Golf Games, Formats and Side Bets: How to Play 'Em

Golf is full of side games and competition formats, hundreds of possibilities for a group of buddies or a field of tournament players. What you'll find here are explanations of hundreds of those games.

How do you play an Arizona Shuffle, Canadian Foursomes or Zookeeper? Barkies, Arnies or Chippies? Those and dozens and dozens more betting games and tournament formats are explained in this Golf Games Dictionary. And here are a couple related articles that might come in handy for tournament players or golf gamblers: How to Decide Playing Order on the First Tee, and Scorecard Playoffs: How to Break Ties.

But what if you want a collection of golf game definitions in hard copy? We'll start by offering a few book recommendations, and then get into the alphabetically organized glossary below.

Recommended Books on Golf Games

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Glossary of Golf Games, Bets and Tournament Formats

This Golf Games Glossary is a work in progress with new formats frequently added.

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14 Clubs — 12-Point Game — 21 (Twenty-One) — 24-Second Clock — 2-By-4 — 2 Clubs and a Putter — 2-1-1 — 2-2-2 — 3-Club Challenge (3-Club Monte) — 3 In 1 — 3 Blind Mice — 3 Little Pigs — 3-Point Game — 3-Putt Poker — 3-2 (3/2) — 30 Balls — 4-Ball Aggregate — 4-Point Game — 40 Balls — 50/50 — 5 of Clubs — 5-3-1 — 58 (Fifty-Eight) - 59 (Fifty-Nine) - 6 In 60 — 6-Point Game — 16 Points

A

ABCD — Acey Ducey (Aces and Deuces) — Air Press — Ambrose Scramble — American Foursomes — Arizona Shuffle — Arnies — Appearances — Auto Win

B

Back It Up — Bag Raid — Barkies — Battle Golf — The Bear — Beat the Pro — Beat the Worst — Best at Something — Best Drive — Best Holes — Best Nines — Big Fish — Big Stick — Bingle Bangle Bungle — Bisque — Bisque Stroke — Blackjack — Blind Bogey — Blind Nine — Bobby Jones — Bogey or Bust — Boo Handicap — Bounce Back — Bowmaker — Box Tournament — Bridge — Bridgee (Bridges) — Buckshot — Bus Driver — Buy the Pro — Bye

C

Canadian Foursomes — Chairman — Chapman System (Chapman Scoring) — Chasing the Bear — Chicago — Chippies — Choker — Circle Hole — The Clock (Clock Golf) — Closeout — C.O.D. — Cone Game — Crenshaws — Criers and Whiners — Cube — Cut Throat

D - E

Daytona — Defender — Derby — Designated Hitter — Disaster — Dots (the Dot Game) — Drop Out Game — Duffer's Defense — Dunce Cap — Eliminator — English

F

Fairways and Greens — Fairways to Heaven — Favorite Holes — Fensomes — Ferret — Fifty/Fifty — Fish — Fishies — Five of Clubs — Flaggies — Flagsticks — Flaps — Foot Wedges — Fort Lauderdale — Forty Balls — Four-Ball Aggregate — Four Horsemen — Four-Point Game — Fourteen Clubs — Froggies — Furyk (58)

G

Geiberger — Get Out Scramble — Golden Ferret — Gotchas (Gotcha) — Greenies — Gritty Par — Gruesomes

H

Hard Work — Hate 'Em — Herman and Sherman — High-Low — Hog — Hogan (Hogans or Hogies) — Hollywood — Honest John — Honors — Horse Race

I - J - K

In the Bucket — In the Chair — Invisible Man — Irons Only — Jack and Jill — Joker Stableford — Joker's Wild — Knockout Stroke Play

L

Lagging — Last Man Standing — Legends — Let It Ride — Lone Ranger — Long and Short — Longest Yard — Low Ball-High Ball — Low Ball/Low Total — Low Putts — Luck of the Draw — Lucky Sevens

M

Man In the Box — Marshmallow Long Drive — Maxwell Format — Miami Scramble — Middle Twelves — Misery — Mix and Match — Moles — Money Ball — Mulligan and Recall (Mulligan/Recall) — Murphy (Murphies) — Mutt and Jeff

N - O

Nasties — Nicklauses — Nines — No Alibis — No Putts — N.O.S.E. — Odd Fellows — Odds and Evens — One-Person Captain's Choice — On In Two — Oozles and Foozles — Out-In-Total

P

Par Or Out — Patsome (Patsomes) — Perfecto — Pick Up Sticks — Pinnie (Pinnies) — Play It Again, Sam — Poker — Polee — Poley — Portuguese Caddie — Pro for Hire — Proxy Contest — Putt for Dough — Putting Syndicate (Putting Skins)

Q - R

Random Club Challenge — Ransom — Red Tee Rally — Red, White and Blue — Reverse Scramble — Ringer Score/Ringer Round — Ringer Tournament — Rotation — Round Robin — Russian Stableford

S

Savies — Scruffies — Scuffies — Second Chance — Selected Score — Seve (Seve's) — Shark (Sharkies) — Shazam — Shootout — Sixes — Six in 60 — Six-Point Game (6 Points) — Splashies — Split Sixes — St. Andrews Foursomes — Stealies — Strike Three — Stymies — Sucker in the Bucket — Supplemental Bets — Switch

T

T&F (T and F) — Taft System — T-E-N — Thirty Balls — Three In One — Three Blind Mice — Three Club Monte (3-Club Challenge) — Three Little Pigs — Three-Point Game — Three-Putt Poker — Threesomes — Three-Two — Tic-Tac-Toe — Tin Whistle — Tombstone — The Train — Trifecta — Triples — Trouble — Twelves (12-Point Game) — Two Clubs and a Putter

U - V - W - X - Y - Z

Uglies — Umbrella — Umbriago — Various Pars — Waltz — Whack and Hack — Win, Place and Show — Wolfman — Woodies — Woof Handicap — Worst Ball Scramble — Yellowsomes — Zookeeper

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