Golf game formats

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-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

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

Skins

Split Sixes

Stableford

Stand Aside

Stand Out

Step Aside

String

Stringball

Stroke Play

Texas Scramble

Texas Shamble

Three-Ball (Three Ball)

Threesomes

V-Par

Wipe Out

 

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update: October 2024