Golf Games

Total putts on all 18 holes. 

Each player in succession will play the PINK ball from tee to green. Rotate the PINK around team so that a different player uses it on each hole. Put the score for PINK Ball in the Pink Ball Score Box.

If you lose the PINK ball, your team is out of the game; whoever returns the PINK Ball at the end of the game, will be counted in for the game.

Keep your own individual 18 hole score to post.

1 point for Bogey; 2 points for Par; 3 points for Birdie*Individuals with the most points after the round wins. 

In golf's Poker, though, you are using your golf scores to build that Poker hand. And in Poker, you are building one hand from your front nine scores, and a second hand from your back nine scores. That means any group playing Poker gets to play it twice.

3-5-5-6-4-4-5-3-4

What poker hand can you build from that? You can build a full house, fours over threes (4-4-4-3-3). Note that you also had three 5s on your front nine, but low scores are better. Also note that in Poker, you are building five-card hands, which means four holes per nine aren't going to matter for the purposes of this betting game. If your group is playing Poker as a solo game (not in combination with any other games, and not betting on the actual total scores), then you can play aggressively on every hole knowing that four holes won't matter for the game.

How do hands rank in the golf version of Poker? This is the heirarchy:

• Five of a kind
• Four of

Chip-ins = 4 points
1 putt = 3 points
2 putts = 2 points
3 putt (or more!) - subtract 1 points.btract 3 points.

While players are on the course. the pro randomly chooses/draws any nine of the eighteen holes to be used for the game. When players finish, they add the scores for those nine holes and subtract half their handicap.

Your score on a hole earns you points in a quota tournament, and this is the most common way points are awarded:

Bogeys - 1 point
Pars - 2 points
Birdies - 4 points
Eagles - 8 points
Note that these points are for gross pars, gross birdies and so on. (This is because your handicap is used in determining your quota goal.)

QUOTA FORMAT 1: EACH GOLFER BEGINS WITH POINTS AND TRIES TO BEAT 36
The goal is beat a target of 36 points, and the golfer who exceeds that goal by the most is the winner.

But every golfer begins with a certain amount of points. Start by determining your course handicap. Let's say your course handicap is 10; then 10 is your starting amount of points. You tee off No. 1 with 10 points. If you par the first hole, you earn 2 points, and now you're at 12. And so on.

Let's say your course handicap is 24; then you begin with 24 points. If you double bogey the first hole, you earn no points and are still at 24. If you bogey the second hole, you earn one point and now have 25. (Remember, we're talking about gross scores, not net scores.) And so on.

If you finish with 42 points, you beat the quota by six points, or +6.

If you finish with 30 points, you finish at -6.

Again, the golfer who, in this version, beats 36 points by the most is the winner.

Play from Red tees on Par 5 holes;
Play from White tees on Par 4 holes;
Play from Blue tees on Par 3 holes

Two golfers play as a team and alternate hitting the same golf ball.
Example: Players A and B are partners. They decide among themselves who tees off first on the first hole. They decide on Player A to hit the opening tee ball. A hits the tee shot. Then Player B hits the second shot. The third stroke is played by Player A. Then Player B hits the fourth. They alternate hitting shots until the ball is in the hole.
 

A scramble is where the team consists of two, three or four players. After each shot, the best of the shots is selected, and all players play from that spot (no more than 1 club length in a similar lie and no closer to the hole) until the ball is holed. One team score is recorded.