Golf side game
How to play Nines
For a threesome. Also called 5-3-1.
How it works
Nine points on every hole: 5 for the low score, 3 for the next and 1 for the high.
Ties
- Two tied for low: 4 each, and 1 for the high score.
- Two tied for high: 5 for the low score, and 2 each.
- All three tied: 3 each.
The money
Each pair of players settles the difference in their points ($1 a point to start). It adds up hole by hole, so each hole’s money is decided once all three scores are in.
Handicaps
Net (the default), with full handicaps or off the low player, or gross.
Example
Ann makes 4, Bo 5 and Cy 6: 5, 3 and 1 points. At $1 a point Ann wins $2 from Bo and $4 from Cy, and Bo wins $2 from Cy.
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.
- Birdies 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.
- Team skins For a foursome, in two teams of two.
- Team stroke play For a foursome, in two teams of two.