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I never play competitive golf in any official capacity. Many years back (way back) we use to play friendly match for a buck a hole with my brother-in-law and a couple other close friends. I don't recall if it was skins or not. To be honest , I recall never really caring much if I won or not but only whether or not I played well.
FF decades to the other day we were a 3some of singles. I did play with one of these guys a couple of times before as singles so was a bit familiar with him. And so he decided with 5 holes left that he wanted to play a friendly buck per hole. He just said he wanted to concentrate better and didn't want non golf talk to distract him. A little story there but I wont get into that.
So anyway he asks if we want to play for a buck per hole for the final 5.So the other player said sure, and I figure what the heck, why not have some fun. And so he wins 14 for our first hole. I win 15, I win 16. Then we tie 17. Mind you Im not really paying too much mind to the whole thing and was just happy I played well during the stretch. And so we get on 18 and he mentions "this is worth 2 holes". That didn't really sink in to my head and I really gave little thought at all to what he meant. As said I never do these kinds of things so Im somewhat ignorant of it. Plus it was nothing but just little firendly fun imo so gave it no thought.
And so he then wins 18 as I had a terrible hole. I thought....well ok, for the 5 holes, I won 2 , he won 2 and we tied 1 so we are even and the third player lost all 5. He says he won3 because the tie on 17 was a skin and carried to 18. I don't care to any degree of great concern except to know that I didn't really get the situation and so he explained. Easy of course to understand. And also I only then now knew what he meant when he mentioned it was worth 2 holes while on the 18th tee.
And we didn't even take the money from the younger fellow who lost all 5. But it got me thinking, and if this were an 18 hole match with more significant possible dollars at steak, is skins normally assumed or is this something one is suppose to mention up front. The only thing he ever said at the beginning was "do you want to play a buck per hole?" and mentioned nothing else. Only after playing 18 did I come to find out he won 3 due the skin because the whole time I thought we tied 2-2-1.
When someone asks to play a buck per hole, is skins normally assumed unless dictated the other way? Or is straight up match with halves normally assumed unless skins is dictated up front? I just wanted to know in case this ever happens again with or even without him.
FF decades to the other day we were a 3some of singles. I did play with one of these guys a couple of times before as singles so was a bit familiar with him. And so he decided with 5 holes left that he wanted to play a friendly buck per hole. He just said he wanted to concentrate better and didn't want non golf talk to distract him. A little story there but I wont get into that.
So anyway he asks if we want to play for a buck per hole for the final 5.So the other player said sure, and I figure what the heck, why not have some fun. And so he wins 14 for our first hole. I win 15, I win 16. Then we tie 17. Mind you Im not really paying too much mind to the whole thing and was just happy I played well during the stretch. And so we get on 18 and he mentions "this is worth 2 holes". That didn't really sink in to my head and I really gave little thought at all to what he meant. As said I never do these kinds of things so Im somewhat ignorant of it. Plus it was nothing but just little firendly fun imo so gave it no thought.
And so he then wins 18 as I had a terrible hole. I thought....well ok, for the 5 holes, I won 2 , he won 2 and we tied 1 so we are even and the third player lost all 5. He says he won3 because the tie on 17 was a skin and carried to 18. I don't care to any degree of great concern except to know that I didn't really get the situation and so he explained. Easy of course to understand. And also I only then now knew what he meant when he mentioned it was worth 2 holes while on the 18th tee.
And we didn't even take the money from the younger fellow who lost all 5. But it got me thinking, and if this were an 18 hole match with more significant possible dollars at steak, is skins normally assumed or is this something one is suppose to mention up front. The only thing he ever said at the beginning was "do you want to play a buck per hole?" and mentioned nothing else. Only after playing 18 did I come to find out he won 3 due the skin because the whole time I thought we tied 2-2-1.
When someone asks to play a buck per hole, is skins normally assumed unless dictated the other way? Or is straight up match with halves normally assumed unless skins is dictated up front? I just wanted to know in case this ever happens again with or even without him.