How to Play Vegas
Vegas is a 2-vs-2 golf betting game where each team combines its two scores into a single two-digit number, then teams compare numbers and pay the difference in points. It's fast, brutal, and a single blow-up hole can swing the math hard. Here's how it works.
What's the deal?
Vegas pairs you up 2-vs-2, but instead of adding your scores together, you line them up into a two-digit number — lower score first. The two teams compare numbers and the difference is the points won or lost on that hole.
That's what makes it dangerous: the gap between teams isn't a stroke or two, it's the difference between two-digit numbers, so it adds up fast. A clean hole barely moves the needle; one bad hole can cost a small fortune.
The twist that gives the game its name: if a player shoots 10 or more, the team's number flips — a 10 and a 3 doesn't become 310 by accident, it becomes 103 the smart way or a disaster the wrong way. Agree on your flip rule before you start.
How to play Vegas
- 1Split into two teams of two. Agree on a dollar value per point — start at $0.25.
- 2Everyone plays stroke play on each hole.
- 3Each team puts its lower score first to form a two-digit number. (A 3 and a 5 = 35.)
- 4Compare the two numbers. The lower number wins the difference in points.
- 5If a player shoots 10+, flip that team's number (a 4 and a 10 = 104).
- 6Total the points across 18 and settle into cash.
Team A shoots 4 and 5 → their number is 45.
Team B shoots 3 and 6 → their number is 36.
Team B wins the hole by 9 points (45 − 36). At $0.25 a point, that's $2.25 on one hole — and that's a normal hole.
Now Grab the Hat.
Wear it to the first tee, keep the stakes low, and let the math do the trash talk.
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