Stymies - The Best Competitive Putting Game Known to Man

More Players the Better

Stymies is a vicious competitive putting game that is best played with as many people as you can wrangle up. Find 10 people and you'll have a blast.

It's a total strokes game played on the practice putting green...usually with some fun people that don't mind beating each other up a little bit.

How you Play:

1. Draw straws to determine who goes first - it's super important to keep the order

2. After the first hole, use golf's honor system to set order of play - low score on previous hole leads off

3. Player with the honor chooses the hole

4. All players putt in order, leaving their ball in place

5. If a ball strikes another ball, the player who putted incurs a 1-stroke penalty

6. The player farthest from the hole ALWAYS goes first.

7. No finishing out whatsoever - including 1" putts - in fact, the point is to get in everyone's way if you don't hole out.

8. Low score wins

We used to play this game for $1 per stroke...which can get pretty hefty.

Go with what you feel comfortable with, but I highly suggest some value per stroke to keep everyone engaged the entire time on every shot...otherwise, people get silly when they know they've lost.

Good luck!