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Listed below are terms for golf tournament formats and for golf bets and golf betting games. Click on a term for the definition.
• USGA Policy on Gambling

1-2-3 Best Ball
2-2-2
2-Man No Scotch
2-Man Scramble
2-Person Best Ball
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4-Man Cha Cha Cha
Aces and Dueces
Acey Ducey
Air Presses
Alternate Shot
Am-Am
Ambrose Competition
American Foursomes - See Chapman System
Arnies
Auto Win
Bag Raid
Barkies
Best At Something
Best Ball
Best Nines
Better Ball
Bingle Bangle Bungle - See Bingo Bango Bongo
Bingo Bango Bongo
Blind Bogey
Blind Nine
Bowmaker
Bramble
Bridge
Calcutta
Callaway System
Canadian Foursomes
Captain's Choice
Chapman System
Chicago
Criers and Whiners
Criss Cross
Cut Throat
Defender
Derby
Devil Ball
Disaster
Eclectic
Eliminator
English
Fairways & Greens
Fish
Flag Competition - See Flags
Flags
Florida Scramble
Fort Lauderdale
Four Ball
Foursomes
Greensomes
Gruesomes
Hate 'Em
Hog
Hollywood - See Round Robin
Honest John
Horse Race - See Shoot Out
In the Bucket
Irish Four Ball
Jack and Jill
Last Man Standing
Las Vegas
Las Vegas Scramble
Lone Ranger
Lone Wolf - Wolf
Low Putts
Modified Pinehurst
Modified Stableford
Money Ball
Murphy
Mutt and Jeff
Name That Score - See Bridge
Nassau
Nasties
Nicklauses
Nines
No Alibis
No Putts
Odds and Evens
One Club
Par Is Your Partner
Par or Out
Peoria System
Pick Up Sticks
Pinehurst
Pink Ball - See Yellow Ball
Pink Lady
Play It Again, Sam
Polee
Powerball
Press (or Pressing the Bet)
Putt for Dough
Rabbit
Replay - See No Alibis
Reverse Scramble
Round Robin
Rumpsie Dumpsie - See Shoot Out
Sandie
Scotch Foursomes
Scramble
Scruffy
Selected Score
Seve
Shamble
Ship, Captain & Crew - See Wolf
Sixes
Skins Game
Stealies
Strike Three
String It Out
Shoot Out
Snake
Splashies
Stableford
Switch
System 36
T and F
Texas Scramble
Thirty-Two
Three Ball
Three Club Monte
Three-Putt Poker
Threesomes
Tombstone
The Train
Triples
Trouble
Uglies
Whack and Hack
Wipe Out - See No Alibis
Wolf
Wolfman
Woodies - See Barkies
Yellow Ball
Yellowsomes

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