Golf on a snooker table

mullyman

mullyman

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It's been decades since I last played golf. The owner of the room I go to is getting a snooker table. I'd like to teach the ring game guys how to play golf. If someone could lay out the way to play and the rules.....and how you bet, that would be great.
MULLY
 
-Draw pill for order
-Put your ball on the foot spot
-"break" from inside the "D"
-Hole #1 is the hole nearest to you on the right
-The "out" hole (#6) is the side pocket to the right
-If you don't hit your ball first and drive something to a rail it is a foul
-The penalty for a foul is that your ball is removed from the table, cue ball does not get moved. Upon your next turn to the table your ball is returned to the foot spot.
-If you do not make contact with your ball, but move another with your shot, the owner of the moved ball has the option to return the ball or to leave it at its new location.
-Cue ball scratch is played from inside the "D"; if your ball is also inside the "D" you may not strike it directly (similar to "kitchen")
-After pocketing a ball, or returning from a foul, if the foot spot is occupied, your ball is spotted on the (1) center spot, (2) head spot, (3) RH "D" corner spot, (4) LH "D" corner spot, (5+) I don't know

$$Price.
Typically there is a payout to the winner (first to pocket his ball into the 6th hole; or "out" hole). In addition, each foul is monetarily penilized with "hickeys". Contacting your ball first and scratching or not driving a rail is worth 1 hickey, a "whiff" is worth 6 hickeys.

Hickeys can add up very quickly. I have seen many $2-$0.25 games end up costing a player over $30.

Some options (feel free to make your own)
$game-$per hickey
$1 - $0.10
$2 - $0.25
$5 - $0.50
$10 - $1
etc... seems like a hickey is typically worth 10% of the game


Above is how we play the game.

I have seen where the balls are spotted on the center spot instead of the foot spot. IMO a bad idea, it allows for easier position on the 3 & 6 holes (key points in the game)

I have also played the "3 and back" version where your ball is not removed for a foul, but 3 consecutive fouls moves you back a hole (if on #1, you must make it twice before moving on).

Though a bit jumbled, I hope this helps some.
-Jon
 
Another gambling rule..... We normally play that if you hit your opponents ball before you hit yours, you own him the cost of the game. So if you are playing 10-1, you owe him ten dollars for the foul/hit plus you get a hickey for it. But we leave it where it lays, the player whos ball got moved doe not get the option to move it back.
Chuck
 
jon, that is a really good explanation. thank you.

i just had another question about it; i've seen an extra ball sitting on a piece of chalk on the table. if you hit it i guess it cost you a hickey(how manny?)? and where ever it ends up you just prop it back up on the chalk? where is the starting postion for this?

thanks
 
We also play that the person who left the winner out pays double. We use to play this every Saturday morning and every game was hottly contested. If you gave your player (the next person in rotation) a clear shot at their pocket, you could expect some major disrespect.
 
pool-is-cool said:
jon, that is a really good explanation. thank you.

i just had another question about it; i've seen an extra ball sitting on a piece of chalk on the table. if you hit it i guess it cost you a hickey(how manny?)? and where ever it ends up you just prop it back up on the chalk? where is the starting postion for this?

thanks
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That is a "hickey ball", there is a penalty for contacting it.(edit: deleted "think of it as a ghost opponet's ball":not true).

its purpose is to provide an obstacle to increase the difficulty of the game, there is a penalty for touching it.

I am not near good enough to need the increased difficulty, therefore I do not have the answers you seek.

There is a small group of people that play this way on an old 9 footer (radius shelf and huge pockets). I do see the need for it there, but I don't play there. Owner just scribes a "D" on the table to keep them around (not a snooker table).
 
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buzzsaw said:
We also play that the person who left the winner out pays double. We use to play this every Saturday morning and every game was hottly contested. If you gave your player (the next person in rotation) a clear shot at their pocket, you could expect some major disrespect.
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This is not uncommon
 
Waco,Tx

We have a 5x10 Snooker table here at Clicks Billiards. There is a Golf game going almost non-stop 7 days a week!! They play with the extra ball on the chalk.

If you're ever near Waco, give me a call, I'll make sure you have some fun!!

Ray
254-379-2569
 
I've played golf and it was x$ per stroke. It was brutal... People could gang up . I had 70 or 80 strokes/shots after 6 holes... we were playing 18. That was my intro to golf and I never played again. The other 4 guys kept hitting my ball from the pocket. They left the low man or other guys much lower than me. I quit the match and told them to go f'm self... I wasn't paying.
 
mullyman said:
It's been decades since I last played golf. The owner of the room I go to is getting a snooker table. I'd like to teach the ring game guys how to play golf. If someone could lay out the way to play and the rules.....and how you bet, that would be great.
MULLY
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I wouldn't recommend it. Last time I tried, I ruined my 56-degree wedge. Also, even though I replaced my divot, the snooker table never really played the same.

-Andrew
 
Thanks for the layout of the rules. Someone metioned a ball on top of a piece of chalk but I seem to recall having 3 red snooker balls on the spots running up the center of the table. Anyone? Bueller?
MULLY
 
Kinda off topic but still about golf...

I saw Kim Davenport run out 1-6 hole on a 10' snooker table once from the break. The pockets were tight. If you put the 2 1/8" OB on the shelf just where it is about to fall in there was about an 1/8" to 3/16" of space in the pocket opening-which is a tough table. The sides were no bargan either, this was back in around 89 +/- a year. Can you imagine that. There was alot of action on that table in Modesto Ca. I know that another guy won over 6 figures on that box and Kim did too playing one guy almost everyday for about 8 months. High stakes golf. I am 100% that golf game was the biggest dollar game ever it ran for years and years.

I have been to other rooms where the golf game goes on for 12 hours a day or longer, Its fun to watch for sure. I dont think it would sell alot of DVD's like TAR does but it is a great game for sure. Its awesome to see such delicate shots on such big tables.


From my experience the one in Hardtimes in LA where the balls almost touches both knuckles on the corners on the 12' box is the toughest table ever. I asked Kim if he ever ran out on that table, he laughed and said no, he did make 4 in a row, he told me-I dont know what holes.


one other foot note, Fatboy has never ever once played golf, Snooker is my favorite game too! I love to sweat golf, its a great sweat but I just never played it. I have played liability at Hardtimes and it was a hardtime for me.:frown:
 
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Runnouts do happen. I've seen a local A player here, and the A is stretching it, break and run 2 in a row playing head up GOLF, for $1000 and 10 dollar hickeys! Craziest swing I've seen in a gambling match, cause most of there games are at least an hour even head up!
Jeremy
P.S.( they play this game 24/7 here, good action, but damn it is a slow boring game)
 
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