Betting Games Playbook

Every golf site has the same twelve games. This has 119.

Nassau, Skins, Wolf, Vegas — and Nines, Acey Deucey, Banker, Defender, Bag Raid, Stringball, Golf Poker, Bogey Tax, Split Sixes, Umbriago, and about a hundred more your group has never heard of. Sorted by how many of you there are, so you find one on the tee in ten seconds.

Then the part no other golf book bothers with: the money.

There's one formula that replaces the scribbled matrix on the back of a scorecard and settles a foursome in two payments instead of six. There's the fact that in a points game you break even at the group average, not at zero — which is why somebody can beat his quota and still owe money, and why nobody can ever explain it in the car park.

And there's a fully worked $5 Nassau with automatic presses that settles for $50 — from a round where the guy won two holes and halved five. Worst case on that same $5 game is $95. The book shows you the arithmetic and four ways to cap it before you agree to it.

Also in the 79 pages:

• Every WHS handicap allowance in one table — including the 2024 rounding change most clubs never made, which quietly costs three of four players a stroke
• Seven printable scorecards — Wolf, Skins, Nines, points games, a dots tally, a Nassau press ledger, and a settlement worksheet
• A house-rules sheet you fill in once with your regular group and keep in the bag
• A pick-a-game table for when the field is mixed, slow, bored, or broke
• Chapters for two players, three, four, a full outing, and a buddies trip

Straight Up. Half these games are played three different ways in three different states. Where the sources genuinely disagree, this book says so and gives you both versions instead of quietly picking one and letting you find out on the twelfth.

Instant PDF download. Yours to keep, print the scorecards as often as you like, and every update lands in your inbox for nothing.

Short version, if you want one for the product tagline:

119 golf betting games in 79 pages — plus the handicap tables, the settlement math, and printable scorecards for the cart.