Looking for the perfect gambling game for you and your buddies on the course? Here at GolfWRX, we’ve put together this list of games to use for those who want to spice up their day out.

Here’s 8 games for everyone to try and win some cash, whether big or small, on the course.

1. Vegas

Players required: 4

Good for: High rollers

How to play: Two pairings go head to head (matchplay) with the scores from each player in the same pairing combined uniquely. If both players scored a five on the hole, then their score for the hole would be 55. If one scores a three and the other a five, then their score would be 35 (lower of the two scores placed first).

2. Snake

Players required: 2+

Good for: Players who want to improve their putting

How to play: In Snake, no gimmes are allowed, and anytime a player three-putts or worse, a specific amount of money (assigned by the group at the beginning of the round) gets added to the pot. Throughout the round, the cash keeps accumulating, and the last player to three-putt pays the other players in the group that amount.  

3. Bounce Back

Players required: 2+

Good for: Higher handicap players/Volatile golfers

How to play: In Bounce Back, players earn a point by following a double bogey or worse with a par or better. However, should a player follow a double bogey or worse with another then they will lose a point.

4. Rabbit

Players required: 2+

Good for: All golfers

How to play: Everyone knows the game ‘Tag’, and Rabbit is essentially the same concept. A pot amount is decided at the beginning of the round, and the first player in the group to win a hole becomes the Rabbit, with the next person to win a subsequent hole then becoming the Rabbit. Whoever the Rabbit is after the final hole takes the pot.

5. Bingo, Bango, Bongo

Players required: 2+

Good for: Players with different strengths

How to play: The three-part game works as follows:

• Bingo: The first player in the group to hit their ball on the green.
• Bango: The player in the group whose golf ball is closest to the pin after all the golf balls are on the green.
• Bongo: The first player in the group to hole out.

One point is awarded for each part and tallied after each hole. At the end of the round, the person with the most points takes home the pot (decided at the beginning of the round).

6. Nassau

Players required: 2+

Good for: Maintaining interest throughout the round

How to play: Players play three contests – ‘Front 9 winner’, ‘Back 9 winner’ and ’18 hole winner’. Each contest can either be strokeplay or matchplay.

7. Wolf

Players required: 4

Good for: Course strategy

How to play: At the beginning of the round, it is decided who will open as the ‘Wolf’, a role which will then alternate between the four players after each hole.

After players tee off on the hole, the wolf on the hole can choose a partner or choose to play alone for that hole. Should the wolf or the partner win that hole, then both players will be awarded two points. If the wolf and their partner lose, then the other two members receive three points. Should the ‘lone wolf’ beat the other three players on that hole then the wolf wins four points. Any player who overcomes a lone wolf on the hole is awarded one point.

8. Strike Three

Players required: 2+

Good for: High-handicappers 

How to play: Players take the best 15 holes from their round and throw away their three worst, with the winner being the person with the lowest cumulative total.