Overview
Two teams, everyone plays their own ball, and the team takes its best score on each hole. Teams of three or four can count the best two scores instead, added up.
Teams
Two teams the same size: 2 v 2, 3 v 3 or 4 v 4. Enter every player’s score; the app picks the ones that count and tags them.
The bets
- Nassau (the usual): three bets, the front 9, the back 9 and the total 18. Playing nine? The first 4, the last 5 and all 9.
- One bet: one bet on the whole round.
- Per hole: every hole your team wins pays the bet. A halved hole pays nothing.
Match or stroke play
- Match play: the lower team score wins the hole, and the team that wins more holes wins the bet.
- Stroke play: add up the team score on every hole. The lower total wins the bet; a tie pays nothing.
Pressing
In match play a team that’s 2 down (or whatever your group set) can press: a new bet from the next hole to the end of that leg. Press at the turn and no press on the last hole work as in Nassau. Stroke play and per hole have no presses.
Money
Each player on the winning team wins the bet from the other team, so in 2 v 2 at $5 it’s $5 each way. A bet that isn’t finished when the round stops pays whoever leads it on the holes played.
Net or gross
With handicaps on, strokes come off the low player on the hardest holes. Turn handicaps off to play gross.
If someone leaves
Their partners carry on for the team. A team that can’t make enough scores for a hole doesn’t play it, and the bets stand as they are.
Low ball and low total
A house rule for per hole bets, off unless you turn it on: two points a hole. One goes to the team with the best score, the other to the lower team total, everyone’s net added up. Each point pays the bet; a tie, and nobody gets that one. A 3 and a 6 (9) win low ball against a 4 and a 4 (8), and lose low total.
Handicaps
The WHS allowance for best ball is 90% of each player’s handicap as a match and 85% as stroke play. With teams of three or four it’s 75% counting the best one and 85% counting the best two. Setup suggests the right one.