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Is gambling a big thing in your golf games?

Nassau, $5 front, $5 back, $10 overall, $5 for overall junk (greenies birdies sandies chip ins), automatic presses when 2 down. Average exchange is $10 and an ass kicking could get to $40 (rare). Not life changing money but it adds to the fun. Only with friends - never when paired up with strangers.

Biggest money games are usually member-guest tournaments when there is a Calcutta auction. Those can get get nutty. I view those as a built in cost of the weekend, so I don’t think of it as a bet per se. helps me not get too nervous over those short putts.
 
Nope. Every one I play with just plays for fun. We don’t play skins or anything like that. We do talk crap to each other but just good natured banter between friends. We also encourage each other too. For me, it’s more about just enjoying the game and company of good people.
 
Nassau, skins, wolf, press, I have no idea what any of it means, I have no interest in learning. I did play with a group once where everyone put in $5.00. I would like to have gave away my 5 at the start of the round but I didn’t know who to give it to. In the end I gave it to someone. Thank goodness it didn’t thrill me.
 
The group I play with at my club the last two years rarely gambles on the course. I had a regular money game at my last club in California but it was a scratch game with no handicaps which is the type of players I prefer to play with if money is on the line. When I was college age I gambled a lot on the course sometimes winning or losing over $100 which was a lot of money considering semester tuition at Wisconsin was $865 back then. The most I won golfing was $450.
 
I like having a few dollars on the game if for no other reason than to amp up the smack talk among friends.


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I have a regular playing partner. He is my cousin.
We play $5 for the front
$5 for the back
$10 total score.
never gamble with first time meets
 
The only thing I gamble on while golfing is whether my ball is going to make it over the water hazard or get wet. I don't gamble much and certainly not on my golf game.
 
That isn't why I play golf - the only time money is involved is with one of the weekly groups and it effectively costs the losing pair a drink

If I was put in a group with random people I didn't know, I would never play for money
 
Nonexistent. We just play to have fun and enjoy each other's company.
 
At a course I used to belong to we had several groups that would go off early every weekday. It seemed no matter who you played with a little something was always on the line. It was not an amount that would hurt anyone to lose. We used to play $.25/point wolf when we had fivesomes, and foursomes always played a round robin for $1 each so max loss was $3.00. Wolf could get a little expensive, comparably, if you had a really bad day or just unlucky in who you picked or got picked by. :giggle:
 
For me golfing is the gamble, mainly because the results is a loosing proposition. ;)
 
tahoebum said:
The group I play with at my club the last two years rarely gambles on the course. I had a regular money game at my last club in California but it was a scratch game with no handicaps which is the type of players I prefer to play with if money is on the line. When I was college age I gambled a lot on the course sometimes winning or losing over $100 which was a lot of money considering semester tuition at Wisconsin was $865 back then. The most I won golfing was $450.
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Where did you play out of in California? At 53, I'm still a gambling fool. Rarely play without a couple/few hundred in exposure. Like you, I prefer a "straight-up" scratch game, but in the circles I play with, sometimes I'm the worst player in the group as a +1/+2, so I'm no longer ashamed to take 1 a side from the elite mid-ams. :)
 
I think it depends on the crowd you golf with. When I was in a league, of course there were skins. In one league there was a group of guys who you might call gambling addicted! They had every sort of bet you can imagine going. I can remember one time playing with 3 of them. On the tee of a par 3, they waited until one of them was almost ready to make his swing to say, "5 bucks you don't hit the green!" This guys shoulders went up around his ears, then he turned and said, "Bet!" He flew one dead straight at the green, but he hit it too well. There's a false front, and the backspin pulled the ball into it, and off the front of the green it rolled!
 
Used to HATE playing for money. Anymore, can’t be bothered to play unless we have a match going with a few bucks on the line.

It keeps the game fresh for me especially as i am stuck in a rut where for most of this year i have been shooting the same score +\- 1 stroke.


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The only bet we make is whether or not one of our playing partners will show up more than 10 minutes before tee time. She buys the first round if she misses the 10 minute cut off.
 
I like it when there is something on the line. I don't like to get stupid about it. Doesn't matter if it's for $20.00, a beer at the end of the round or even a $2.00 bet. I hate paying up and I love the edge it brings to a game.

I'm never going to be one of those guys that plays for "something that will hurt". That's not fair to my wife. But, I do like the idea of not having to pay. :devilish:
 
robrandalgz said:
I like it when there is something on the line. I don't like to get stupid about it. Doesn't matter if it's for $20.00, a beer at the end of the round or even a $2.00 bet. I hate paying up and I love the edge it brings to a game.

I'm never going to be one of those guys that plays for "something that will hurt". That's not fair to my wife. But, I do like the idea of not having to pay. :devilish:
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I agree with you. I was playing casinos but when my city was quarantined I stopped doing it. 2 months ago, I decided to try out online casinos but unfortunately I couldn't find anything suitable on the Internet. After some time when I was browsing forums about blackjack, I found out one of the best online casino, if I'm not mistaken it is the most popular casino ever. I've been playing there for 3 weeks and everything is okay. I've never had any technical issues or issues with the players. I even managed to win some money from it.
 
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