Any golfers out there?

[victorl]

I stumbled on a nice little snooker pub today and had a blast playing on some beautiful 6 x 12's for the first time in years. I mentioned to them that I used to play a lot of golf on the snooker table when I lived in Canada and they happened to have a set of numbered balls and even pins to put on the spots! I showed them how to play and they really took to it and soon we had everyone in the room all playing on the same table.
There are just one small rule that I couldn't remember for the life of me and just want to ask if anyone can help me out (I know the rules vary a lot by area).
We spot the object balls on the black spot but when that is taken, where do you spot? (The other spots are all occupied by pins)

Thanks!
Vic

 

[tproctor]

Around here, if the spot is taken, the next ball spots directly behind and touching the ball on the spot.

 

[Celtic]

Golf is a phenomenal game, and highly addicting to gamble in it. It is like multi-player 1-pocket with WAY faster action and the ability to lose and win insane amounts of money depending on how ruthless the rules on fouls are.

If they ever put even one 6x12 table into the Derby City Classic and got a golf game going that game would take off and you would have a list of names on the waiting list to get in the game a mile long.

There is no game more fun to gamble in then golf, no game on a pool table really comes close TBH.

 

[victorl]

Agreed Celtic, golf is such a great game. Some of the shots that golfers play are just amazing, often requiring control of the cue ball, object ball, AND the opponents balls all in one shot.

When I was younger, I took many beatings playing with hardened golfers. I learned to play smart and keep a low profile becuase those guys were ruthless!

 

[Celtic]

When I was younger, I took many beatings playing with hardened golfers. I learned to play smart and keep a low profile becuase those guys were ruthless!

That is one of the major hurdles for golf, it can be a VERY expensive game to learn. Calgary had a fairly regular $0.50 a stroke golf game that used to go once a week that I watched and eventually tried to play in, I got lucky to come out after 12 holes having only lost about $40 but the ability to lose hundreds in a game like that is definitely there.

A DCC stream of some of the biggest gamblers out there playing a $10/stroke golf game would be an amazing thing to watch.

 

[pt109]

That is one of the major hurdles for golf, it can be a VERY expensive game to learn. Calgary had a fairly regular $0.50 a stroke golf game that used to go once a week that I watched and eventually tried to play in, I got lucky to come out after 12 holes having only lost about $40 but the ability to lose hundreds in a game like that is definitely there.

A DCC stream of some of the biggest gamblers out there playing a $10/stroke golf game would be an amazing thing to watch.

That golf game in Calgary had probably the best in the world.
And once in a while, they would have a $5 a stroke game....in the 70s, big money.
Players would fly in for it.

But Mikkelsen made them tired of golf....man had a built in GPS.

pt.....hates golf....doesn't mind watching

 

[Sealegs50]

We also used to play golf on a snooker table in the 80's, but we never played with pins. How are they used?

 

[Celtic]

We also used to play golf on a snooker table in the 80's, but we never played with pins. How are they used?

They are obstacles. If you knock down pins it costs you strokes. You can get hooked behind them and be forced to kick, your personal object ball might get bumped close to them and make hitting it without knocking down pins extremely tough, ect... The more pins you play with the harder it gets and the more dangerous shots become.

Each pin can cost you X number of strokes so lets say they make pins worth 5 strokes if you knock them down, you blow a shot and knock down 4 pins, that is 20 strokes. Now if there are 6 players in the game that means you just lost 20 strokes to each of those players and in effect just lost 100 strokes worth of money (the 5 remaining players times the 20 strokes). At $0.50 a stroke that shot cost you $50, at $10 a stroke it would cost you $1000 for blowing that single shot.

In Calgary we used red snooker balls in the place of pins. The game was played with snooker sized pool balls where your 2 personal balls (your cueball and your object ball) would be the 1 and 9, or 2 and 10, or 3 and 11, ect...) The red balls would be obstacles that you could not hit or they would cost you strokes.