gilagolf
13th June 2011, 03:38 AM
Just wondering what are the popular betting formats for a casual round of golf?
Over here in Malaysia, one of the most popular betting format is called, "3-1-1", which basically means 3 'balls' for game, 1 for dormie and 1 for the buy. Each "ball" is allocated a dollar amount. A normal amount would be $5. 3-1-1 is played over 9 holes. So when we have a four ball, we play a partnership, and play matchplay format, and we count at the end of the each nine the winner. So the total one can lose would be 10 balls (5 from each nine, i.e losing the game, dormie and buy, otherwise known as Fullhouse)
Most of the time, though, we use the same format and play 'Sixers', where we change partnership every 6 holes and play the 3-1-1 game in each partnership matchplay. In this case, the most I can lose would be 15 balls (5 balls from each matchplay game, over six holes). This is a lot more fun because games are shorter, and we get to swap partners and ride on the hot ones. There was once I shot 85 or something while the second best score was 94 or 95, and I lost the most $$$.
of course, we play fringes here as well, i.e bonuses where we get extra 1 ball for: escalation par, parring or better the par 3s and par 5s, birdies, sandy par, or whatever ad hoc rules we feel like putting, like closest to pin, longest drive etc.
Probably the other parts of the world you have another name for this kind of game.
Over here in Malaysia, one of the most popular betting format is called, "3-1-1", which basically means 3 'balls' for game, 1 for dormie and 1 for the buy. Each "ball" is allocated a dollar amount. A normal amount would be $5. 3-1-1 is played over 9 holes. So when we have a four ball, we play a partnership, and play matchplay format, and we count at the end of the each nine the winner. So the total one can lose would be 10 balls (5 from each nine, i.e losing the game, dormie and buy, otherwise known as Fullhouse)
Most of the time, though, we use the same format and play 'Sixers', where we change partnership every 6 holes and play the 3-1-1 game in each partnership matchplay. In this case, the most I can lose would be 15 balls (5 balls from each matchplay game, over six holes). This is a lot more fun because games are shorter, and we get to swap partners and ride on the hot ones. There was once I shot 85 or something while the second best score was 94 or 95, and I lost the most $$$.
of course, we play fringes here as well, i.e bonuses where we get extra 1 ball for: escalation par, parring or better the par 3s and par 5s, birdies, sandy par, or whatever ad hoc rules we feel like putting, like closest to pin, longest drive etc.
Probably the other parts of the world you have another name for this kind of game.