SunnyDaze
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What kind of games (money games) do people play? I golf regularly with a group of guys. We usually have between 6 and 10 guys show up, and we have a standard game. Everyone puts in $15, and we track "dots", skins, and net total scores. Dots are awarded for such things as: sand saves for par or better, closest on a par 3 in regulation and backed up by no more than a 2-putt (par or birdie), natural birdies, natural eagles (worth 2 dots), and no-putt pars (or better). Skins are calculated using handicaps, and we play off the lowest handicap (usually me, with a 5). We pay out for low net, 2nd low net, and 3rd low net.
The payout money is divided 1/3 for dots, 1/3 for skins, and 1/3 for the nets. Everything collected gets paid out the same day.
We have this all put into an Excel file so we just have to enter everyones scores when we are done, and with the wonders of Excel it just tells us how much everyone gets back. This is really a lot of fun, and everyone comes out at the end of the year pretty even. It does not seem to favor the low or the high handicappers (after looking at the results for all of last year). As the low handicap golfer in the group, I ended up just +$2 for the year; the least lucky was out of pocket $110 (a 7 handicap), and the luckiest was up just over $100 (a 10 handicap); most players were within about $40 of getting their money back for the year. So - not a lot of money changes hands overall, but we have a lot of fun with it every weekend.
Sometimes we also have some side games within the foresomes, simple stuff like lefty/righty where the 2 players on the left off the tee play the two players on the right each hole for low net scores, and we have a rule that no one can end up out of pocket more than $20 for the day (none of us are rich, and we want this to be fun - after all it's just about beating the other guys!). The handicaps run from my 5 to a 23, with most in the mid teens.
What kinds of games do the rest of you play?
The payout money is divided 1/3 for dots, 1/3 for skins, and 1/3 for the nets. Everything collected gets paid out the same day.
We have this all put into an Excel file so we just have to enter everyones scores when we are done, and with the wonders of Excel it just tells us how much everyone gets back. This is really a lot of fun, and everyone comes out at the end of the year pretty even. It does not seem to favor the low or the high handicappers (after looking at the results for all of last year). As the low handicap golfer in the group, I ended up just +$2 for the year; the least lucky was out of pocket $110 (a 7 handicap), and the luckiest was up just over $100 (a 10 handicap); most players were within about $40 of getting their money back for the year. So - not a lot of money changes hands overall, but we have a lot of fun with it every weekend.
Sometimes we also have some side games within the foresomes, simple stuff like lefty/righty where the 2 players on the left off the tee play the two players on the right each hole for low net scores, and we have a rule that no one can end up out of pocket more than $20 for the day (none of us are rich, and we want this to be fun - after all it's just about beating the other guys!). The handicaps run from my 5 to a 23, with most in the mid teens.
What kinds of games do the rest of you play?