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The Nines Game in Golf
Do you like to have a little competitive game when playing golf with your buddies?
We usually play a cart-to-cart match play format with the cumulative score for each two-man team deciding the outcome for each hole.
When one of us can’t play and we don’t get a fill-in, the three of us usually play the Nines Game.
Scoring For The Nines Game
In the Nines Game, every hole is worth 9 points and can only be played with three golfers. All three players get points for each hole, based on each player’s score. In our version of the game, we award extra bonus points too, just to make it more interesting.
If you are the only player to par a hole, you get 5 points for that hole. If someone else in your threesome also pars, you each get 4 points and the player with the higher score gets 1 point. That equals 9 points.
If all three players par the hole, each player gets 3 points for a total of 9 for that hole.
If you par a hole and one of the other players in your threesome gets a bogey and the third player gets a double-bogey, the scoring would be 5 points for you, 3 points for the bogey player, and 1 point for the double. That totals 9 points for that hole.
