Rules for "Golf"

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I have never played golf on a pool table but would like to. In searching the internet, I have found several sets of very different rules, some with multiple cue balls, some with "hickeys", etc.

Anyone have an opinion on the "best" or "most fun" version of this game? A copy of the rules would be helpful also.

Thanks
 
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The pockets or "holes" are numbered 1-6 starting at the right foot pocket going clockwise ending with the right side pocket being 6.
Shooting order is by lag or lot with each player starting with their ball on the spot banking for the one hole from the D. After each player has had their initial tee off, the cueball plays from whereever it lands. Scratches= cue ball in the D. A legal shot requires a rail and your ball to be hit. The rail can be before or after contact, doesnt matter.
If on the initial tee off, a player makes his 1 hole, he continues shooting until he misses.
If you fail to make a legal shot or scratch, your ball comes off the table and you mark a hickey.
Those are the basic rules, depending on your locale, there are different gambling rules around the country. A hook cant follow a hook, 4 players or more and the person who sells out pays double etc etc etc. Money wise you play like 10-1, or 20-2 etc. Each player is betting the the 10, and will pay 1 per hickey to the winning player. Like any other gambling game, make sure you know the rules BEFORE you start. Strategy of course is to move your ball near your next hole while leaving the cueball in a position where the next player cant make his.
I dont like typing or I would have written more.... :eek::grin: The BCA rulebook has a good set of rules in there, but like I said know your local rules.
Chuck
 
This game will feel like mini golf on a pool table, snooker table is best. We didn't gamble playing golf and we played 3 hickeys and you go back one hole. Fun game!
 
If anyone is from the Manchester, NH area? Isn't golf the "around the world" game that is big in the private clubs?
 
This is interesting as I never knew about this type of "golf" billiards game. I have a erasable marker board that I got for a birthday that has a "golf" bnilliards game on it but it is nothing like what was stated above. There are 18 holes and each one is a different type of rack formation. All the racks use somewhere between 2 and 4 balls and par is the amount of ball in the rack +1. You start by shooting from the D and it is one stroke per shot. A scratch is an extra stroke and you have to shoot from the D again.

If you search the web you can find different "courses", the link below shows a picture of one similar to the one I have at home.

http://bargamecentral.com/library/PCGOLF.jpg
 
Great game-I'm told

I am new to the game.

We play on a tight 5x10 snooker table. Balls are 2 1/8. Pockets are 2 3/16 (corners).

What I have learned so far (I think)is-

That I always make the wrong choice of shot. As in-Shooting or lagging for your hole, adding congestion or 'coverage' with your ball to a location that will allow following player(s) to keep a man from having a clear shot at a hanger in front of his hole, running from next shooter(hold your man), feeding the ball to next shooter such that he can run, defend, take out the leader, or to hook next shooter so he can push away (with a hickey penalty)to a tougher position for the next shooter(leader) to shoot from(recalling that-this shooter will get a temporary lift of blocking balls if shooting at his ball, but,not if he's kicking at it). We play 3 fouls for no hit on an open ball(both edges cuttable). One hickey for fouls when 'hooked'. Hitting the wrong ball (another's ball) cost the price of the game/hickey/ and come off the table.

Making your hole/including someone else making it there for you(that cost them the price of the game/hickey/ball off table) causes it to come up on the original spot. Respotting after a foul, the ball comes up at the 'bottom' spot/that seems to be a little lower on the table than the 'seven' spot in snooker, if unoccupied. If it is, it's frozen to bottom cushion at center of rail, or back to top spot if the other locations are covered by ob's or cb.

At the end of the game, sometimes, everyone will join forces to prevent the leader from winning. The 'Sheriff' duties are then being shared by everybody to prolong the game. Sometimes, not everyone will help, instead-protesting that they must 'hold their man'-often resulting in a 'no escape' position for the man b4 the leader-causing him to sell out-and pay double. This is when the game becomes the loudest and most interesting. As the 'what you shoulda/coulda done(s)' are argued by everbody except the winner. He is busy with the 'count em up" part of the game.

Fun game. I just don't get all the moves and strategies yet. Even if I did, when you throw in the innaccuracies of slow rolling on the big table-odd things happen. Many games are decided on a fluky double cb/ob hit or a ball that gets loose due to hitting the pocket rounds.

It's another game I play bad.
 
Hah, this is cool. I'm going to try it out.

I think variations of sports are a good thing, more variety to keep things fresh. Some spinoffs have result in entirely new sports!
 
I saw a variation of "Golf" on a pool table played in Binghamton, NY from 1973 when I first started going there until 1997 when I moved to South Carolina. It was played a lot but not, I believe, with the conventional rules in the rule book. It was played often {think I only played one time} and was played on a 4 1/2 x 9 pool table. I never saw it played on the 5 x 10 Snooker table though the Snooker table was there for many years. There was a 6 x 12 in the room when I went back for a visit but I don't think anyone played the game on it.
 
The game is too easy on a 9' table. 10, maybe. 12' snooker table with tight pockets is where this game sings. And as stupid as it sounds, if the table has some rolls, it kind of adds to the game.
Chuck
 
Thanks for all the replies and comments. I'm still looking for a complete set of rules somewhere. Does it exist?
 
You might find a complete set of rules. Problem is, it is played slightly different depending on state/city etc. For a beginner a 9 footer could be ok but for an advanced player it would be a run out game. Good players may play on 10 footers but a 12 footer is preferred.

Rod
 
I remember when I played with Bobby Pickle and Ronnie Allen some time ago we played with a "hickie" ball.


An extra red snooker ball right square center of the table....if you touched it with any ball it was a foul....

there was no calling "hooked".....if you were hooked you took your shot and paid a penalty if you foul

I've played by quite a few diff sets of rules but my favorite way to play was how ronnie, bobby and I played....I found it that much more interesting and those rules added some fire to the game....really fun
 
greyghost said:
I remember when I played with Bobby Pickle and Ronnie Allen some time ago we played with a "hickie" ball.


An extra red snooker ball right square center of the table....if you touched it with any ball it was a foul....

there was no calling "hooked".....if you were hooked you took your shot and paid a penalty if you foul

I've played by quite a few diff sets of rules but my favorite way to play was how ronnie, bobby and I played....I found it that much more interesting and those rules added some fire to the game....really fun
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GG-

That sounds like a cool variation. Sounds like it could take away, or modifies the path of three rail plays of both ob and cb. But, considering the players in your game-probably adjustments made accordingly.

A one hickie foul and ball off table would be rough, but if it was a 'price of the game' foul-that would be real rough.

Thanks for the info.
 
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