Game formats in golf have many different names. Sometimes a single format has many different names.
Below is a list of the most popular golf formats. 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 items are listed alphabetically. The description is displayed by clicking on the name.
- 1-Person Scramble
- 2‑Person Best Ball
- 4BBB
- 5-3-1
- 6-4-2-0
- 6-Point Game
- Alternate Shot
- Ambrose
- American Foursomes
- Baseball
- Best 2 of 4
- Best_Ball
- Best_Nines
- Better Ball
- Bingo Bango Bongo
- Bingle Bangle Bungle
- Bloodsomes
- Bogey Competition
- Canadian Foursomes
- Captain’s Choice
- Cats
- Chapman
- Cricket
- Criers and Whiners
- Dropout Scramble
- Eclectic
- English
- Flags
- Florida Scramble
- Four-Ball (Four Ball)
- Foursomes
- Greensomes
- Gruesomes
- Match Play
- Maximum Score
- Medal Play
- Nassau
- Nine Points
- Nines
- No Alibis
- One-Person Scramble
- Par/Bogey
- Par Competition
- Patsomes
- Pinehurst
- Play It Again Sam
- Portuguese Caddy
- Ringers
- Scotch Doubles
- Scotch Foursomes
- Scramble
- Shamble
- Single
- Single Person Scramble
- Skats
- Skins
- Split Sixes
- Stableford
- Stand Aside
- Stand Out
- Step Aside
- String
- Stringball
- Stroke Play
- Switch
- Syndicates
- Texas Scramble
- Texas Shamble
- Three-Ball (Three Ball)
- Threesomes
- Triples
- V-Par
- Wipe Out
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update: October 2024