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Even though golf is quite a simple game, there is no shortage of variations on the concept and different ways to play.

The basic golf game is generally referred to as stroke play – tournaments work using the stroke system, and it is the most widely-played version of the game. In this game, for every shot you make under or over the par of each hole, you have one point either subtracted from or added to your score. For instance, if you take five shots and hole 1 is a par 4, then your score would be +1. If you then move on to hole 2, a par 5, and take 3 shots, scoring an eagle, your new score is -1 – that’s one minus two.

Stroke play is heavy on maths and low on excitement, however, because it was designed for a large number of golfers playing at the same time. If playing head-to-head against a few friends is what you are doing, then playing for skins is far more interesting. With skins, the person who wins the most holes wins the match and the person with the lowest score on each hole wins the hole. Players pay a certain amount to enter the game and a share of the prize money being awarded to the winner of each hole because skins is often played for money.

For children, pitch and putt and crazy golf are the two alternative rule sets. The more serious of the two which resembles a much smaller version of a normal golf course is the pitch and putt and here, the player only needs to take one shot onto the green and then putt the ball into the hole. However, in crazy golf, the whole course is the green and each hole is littered with strange obstacles which are often based around a theme.

In crazy golf, however, the green is the whole course, and each hole is littered with strange obstacles, often based around a theme. While the game is fun for a family on holiday, it’s not going to turn your kids into pro golfers any time soon – although it might inspire them to take up real golf.

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