Golf side game
How to play Stroke play
For 2 to 6 players.
How it works
Total score, counting every stroke.
The money
- Low score wins (the default) is three bets: the lowest total on the front 9, on the back 9 and over the 18 ($5, $5 and $10 to start). For each bet every other player pays the low total the stake; players tied for low split it. A bet set at $0 is left out, so $0, $0 and $10 is the 18 alone.
- Per stroke: each pair of players settles the difference in their totals over the 18, so much a stroke.
When it settles
A nine settles once everyone has played its last hole, and the score screen says so. Until then it’s in play: the Money tab shows who’s leading and what it would pay, apart from the money already decided.
Handicaps
Net (the default, full handicaps) or gross.
Example
Four players, $5 on the front 9. Ann and Di shoot 40, Bo 42, Cy 44. Ann and Di tie for low: Bo and Cy each pay $5, and Ann and Di split the $10.
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.
- 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.
- 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.