The way I have done it and the way I think it goes: we have 20 people all playing skins. At the end, we would compare scorecards. Typically, scorecard 1 will say hole 1 we had a net birdie and scorecard 2 and 3 say net par and scorecard 4 says net birdie so no skin there. You keep going through each hole until there is one person that wins a hole.
so let’s say everyone puts $10 into the skin pot, there is $200 in the pot. After the scorecards are figured up, if there were 4 skins won, each is worth $50. If two skins were won, each was worth $100.
it may be done different in this league, but that is how we have done skins. And I believe Chris said to start that we will only be doing net skins. When we get larger, we may split skins into net and gross. When you do it that way, if every player puts in $10, $5 goes to the net and $5 goes to the gross skins and you figure it the same way.
In a 20 person skin game that is only net, the higher handicaps have a slight advantage. Of course when I say that, Chris will go out and have 4 natural birdies and win a few skins. Net bird is usually what it takes to win; sometimes net pars, but it is rare in a 20 person skin game. That is why Chris said no gimmees on net pars or better: to protect the field.
Edit: I have only seen it where no one won a skin once. In that case, we carried the pot over, but you can always just give the pot to whoever won the hardest hole.
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