LivePlayScore brings you golf live scores and leaderboards from the four majors, the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour, LIV Golf, the LPGA and the big team events, updated hole by hole. Each player's score to par, position, holes completed and round scores appear on this page as the tournament unfolds. It's free, and you don't need an account.

Golf is a four-day story, and most of it happens while you're busy. The first two rounds run through Thursday and Friday, when most people are at work. A Sunday afternoon finish in the US can mean late at night in Europe and early Monday morning in Asia. If you can't watch every shot, you still want to know who's making a charge, who's falling back and where the cut line sits. This page is built for that: open it, check the leaderboard, and you're caught up.

Each live tournament shows a full leaderboard. For every player, you'll see:

• Position: where the player stands, with "T" for tied, such as T4.
• Total score to par: for example, -12 means twelve under par for the tournament, and E means even par.
• Today: the player's score for the current round.
• Thru: how many holes they've played in this round, or their tee time if they haven't started. "F" means they've finished the round.
• Round scores: the score for each completed round.

Tap a player to see their scorecard, hole by hole, with birdies, eagles, bogeys and pars marked. If you only need to know who's leading, the top of the leaderboard gives you that. If you want to know how a player dropped five spots on the back nine, the scorecard usually shows exactly where it went wrong.

If you're new to following golf, the leaderboard is easy to read once you know a few terms.

Every hole has a par, the number of strokes a good player is expected to take, usually 3, 4 or 5. A birdie is one under par on a hole, an eagle is two under, and a bogey is one over. A double bogey is two over.

Most professional tournaments are stroke play over four rounds of 18 holes, which is 72 holes in total. The player with the lowest total wins. If players are tied at the end, there's usually a playoff over extra holes to decide the winner.

After the second round, most events have a cut. Only players inside a set number of places, plus ties, play the weekend. The rest go home. Watching the cut line on Friday is one of the most tense parts of any week.

Team events such as the Ryder Cup use match play, where players compete hole by hole and each match is worth a point for the team.

The men's majors. The four biggest events in men's golf:

• The Masters at Augusta National, every April.
• The PGA Championship in May.
• The US Open in June.
• The Open Championship in July, played on links courses in the UK.

Tours and series. The PGA Tour, including the FedEx Cup Playoffs and the Tour Championship, the DP World Tour and the Race to Dubai, and LIV Golf's team and individual events. We also follow the Korn Ferry Tour and the PGA Tour Champions.

Women's golf. The LPGA Tour and the five women's majors: the Chevron Championship, the US Women's Open, the KPMG Women's PGA Championship, the Evian Championship and the AIG Women's Open.

Team events. The Ryder Cup between Europe and the USA, the Presidents Cup and the Solheim Cup, some of the most emotional weeks in the sport.

Our scores come from a professional real-time golf data feed, the kind used by broadcasters and sports apps. The page updates by itself during play, so you don't need to keep refreshing.

A few situations can make a leaderboard look odd for a moment. Here's how we handle them:

• Weather delays. Play is suspended for lightning, heavy rain or strong wind. When that happens, the leaderboard freezes and shows that play is suspended. When play restarts, sometimes the next morning, the scores pick up from where each player left off.
• Rules penalties. A player can be given penalty strokes after a ruling, sometimes after they've finished the hole. When that happens, the score updates to match the official scorecard.
• Split tees. In the first two rounds, players start on both the 1st and 10th tees. That's why one player can be "thru 5" and another "thru 14" at the same time. The total score to par is what matters.

If you ever see a score that doesn't match what's on TV, let us know through our contact page. Reader reports have helped us catch mistakes, and we'd rather fix them fast. You can also read more about who we are and how we work on our About LivePlayScore page.

If you're checking in during a round, a few details tell you most of the story:

Thru, not just the score. A player at -10 thru 9 still has half the round to play. A player at -11 who has finished may end up behind them.

Today's score. A player at -6 for the day is making a real move. Look for the biggest numbers in the Today column to see who's charging.

The cut line. On Friday, check where the projected cut sits. A player one shot outside it with a few holes left is under real pressure.

The back nine on Sunday. Leads of three or four shots can disappear fast on the closing holes. Tournaments are often won and lost in the last hour.