 and winner probabilities.

odds-analysis

Implied probability, overround and devigging for a 100-runner outright.

Betting

Find edges, size bets, track performance honestly.

edge-detection

EV, joint Kelly on mutually exclusive winners and sample-size reality.

backtesting

Test rules on past majors with bootstrap intervals; bet log template.

Workflow

Previews and routing that combine several skills.

dispatch

Routes a golf request to the right 2-3 skills.

Infrastructure

MCP tool routing and credit tracking.

birdieapi-tool

All 14 BirdieAPI tools, credits, the league switch and the data envelope.

Open source methodology. Production-ready data.

The skills are free forever. When you need real data, BirdieAPI is ready. Start with 500 free credits every month.

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