Side Bets & Junk · Betting Games
Also called Card Golf
Earn playing cards for on-course feats and show the best five-card hand at the end.
Bring a deck. Agree which achievements deal a card: one-putts, birdies, sandies, up-and-downs, fairways hit and so on. Each time a player earns one they draw a card blind from the deck. After 18 holes each player makes the best five-card poker hand from their stack; best hand wins the pot.
Winner takes an agreed pot or is paid a set amount by each player. More cards mean more chances, but luck lets a high handicapper win.
Skill earns the cards but the deck decides the money.
Each link opens every game that works for that number of players.
Also called Dots (Junk / Garbage / Trash), Trash, Dot Game
Umbrella game that bundles many achievement bets into points ('dots') settled at the end.
Also called Greeny, Closest to the Pin, KP
Hit the green in regulation (usually closest on a par 3) and keep it with a two-putt.
Also called Sandy, Sand Save, Super Sandie
Make par or better on a hole where you were in a bunker.
Also called Palmers, Seves
Make par on a par 4 or par 5 without ever touching the fairway.
Rules reflect the version most groups play, cross-checked across these sources. House rules vary; agree yours on the first tee.
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