Golf side game
How to play Sixes
For a foursome. Also called Round Robin or Hollywood.
How it works
Three six-hole matches, two against two, each side’s better score counts, with new partners every six holes so everyone plays with everyone. In the order the players are listed: holes 1 to 6, players 1 and 2 against 3 and 4; holes 7 to 12, 1 and 3 against 2 and 4; holes 13 to 18, 1 and 4 against 2 and 3.
The money
The side that wins more holes in a six wins it, and each player on that side collects the stake from a player on the other ($5 a six to start). A six with as many holes won each way is a push.
Handicaps
Net (the default), with full handicaps or off the low player, or gross.
Example
Holes 1 to 6: Ann and Bo win three holes, Cy and Di win two, and one is halved. Ann and Bo each collect $5.
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.
- 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.