GOLF

 

Setup:

1. Requires one deck of cards, no jokers.
2. 18 hand are dealt in the following order:

a.       1^st hand….1 card to each player

b.       2^nd hand….2 cards to each player

c.       ………………………………….

d.       9^th hand ….9 cards to each player

e.       10^th hand …9 cards to each player

f.        11^th hand….8 cards to each player

g.       …………………………………..

h.       18^th hand….1 card to each player

3. When six people play you must eliminate the hands which require 9 cards per player.

 

Beginning play:

1. Choose dealer by drawing for high card, you may choose before drawing weather high or low card deals. There is an advantage to not dealing so this is recommended.
2. Dealer begins by dealing each person 1 card and than turning one card up on top of the remaining cards.
3. The card that is turned up is the trump suit. Any card in that suit will take a card of another suit. The highest card played in trump suit takes the trick.
4. Each player in turn from the dealers left declares how many tricks they will take.
5. The dealer must declare a number of tricks so that the total number taken does not equal the total number available. I.E. If six cards are dealt and when it gets to the dealer six tricks have been declared, the dealer must declare at least one trick so that the total is not six.
6. Play begins with the person to the dealers left playing any card in his/her hand.
7. The player to his/her left must play a card of the same suit  (either higher or lower) if he has that suit.
8. If he/she does not have the suit played he/she may play trump or throw any other card in their hand.
9. This continues until each player has played a card. The person with the highest card in the suit played takes the trick unless someone did not have the suit and plays a card from the trump suit.
10.  If more than one person plays trump on a trick, the person with the highest trump card takes the trick.
11. Player taking this trick than leads the next card.
12. Play continues until all cards for that hand are played.
13. Players than count up the number of tricks they have taken. If the number taken equals the number declared at the beginning of the hand, that player gets 10 points plus 1 point for each trick added to his/her score.
14. Player not taking tricks equal to number declared gets 0 points.
15. Person with low score after 18 hands receives, from each player, a nickel for each time they did not make their bid. I.E. a person set 6 times would owe the winner 30 cents.

 

Rules:

1. Player is not required to play trump if out of a suit.
2. Player is not required to beat trump on a trick
3. If you have suit played you must follow suit, but you are not required to beat the card played.