Golf game rules
The games your group actually plays, explained plainly. Skins, Nassau, Wolf, Vegas, and more, with the variations and how to settle. Skins Golf scores every one of them live.
Skins Game Rules
A skins game gives a 'skin' to whoever wins a hole outright. Tie the hole and no one wins it, so the skin carries to the next hole. That carryover is what makes skins fun: one hole can be worth a stack of skins.
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Nassau Rules
A Nassau is three bets in one match: the front nine, the back nine, and the overall eighteen. Each is worth the same stake, so a $5 Nassau is up to $15. Presses add new bets when someone falls behind.
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Wolf Rules
Wolf rotates a 'wolf' each hole. The wolf tees off last in the order and, after watching each playing partner's tee shot, can pick that player as a partner — or pass on everyone and go 'lone wolf' to take on the field for bigger points.
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Las Vegas Golf Game Rules
In Vegas, each two-player team combines its scores on a hole into a single two-digit number, lower score first. A 4 and a 6 become 46. The two teams' numbers are subtracted, and the difference is the points won.
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Bingo Bango Bongo Rules
Bingo Bango Bongo awards three points on every hole: 'bingo' to the first ball on the green, 'bango' to the closest to the pin once everyone is on, and 'bongo' to the first ball in the hole. Order of play matters more than raw skill, so it keeps mixed groups close.
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Stableford Scoring Rules
Stableford scores by points, not strokes. You earn points based on your net score versus par on each hole: a blow-up just scores zero instead of a big number, so it keeps everyone in the round. Most points wins.
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Match Play Rules
Match play is scored hole by hole, not by total strokes. Win a hole and you go one 'up'; lose it and you go one 'down'; tie and the hole is 'halved'. The match ends as soon as a side is more holes up than there are holes left to play.
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Banker Golf Game Rules
In Banker, one player each hole is the 'banker' and plays a separate match against every other player at the same time. The banker rotates so everyone takes a turn carrying both the risk and the upside.
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Rabbit Golf Game Rules
A 'rabbit' is loose at the start of each nine. Win a hole outright and you 'catch the rabbit'. Hold it to the end of the nine and you win that nine. The catch: anyone who wins a hole outright takes the rabbit from you.
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Chairman Golf Game Rules
Win a hole outright and you become the 'chairman'. You score a point for every hole you stay chairman. You keep the chair until another player wins a hole outright and takes it. Most points at the end wins.
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