A pair of enterprising brothers have invested £3,000 into their golfing business to deliver live digital scoring at events across the region.

Ben and Sam Phillips, founders of Norwich-based Golf Days UK, have ordered 25 iPhones that will run a live scoring application allowing players to track their progress in real-time.

The programme, produced by Finnish company GameBook, has been hailed by the siblings for bringing a 'professional experience' to amateur events.

And it will also add a new dimension to the firm's staple business of delivering amateur golf tours and specialist golfing holidays – with plans afoot to expand their tours from three – in Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire – to six across the UK.

It comes as the two-year-old firm saw its turnover rise to £120,000 this year, with revenues partly boosted by a deal with Nike to offer prizes in conjunction with golf breaks.

Co-director Ben Phillips, who aims to grow the turnover to £240,000, said: 'Our main focus at the moment is getting the live scoring at golf events across the region. The way it will work is that players will go out with an iPhone, input their score after each hole, then when they come back to the clubhouse leaderboard they will be able to see where they are in the competition.

'It adds another element to what we do, and it is something that big golf days can use. It also allows us to bring that professional experience to the everyday golfer. It brings that excitement and drama because the players will know what is happening as they play.'

Each amateur golf tour features 10 different courses, while its golf breaks includes trips to Gleneagles in Scotland and Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire.

He added: 'We are always looking to add more venues for our golf breaks, but they have to be the right ones.

'We could fill our website with loads of sites, but we might find people coming back telling us that their experience was horrendous.

'We only advertise places where we know people will have a good time because we have tried them out ourselves.'