Overview

Welcome to the Sportradar Golf API Integration Guide. This guide set explains how to build with the Golf API: the concepts behind the data, the practical basics of making requests, and step-by-step scenarios for the things developers most often build. It complements the API reference, which documents each endpoint field by field.

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Who This Is For

These guides are for developers integrating golf data into an application: live leaderboards, player pages, fantasy and betting products, broadcast graphics, and research tools. They assume general REST API experience but not prior golf-data experience; the Fundamentals guide builds the golf vocabulary you need.

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Prerequisites

• A Sportradar account and a Golf API key; Make Your First Call walks through creating both. See API Basics for authentication and base URLs.
• Familiarity with HTTP and either JSON or XML; every feed supports both formats.

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Guides vs the API Reference

The two are complementary:

• The Integration Guides (these pages) explain how and why: workflows, status lifecycles, polling strategy, and worked examples.
• The API Reference documents what: every endpoint, parameter, and response field.

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How the Guides Are Organized

The map below shows the four tiers and every page in each; each pill links to its guide.

Each scenario is described in the what-you-build table on the Integration Scenarios landing page, and the Tournament Status Workflow page is the canonical status reference the other guides lean on.

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Recommended Reading Order

New to the Golf API: Overview, then API Basics, then Fundamentals, then the Integration Scenarios landing page, then the scenario that matches your use case.

Experienced with Sportradar APIs: skim API Basics for the golf-specific URL shapes, read ID Handling and the Tournament Status Workflow page, then go straight to your scenario.

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Companion Tools

• Postman: fork the Sportradar Golf collection to exercise the feeds without code.
• MCP Server: the Sportradar Golf MCP Server connects AI assistants to the feeds.
• Schema download: the Golf v3 XSD bundle for validating xml responses.

See API Basics for details on each.