Batter's Box - a Simple Game for 3 or 4

[iacas]

Yesterday I came up with a game we could play where it was competitive without being quite so head-to-head. You can play it net or gross, of course, or 50% handicap net, or whatever you think is fair…

On the first hole, spin a tee and assign holes 1-3 or holes 1-4 to everyone in your group. If Natalie is hole 1, Erik is hole 2, and Pete is hole 3… and the order repeats throughout the round (so Natalie is 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, and 16). Those are your "scoring" holes. If you have a foursome, the last two holes are set aside as "free-for-all" holes.

On your scoring holes…

• Eagle - 4 points
• Birdie - 2 points
• Par - 1 point
• Bogey - 0 points
• Double or worse - Lose all points accumulated thus far.

If the points are a dollar, you can win a dollar if you par (or net par) your hole. If you play your holes at par (1), par (1), birdie (2), bogey (0), bogey (0), you've won four points. The other two players owe you $4 or whatever.

If you have a foursome, the last two holes are free-for-alls: you can award points to anyone achieving those two scores. You could also play holes 1-15 in a threesome with the last three holes being free-for-alls.

In addition, you can play that any time someone makes a birdie or an eagle, they get the points above, even if it's not on their hole.

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If I had to come up with a name, I'd call it like "Batter's Box" or "On Stage" because at various times, different people are "up."

Anyway, just a thought on how you could have a game where you're not actually playing against other people as much as playing with them, but where you can still take some money off of your buddies by your good play.