Golf games....

[Dabzy]

Apart from the obvious formats (stroke, stapleford and bogey), have you got a golf game you play occasionally when you fancy a change. I play a one I call Cricket, I actually invented it myself while having a lonesome practice round, I'll share it here, but, if you have a game, put it up! ;)

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Golf Cricket

Rules:-

The idea of cricket is to build a total of points throughout the round depending on how specific shots end up, other then how many strokes you play or how many shots it takes to hole out.

There are three area's of scoring; tee, approach (GIR) and putt.

As an example, if you tee off and make the fairway, you receive a point, like wise, if you hit the green in regulation, you receive a point, as well as if you make a one putt on the putting green, you receive a point too… In total, you can accumulate 3 points per hole. On the other hand, there are scenarios where you can lose a point on each of the specific shots (e.g. landing in a bunker), as well as not scoring, but not losing points too (e.g. holing out with two putts)

Scoring:-

Like I mentioned, scoring is based on how your ball ends up after taking a shot (When the ball is finally at rest), below outlines each specific shot you can, what points you can gain, what points you can lose, as well neutral shots)

TEE - When you tee off, if your ball comes to rest on the fairway, you gain a point, if your ball doesn't land on the fairway and doesn't end up in a hazard (Water or bunker), then, you don't gain a point, but then don't lose a point. If your ball lands in a hazard (Water or bunker) or goes out of bounds, then you lose a point.

APPROACH (GIR) - If you land on the green within regulation (e.g you get to the par-4 green in 2 shots), you receive a point, if your ball doesn't land on the green or a hazard (Water or bunker), you don't gain a point, but then don't lose a point. If your ball lands in a hazard (Water or bunker) or goes out of bounds, then you lose a point.

PUTTING - If you hole out with one putt (Or chipped in from off the green), you receive a point, if you hole out with two putts, you don't gain a point, but then don't lose a point, if you hole out with 3+ putts, you lose a point.

The minimum total score between holes can not be less then 0 (No minus), though, during play of a hole, if your total score at that time is 2, and you have -3 for the last  hole, your total score before teeing off in the next hole returns to 0, not -1 (But this can be changed, personal preference)

All balls must be played as they lie, and the first shot of any attempt to score is the one that counts, so, if you tee off and put a ball out of bounds, then take another tee shot and it lands on the fairway, you don't receive a point, likewise, if you put a ball in the bunker, you wont lose a shot, the shot is only played on the preference that you need a ball in play to score on the next scoring attempt. If you land in a water hazard, and drop the ball, this will not ruin your chance of scoring on your next shot.

If there's no distinguishable boundary between lies, e.g. fairway->first cut of rough or fairway->green, then, the playing group must agree if it is deemed to be on a specific lie or not, if the group cannot decide, then, it is deemed to be a none scoring shot (sportsmanship is key here)

The green is also deemed to be fairway, so, if, on a par 3, you hit the green on your tee shot, you've actually hit the fairway and got to the green in regulation, which results in two shots, like wise for reachable par 4's. So with that, a hole in one will automatically acquire you 3 points from the tee.

If during approaching the green, and you land in a hazard (water or bunker), then that is the end of your scoring for the approach section of play, regardless if you can still make the green in regulation, so, if you end up in a bunker on your second shot on a Par 5, then flick it onto the green in regulation, you will not receive a point for getting there because that scoring attempt has gone, so, if your playing this game, lay up!

All main golf rules apply, for any breach of golf rules, points are deducted from your score as if they were penalty strokes, so, standing on your ball will result in you losing one point from your total when you hole out.

If anyone plays it, let me know what you think, and if you've got any games to play out there, let me know! ;)

Dabz

[Dabzy]

Oh, forgot to mention, you can apply handicaps to this as usual, if you have an extra shot on say, a par-4, then, GIR will be 3 hots, I would recommend handicaps are calculated as 1/4 of a handicap is dropped.

Dabz

[Fourputt]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dabzy

Apart from the obvious formats (stroke, stapleford and bogey), have you got a golf game you play occasionally when you fancy a change. I play a one I call Cricket, I actually invented it myself while having a lonesome practice round, I'll share it here, but, if you have a game, put it up! ;)

Quote:

Golf Cricket

Rules:-

The idea of cricket is to build a total of points throughout the round depending on how specific shots end up, other then how many strokes you play or how many shots it takes to hole out.

There are three area's of scoring; tee, approach (GIR) and putt.

As an example, if you tee off and make the fairway, you receive a point, like wise, if you hit the green in regulation, you receive a point, as well as if you make a one putt on the putting green, you receive a point too… In total, you can accumulate 3 points per hole. On the other hand, there are scenarios where you can lose a point on each of the specific shots (e.g. landing in a bunker), as well as not scoring, but not losing points too (e.g. holing out with two putts)

Scoring:-

Like I mentioned, scoring is based on how your ball ends up after taking a shot (When the ball is finally at rest), below outlines each specific shot you can, what points you can gain, what points you can lose, as well neutral shots)

TEE - When you tee off, if your ball comes to rest on the fairway, you gain a point, if your ball doesn't land on the fairway and doesn't end up in a hazard (Water or bunker), then, you don't gain a point, but then don't lose a point. If your ball lands in a hazard (Water or bunker) or goes out of bounds, then you lose a point.

APPROACH (GIR) - If you land on the green within regulation (e.g you get to the par-4 green in 2 shots), you receive a point, if your ball doesn't land on the green or a hazard (Water or bunker), you don't gain a point, but then don't lose a point. If your ball lands in a hazard (Water or bunker) or goes out of bounds, then you lose a point.

PUTTING - If you hole out with one putt (Or chipped in from off the green), you receive a point, if you hole out with two putts, you don't gain a point, but then don't lose a point, if you hole out with 3+ putts, you lose a point.

The minimum total score between holes can not be less then 0 (No minus), though, during play of a hole, if your total score at that time is 2, and you have -3 for the last  hole, your total score before teeing off in the next hole returns to 0, not -1 (But this can be changed, personal preference)

All balls must be played as they lie, and the first shot of any attempt to score is the one that counts, so, if you tee off and put a ball out of bounds, then take another tee shot and it lands on the fairway, you don't receive a point, likewise, if you put a ball in the bunker, you wont lose a shot, the shot is only played on the preference that you need a ball in play to score on the next scoring attempt. If you land in a water hazard, and drop the ball, this will not ruin your chance of scoring on your next shot.

If there's no distinguishable boundary between lies, e.g. fairway->first cut of rough or fairway->green, then, the playing group must agree if it is deemed to be on a specific lie or not, if the group cannot decide, then, it is deemed to be a none scoring shot (sportsmanship is key here)

The green is also deemed to be fairway, so, if, on a par 3, you hit the green on your tee shot, you've actually hit the fairway and got to the green in regulation, which results in two shots, like wise for reachable par 4's. So with that, a hole in one will automatically acquire you 3 points from the tee.

If during approaching the green, and you land in a hazard (water or bunker), then that is the end of your scoring for the approach section of play, regardless if you can still make the green in regulation, so, if you end up in a bunker on your second shot on a Par 5, then flick it onto the green in regulation, you will not receive a point for getting there because that scoring attempt has gone, so, if your playing this game, lay up!

All main golf rules apply, for any breach of golf rules, points are deducted from your score as if they were penalty strokes, so, standing on your ball will result in you losing one point from your total when you hole out.

If anyone plays it, let me know what you think, and if you've got any games to play out there, let me know! ;)

Dabz

Dabz:

Here's something more you can add to it.  I got this from a play mode called Hazard Golf created for the Links 2003 computer golf game.  We played it for ridiculous amounts of virtual money, but assigning point values works too.  Basically you lose points for poor shots, but can earn them back with interest for making a good recovery.  Negative scoring events would be missing the fairway, missing the green, hitting a tree, hitting into sand, hitting into water.  Positive events are hitting the fairway, hitting the green in regulation, making par, making birdie, making eagle, making par or better after hitting a tree, making par or better after hitting into the sand, making par or better after hitting into the water, etc.  You can work out the point values that you find the most fun, generally a higher reward for a more difficult recovery.

Example:

Tee shot misses fairway: -1

Approach misses green: -1

Chip up and make par: +3

Make Par: +1

Total for hole: +3

If you had:

Hit fairway off tee:  +1

Hit green in regulation: +1

Made Par: +1

Total for hole +3

It works using handicaps too.  Make bogey on a handicap hole and you get the scoring for a par.

Just a suggestion anyway.  Lots of fun things you can do with your general idea.

[Pappy091]

My buddies and I play Wolf a lot of the time. It's a fun game to play when you want to put some money on the line.

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Definition: Wolf is a betting game or points game for a group of four golfers.

Players rotate being the "Wolf." The player designated as the "Wolf" on a hole gets to choose whether to play the hole 1-vs.-3 (himself against the other three players in the group) or 2-vs.-2.

And if the Wolf chooses to play 2-on-2, he must choose his partner immediately following that player's drive. Example: Player A is the Wolf. Player B hits a bad drive. Player C hits a pretty good drive. If the Wolf wants C as a partner, he must claim his partner before Player D tees off.

The side with the lowest better ball score wins the hole. If it's 2-on-2, then the winning side wins the bet. If it's 1-on-3, the Wolf wins double or loses double.

There's also Lone Wolf, in which the Wolf announces before anyone tees off - including himself - that he's going it alone, 1-on-3. On a Lone Wolf hole, the Wolf wins triple or loses triple.

[Dabzy]

Ah, cool, yeah, thinking about it, its pretty flexible for that, I suppose you could jiggle it for any type of scenerio, nice idea, you could even implement a bonus point for getting all three "challenges"! ;)

lol, I should of called it Challenge Golf, but, I play a lot variations of sports thats named after other sports (I'm quite partial to a game of golf on a dartboard too, lol)

As I said, I started manifesting the rules as I was going around by myself, it sort of helped me tune into a shot rather then just going around whacking the ball willy nilly! :D

Dabz

[Dabzy]

That's a good'un Pappy matey, will have to remember that when we're out and I'm with other betting minded players... See if I can get myself enough pennies for some Pro V1's! ;)

Dabz

[Fourputt]

Originally Posted by Dabzy

Ah, cool, yeah, thinking about it, its pretty flexible for that, I suppose you could jiggle it for any type of scenerio, nice idea, you could even implement a bonus point for getting all three "challenges"! ;)

lol, I should of called it Challenge Golf, but, I play a lot variations of sports thats named after other sports (I'm quite partial to a game of golf on a dartboard too, lol)

As I said, I started manifesting the rules as I was going around by myself, it sort of helped me tune into a shot rather then just going around whacking the ball willy nilly! :D

Dabz

Another thing that might help with the focus on performance might be to have a bonus point for playing the hole as intended.  Basically a better reward for never being in trouble, but with a point structure that still lets you gain some points when you manage to recover from trouble.

[geauxforbroke]

Check out this thread , there are some good ideas for games to play.