Game formats in golf have many different names.
Below is a list of the names of over 50 of the most popular golf formats. Many of them are known by many different local names, making the list much longer. The list includes both the “official” formats listed in the R&A and USGA publications, as well as the more social and betting formats.
The names are listed alphabetically. The description is displayed by clicking the name.
- 1-2-3 Best Ball
- 1-Person Scramble
- 2‑Person Best Ball
- 4BBB
- 4-Man Cha Cha Cha
- 5-3-1
- 6-4-2-0
- 6-Point Game
- Alternate Shot
- Ambrose
- American Foursomes
- Arizona Shuffle
- Baseball
- Best 2 of 4
- Best_Ball
- Best (X) Holes
- Best_Nines
- Better Ball
- Bingo Bango Bongo
- Bingle Bangle Bungle
- Bizzaro Scramble
- Blind_Bet
- Blind_Holes
- Blind_Nine
- Bloodsome Scramble
- Bloodsomes
- Bogey Competition
- Bramble
- Canadian Foursomes
- Captain’s Choice
- Cats
- Chapman
- Cricket
- Criers and Whiners
- Dropout Scramble
- Eclectic
- English
- Flags
- Florida Scramble
- Four-Ball (Four Ball)
- Foursomes
- Gravestone
- Greensomes
- Gruesomes
- Hidden Nine
- If Only
- Irish_Four Ball
- Irish_Match Play
- Irish_Stableford
- Match Play
- Maximum Score
- Medal Play
- Modified Stableford
- Multiplier Stableford
- Mystery Nine
- Nassau
- Next Ball
- Nine Points
- Nines
- No Alibis
- Odd Fellows
- One-Person Scramble
- Opposite Scramble
- Par/Bogey
- Par Competition
- Patsomes
- Pinehurst
- Play It Again Sam
- Portuguese Caddy
- Random Tee Challenge
- Red Light
- Reverse Scramble
- Ringers
- Russian Stableford
- Scotch Doubles
- Scotch Foursomes
- Scramble
- Second Ball
- Second Best
- Secret Nine
- Shamble
- Single
- Single Person Scramble
- Skats
- Skins
- Split Sixes
- Stableford
- Stand Aside
- Stand Out
- Step Aside
- String
- Strike Three
- Stringball
- Stroke Play
- Surprise Nine
- Switch
- Syndicates
- Tee Box Draw
- Tee Box Lottery
- Texas Scramble
- Texas Shamble
- Three-Ball (Three Ball)
- Threesomes
- Tombstone
- Triples
- Throw Out (X holes)
- V-Par
- Wipe Out
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update: August 2025