Golf side game
How to play Birdies
For 2 to 6 players, on top of any game.
How it works
Each birdie collects a set amount from every other player ($2 to start), and an eagle or better collects more ($10 to start). A birdie counts as soon as the player’s score is in.
Real or net
Real birdies (the default) count the actual score. Net birdies take the player’s handicap strokes on the hole off first.
With dots
Dots can pay for birdies too. With both on, turn birdies off in Dots so they aren’t paid twice.
Example
Four players: Ann’s birdie collects $2 from each of the other three, $6 in all, and Bo’s eagle collects $10 from each, $30.
This is how Putt for Dough plays it; setup changes the amounts. Free, with no account: one phone keeps score, everyone follows the money live, and settling up is a tap.
More games
- Nassau For 2 to 6 players, one on one, or two teams of two in a foursome.
- Skins For 2 to 6 players.
- Banker For 2 to 6 players.
- Wolf For a foursome.
- Vegas For a foursome, in two teams of two.
- Stroke play For 2 to 6 players.
- Stableford For 2 to 6 players.
- Dots For 2 to 6 players, on top of any game.
- Sixes For a foursome. Also called Round Robin or Hollywood.
- Bingo Bango Bongo For 2 to 6 players.
- Low ball / high ball For a foursome, in two teams of two.
- Nines For a threesome. Also called 5-3-1.
- Team skins For a foursome, in two teams of two.
- Team stroke play For a foursome, in two teams of two.