5 Best
Golf Drinking
Games
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The Official Playbook
Birdie
Juice
Three-Putt
Punishment
Greenies
Closest-to-Pin
Cart
Karaoke
Bingo
Bango Bongo
How to Play
1. Birdie Juice
Make a birdie and everyone else in your group takes a shot. Can't stop, won't stop. Pre-fill those shot cups before Par 3s — peer pressure is half the game.
Best played with: the full group. Maximum humiliation for bogey golfers.
2. Three-Putt Punishment
3-Putt = 1 Shot. 4-Putt = 2 Shots. Let's #@%! go. Nothing fixes your putting faster than the social cost of drinking alone in front of your friends.
House rule option: anyone who 5-putts has to sing a verse of Cart Karaoke right there on the green.
3. Greenies (Closest-to-Pin)
On every Par 3, the player whose ball lands closest to the pin wins the hole. Every other player takes a shot. If nobody hits the green? Everyone drinks. Rough day.
Tie rule: both players are safe. Everyone else still drinks.
4. Cart Karaoke
The player with the worst score on any hole must perform a song — chosen by the group — during the next cart ride. Encore or take another shot. Their choice.
Pro tip: start with the chorus. Easier to remember. Worse to watch.
5. Bingo Bango Bongo
Three points available per hole:
Bingo — First ball on the green: 1 PT
Bango — Closest to pin when all balls are on the green: 1 PT
Bongo — First ball in the hole: 1 PT
After 18 holes, the player with the lowest points takes a shot for every point they trail by.
Best for groups of 4. Keep a scorecard — it gets complicated after hole 10.
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