Does anyone know all the rules for a game called Golf? Each player gets 2 balls and starts shooting at a corner pocket and has to go around the pockets to win.
Pool game called Golf?????
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really all there is to golf each player has their own ball its a race to make all the pockets in order
1st player to make all 6 pockets wins
mostly played on snooker tables with very small pockets
1st player to make all 6 pockets wins
mostly played on snooker tables with very small pockets
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Old Nine Baller
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The game is usually played on a Snooker table, either a 5' x 10' or a 6' x 12'. The game is started by each player taking BIH in the "D" and banking the ball on the spot straight-back to the 1 hole. If a player should happen to make the 1 hole he spots his ball up and shoots at the 2 hole from where the cueball stopped.
The object of the game is to be the player who makes the 6 hole. There are as many different rules to this game as there are poolrooms on Earth. There is a two-ball variation also which I haven't played and don't know the rules to.
Cheap, multi-handed games are played with 6-9 players and the bet might be $5 on the game and .50 cents per foul. The fouls are usually %10 of the bet on the game. 100/10, 50/5, 20/2, 10/1 and so forth.
Fouls are numerous and all losers of the game must pay the winner the game bet and their fouls accrued during the game.
Many times the game is played that the player who sells out to the winner must pay double, this prevents (sometimes) morons from doing stupid things.
All in all, if you want to hear many grown men act like 8 year olds for hours on end, then watch a multi-handed game of Golf between bangers. It's hilarious.
ONB
Good stuff there. I was told each player got 2 balls, an object ball and a "cue ball". I guess we can make up the rest of the rules to suit our needs.
Old Nine Baller
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To my knowledge and in my experience there is never more than 1 cueball on the table, ever. I forgot to post a pic of the pockets, numbered.
This is how the 1st player would open the game. If using the Snooker balls the 1st player would use the 2 ball, 2nd player the 3 ball and so on.
Golfers are like a family. They know each other very well because they play with each other every day of the year. They argue,cuss, loud at each other, talk on each other's back and many times the whole pool room can hear their arguments but they are all friends again. In some places they have been playing together for more than 20 years. Seniors crying like children. Very tough game and lot of technique is involved. Very high level of cue ball control is needed
Quality of the game experience is very much dependent on the group playing.
Chances of winning or not selling out and paying double is VERY dependent on who you follow, and their understanding of the game/or how much they like/dislike you.
Games can go for 3-5 hours with 5-7 players. It can be an hour before you get to shoot at your hole.
Beware of 'partners' within the playing group. Beware of players who will go for their hole, although a miss may lead to an indefensible position for the man trying to hold the leader from going out.
The game has situational changes in priorities among players. Sometimes everyman for himself, other times, one of more players have to give up their goals to help 'protect the game' and stymy the leader. Recognizing when to shift priorities and alliegiances is crucial to a good game, and is a big part of evaluating another's 'shoot or help' choices and timing.
Once somebody has made the 3 hole...everybody should be helping in slowing the leader down. But it doesn't always happen. Sometimes one or more players has to become 'sherrif' and thwart the leader when those who should, don't or won't.
It gets complicated...then a lot of yelling about taking wrong shots at wrong time...you learn who you do or do not want to follow fairly quickly based on what they cost you.
Local rules vary as to counter/clockwise ordering of holes. Definitions of 'snookered' may vary... etc.
And the 4 and 5 railers are fun.
You got to watch everybody, buddy.
Chances of winning or not selling out and paying double is VERY dependent on who you follow, and their understanding of the game/or how much they like/dislike you.
Games can go for 3-5 hours with 5-7 players. It can be an hour before you get to shoot at your hole.
Beware of 'partners' within the playing group. Beware of players who will go for their hole, although a miss may lead to an indefensible position for the man trying to hold the leader from going out.
The game has situational changes in priorities among players. Sometimes everyman for himself, other times, one of more players have to give up their goals to help 'protect the game' and stymy the leader. Recognizing when to shift priorities and alliegiances is crucial to a good game, and is a big part of evaluating another's 'shoot or help' choices and timing.
Once somebody has made the 3 hole...everybody should be helping in slowing the leader down. But it doesn't always happen. Sometimes one or more players has to become 'sherrif' and thwart the leader when those who should, don't or won't.
It gets complicated...then a lot of yelling about taking wrong shots at wrong time...you learn who you do or do not want to follow fairly quickly based on what they cost you.
Local rules vary as to counter/clockwise ordering of holes. Definitions of 'snookered' may vary... etc.
And the 4 and 5 railers are fun.
You got to watch everybody, buddy.
I grew up playing golf. A kid with a bunch of mean nasty old men. Game has not changed much really. Still a bunch of mean nasty old men, but now I am one of them. Sadly there is not public snooker table in my area now. Without a long 2hr+ drive I just think about how great of game it is play now.
Couple of things, if you play with 3 or less people often you can place and extra ball on the mid-table center spot. If you hit it with the cb or your colored ball it counts as a hicky. Unlike another poster, I have never seen the game played on anything but a snooker table. Both 10 and 12 ft. tables usually very fast to get the multi-rail shots without blasting the ball so hard it is out of control. Golf will teach you a lot about multi-rail shots and if you like money you better have reasonable cue ball control.
Couple of things, if you play with 3 or less people often you can place and extra ball on the mid-table center spot. If you hit it with the cb or your colored ball it counts as a hicky. Unlike another poster, I have never seen the game played on anything but a snooker table. Both 10 and 12 ft. tables usually very fast to get the multi-rail shots without blasting the ball so hard it is out of control. Golf will teach you a lot about multi-rail shots and if you like money you better have reasonable cue ball control.
The rules you linked for the "Around the World" variation have been considerably shortened and not 100% accurate on the pool.biz website. The first pocket in "Roundy" is actually at the foot end of the table, and like Golf, you have to make each pocket in order, progressing around the table to the "6-pocket", which is the same side pocket as the 6-pocket in Golf. The "Queen City Pool League" league has been continuously operating for more than 60 years, making it one of the oldest pool leagues in the country. They have a pretty complete website (including rules) here: http://nhroundy.com/ "roundy" is a fun game. I hated it when I first was introduced to it about 40 years ago, but after avoiding it for years, and in the meantime getting hooked on One Pocket, I have found I have a new liking for the game :grin:
Regarding Golf on a pool table, when I have heard of it played on a standard 4-1/2 x 9, with money involved, they seem to NOT use the standard foot spot for spotting the object balls, because it would be too easy to run pockets off from that location. Instead, they use a mutually agreed on lower spot location, often the middle of the foot rail. I have seen it played that way a couple times in the action room at DCC in the past.