From Brent Kelley,
Your Guide to Golf.
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Definition: Cut Throat is a fun diversion on slow days at the golf course. It is played on the tee box while you're waiting for the group ahead of you to move out of range.

In Cut Throat, each member of your group places a golf ball on the ground near the tee marker on one side of the tee box. Using the club you'll be teeing off with, the object is to knock your ball across the tee box, hitting the far tee marker; then back to the side you started on, hitting that tee marker; then take aim at your partners' golf balls, eliminating them by hitting their golf balls with yours.

If you hit the target with your first try, you immediately go again, and keep going until you miss. If you miss with your first try, the next member of the group goes, and so on, alternating turns.

If a golf ball goes off the tee box, that player has two turns to get back onto the tee box or he is eliminated.

The first time during a round that Cut Throat is played, flip a tee to determine playing order. After that, the first person eliminated on the previous tee box goes first; the previous winner goes last.

Just be sure when playing Cut Throat that you don't get so involved in the game that you lose track of time, and start holding up the group behind yours.

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