Your favorite golf game

[paininthenuts]

Your favorite golf game please. I love a Texas scramble, or it may just be called a scramble in the U.S. For those who haven't played it, you go out in teams of 3 or four, and it is the teams that play each other. The drives have to be split as evenly as possible between you, an example being a 3 man team on 18 holes would involve each player having 6 drives each. Other than that the rule is that each player plays their ball from the best position of the previous shot. Of course, this means each round is normally played close to par. 

From a singles point of you, it has to be Stableford, as if you muck up a hole, your entire round isn't ruined. I detest medal play.

[boogielicious]

For me, it is match play. It is a game within the game if you finish out holes to also track strokes for your handicap. It changes the strategy of each hole depending on your opponent's position. 

[bkuehn1952]

2 hours ago, paininthenuts said:

Your favorite golf game please. 

If it is a scramble, a 2-person scramble is my preference.  Each player has to carry their own weight, typically.

A Nassau with a buddy is nice.  Match play for front, back and total.

[NJpatbee]

I enjoy an occasional Nassau without automatic presses.  In reality, just playing the game of golf is challenging and rewarding enough.

[paininthenuts]

1 hour ago, NJpatbee said:

I enjoy an occasional Nassau without automatic presses.  In reality, just playing the game of golf is challenging and rewarding enough.

What's that ?

 

[rehmwa]

I like the one where I play something like 18 holes and on each hole try to get the ball in the hole in the least number of strokes.

[Groucho Valentine]

I like a simple nassau or skins game. But Wolf is a lot of fun, too. 

[Patch]

I like that game "rehmwa" discribed above. Especially when it involves a childrens' charity of some sort. 

On another note, I like 3 club tournaments, as well as pitch, chip, and putt competitions. 

Edited July 6, 2016 by Patch

[NJpatbee]

30 minutes ago, paininthenuts said:

What's that ?

 

When playing a Nassau, if you are down more than 2 holes on a side (front or back) you can basically start another game starting on the next hole by pressing your opponent.  This can be a good strategy if you are playing well and are confident you can win the pressed game (there can be multiple) to recover from your losing game(s).  The press normally has to be accepted by your opponent. 

I have played at certain clubs which play "automatic press", which means every time you are down 2 holes you automatically press and your opponent has to accept.  If you are having a bad day, always pressing will likely force you to lose multiple bets that you have no choice on making.  I see it as a way for club members who know every blade of grass by name on the course to milk a non-member.  I still play at the couple of courses mentioned but refuse to play their version of the Nassau press. 

[Groucho Valentine]

31 minutes ago, paininthenuts said:

What's that ?

 

When a player or team two goes two holes down in the bet, it triggers a press. A press is a separate match bet on top of the original match. Say you go two down on the first 9 with 5 holes to go in a $2 Nassau with a friend. The automatic press triggers another match within those 5 holes. If you that seperate 5 hole match, you win the press. If you win the press, but lose the original bet, you break even. But if you win the original match and the press, you win double. Which would be $4 in this case. 

I use automatic presses as a tactic if I'm playing a guy i know i can take. I will purposely lose the first two holes to trigger it, then i have 7 holes to win both bets. I find automatic presses aren't too common for that reason, especially among better players. But its considered bad form to refuse a two down press if it is offered to the leading player(s). 

[roamin]

I can't bring myself to do anything but count all of the strokes. Have played skins a few times, and I like it because on a bad day, I can still win a few holes with good strategy and decision making, even against a (slighty) more skilled player. But around here, I've noticed the egos are still looking at total score after settling up on the bet.

[Club Rat]

I like a good partners "two-man" Nassau where the low score wins the hole, but when a hole is tied by opposing players, then the other players scores are counted.

I've never known for this format to have any specific name, but I like it better than using only a best ball format.

In my opinion, it keeps all players in the game, knowing they must at least beat their opponent, even if they make a bogey or worse sometimes.

It prevents the match from becoming strictly a competition between the two better players.

[DrvFrShow]

Match play. You can have a blow up hole and it doesn't kill you.

[Fourputt]

4 hours ago, NJpatbee said:

When playing a Nassau, if you are down more than 2 holes on a side (front or back) you can basically start another game starting on the next hole by pressing your opponent.  This can be a good strategy if you are playing well and are confident you can win the pressed game (there can be multiple) to recover from your losing game(s).  The press normally has to be accepted by your opponent. 

I have played at certain clubs which play "automatic press", which means every time you are down 2 holes you automatically press and your opponent has to accept.  If you are having a bad day, always pressing will likely force you to lose multiple bets that you have no choice on making.  I see it as a way for club members who know every blade of grass by name on the course to milk a non-member.  I still play at the couple of courses mentioned but refuse to play their version of the Nassau press. 

If you were playing well, you wouldn't be 2 down in the first place, would you?

4 hours ago, Groucho Valentine said:

When a player or team two goes two holes down in the bet, it triggers a press. A press is a separate match bet on top of the original match. Say you go two down on the first 9 with 5 holes to go in a $2 Nassau with a friend. The automatic press triggers another match within those 5 holes. If you that seperate 5 hole match, you win the press. If you win the press, but lose the original bet, you break even. But if you win the original match and the press, you win double. Which would be $4 in this case. 

I use automatic presses as a tactic if I'm playing a guy i know i can take. I will purposely lose the first two holes to trigger it, then i have 7 holes to win both bets. I find automatic presses aren't too common for that reason, especially among better players. But its considered bad form to refuse a two down press if it is offered to the leading player(s). 

So you're nothing more than a cheap hustler?  You are the reason I don't play for money with anyone I don't know.

I don't do presses, so it's irrelevant to me anyway.  I'm not sure that this is quite what the OP was asking for in the topic anyway (maybe I'm wrong).  I thought he was asking about playing format not money games.  

To that end, I like match play.  Either one on one, or fourball match play is the classic form of golf.  It's relaxing, faster to play if played traditionally, and the rules are far more relaxed because a player can choose to ignore his opponent's miscue if he wishes.  It can make for a far more friendly game, where one bad hole isn't the end of the competition, and there doesn't have to be anything on the line except a beer in the clubhouse afterward.

Like most Americans, I've played mostly stroke play my whole life, but when I get a chance to play a match I jump at it.

[Groucho Valentine]

2 minutes ago, Fourputt said:

If you were playing well, you wouldn't be 2 down in the first place, would you?

So you're nothing more than a cheap hustler?  You are the reason I don't play for money with anyone I don't know.

I don't do presses, so it's irrelevant to me anyway.  I'm not sure that this is quite what the OP was asking for in the topic anyway (maybe I'm wrong).  I thought he was asking about playing format not money games.  

To that end, I like match play.  Either one on one, or fourball match play is the classic form of golf.  It's relaxing, faster to play if played traditionally, and the rules are far more relaxed because a player can choose to ignore his opponent's miscue if he wishes.  It can make for a far more friendly game, where one bad hole isn't the end of the competition, and there doesn't have to be anything on the line except a beer in the clubhouse afterward.

Like most Americans, I've played mostly stroke play my whole life, but when I get a chance to play a match I jump at it.

So are you Statler or Waldorf? 

[Elrey Desol]

i enjoy "Snake" quite a bit:

on #9 and/or #18 the person who holes out last buys a round for the other players in the group. score on the hole doesn't matter, just who was last in.

[No Mulligans]

I've got three I like... Wolf, Stableford, and Match Play.

Wolf because it gives the weaker players a chance to do well if they pick partners well and are lucky.

Stableford and Match Play as it can be designed to keep the players in the game through most of the round.  For nine hole rounds I just have the points double on the last 4 holes.  For 18 hole rounds, I have the points double at hole 7 to 12 and triple for holes 13 to 18.

We also play "Hold the Money" as a secondary game.  This one is good as anyone can win who can putt reasonable well compared to the group (yes, the worse putter sometimes wins).  Hold the money, we each put in $2 to the pot which is small stakes (use any amount you want), the longest made putt/shot holds the money.  When that is beat, the money goes to the new longest made putt/shot.  

For example, on hole one say the longest is 6 feet, that player holds the money until someone holes out from more than 6 feet.  Say no one beats it until hole 4 where a player makes a 12 footer, the one who made the 12 footer now holds the money.  That continues with the money exchanging hands for each consecutive longer putt/shot made. Whoever holds the money at the end of the round keeps it.

[boogielicious]

16 hours ago, Groucho Valentine said:

So are you Statler or Waldorf? 

Well it is a "hustle" if the guy doesn't know you.