How to Play Quota
Quota is a golf points game where each player's target is 36 minus their handicap, you earn points per hole (bogey 1, par 2, birdie 3, eagle 4), and whoever beats their quota by the most wins. One of the fairest ways to bet across skill levels. Here's how it works.
What's the deal?
Quota is a points game built around your handicap, which makes it one of the genuinely fair ways to bet across skill levels. Each player gets a quota equal to 36 minus their handicap. A 12-handicapper needs 24 points; a scratch golfer needs 36.
Beat your quota and you collect the difference; fall short and you pay it. A 20-handicapper and a 5-handicapper are both competing against their own personal target — the field is as level as golf gets.
Setting the stakes: put a value on each point over or under quota — $0.50 a point is the standard — or play winner-takes-the-pot for the player who beats quota by the most.
How to play Quota
- 1Calculate each player's quota: 36 minus handicap (a 10-handicap has a quota of 26).
- 2Points per hole: bogey = 1 · par = 2 · birdie = 3 · eagle = 4 · double bogey or worse = 0.
- 3Everyone plays stroke play. Keep a running points total through the round.
- 4After 18 holes, compare each player's points against their quota.
- 5Beat it by 3? Win 3 points' worth. Fall short by 4? Pay 4. Settle in cash, or winner-takes-the-pot.
Now Grab the Hat.
Wear it, beat your number, and prove your handicap's honest.
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