Strengthen Your Family by Spending Time Together
Strengthen Your Family by Spending Time Together

Golf: A Fun Card Game for Families

Golf is a great family card game for those who are 8 years old and older.

Our family played lots of games together. And lots of card games, too!

In fact, when I used to traveled for work, I would buy a deck of cards that had a design on the back that featured the area.

I got the cards I used here in Moab, Utah. They have Kokopelli figures on them which is popular there.

(Please don’t mind how dingy the cards are. They have been well-used.)

This card game of Golf is best for kids 8 years old and older.

You’ll need 1 standard deck of playing cards for 2 to 3 players. You’ll need 2 decks for 4 or more players.

Make sure that you include the joker cards. They are VERY important to the game!

This game is similar to the outdoor game of golf in that the players try to get the lowest score and that 9 ‘holes’ (or rounds) are played. (A round is when players are dealt a hand of cards and they play until one person goes out.)

To play, the dealer gives each player 6 cards face down. Players arrange their cards in 2 rows of 3 cards. They select two cards to turn face up. Those two cards must be in a vertical column with one above the other. (The face up cards can be in any of the three vertical columns.)

Card games are fun for the family to play.

Players cannot look at their other cards that are face down.

The remainder of the cards are placed face down in the middle of the table. This is the draw pile. Turn over one card and place it beside the drawing pile. This is the discard pile.

The player to the dealer’s left goes first. She chooses a card from either the draw pile or the discard pile. She may swap that card for one of her 6 cards or discard it.

Players need to swap out their high scoring cards with cards that have lower point values.

If the card is swapped for one of the cards that is face down, the new card is placed face up.

When all of one player’s cards are face up, the other players turn over any of their cards that are still face down. They get one more turn. However, the players cannot pick up a card that is discarded.

This is the end of one round (hole).

Scoring:

An ace is 1 point.
A joker is minus 2 points.
Numeral cards are face value.
A jack or queen is 10 points.
A king is zero points.
A pair of cards that are the same number and are in the same vertical column scores zero points.

In the picture below, the score is 6.

Card games are fun for the family to play.

If a player gets 4 cards that are all of the same number (as shown in the picture below), the other players add 10 points to their score at the end of the round. The score below is 1.

Here's a fun family card game.

Cards are shuffled and dealt out again for the next round.

Play ends when 9 rounds have been played. And, the winner is the player with the lowest score.

Be sure to add Golf to the games you play with your family!

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