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Vegas

Each team puts its two scores together into one number, a 4 and a 5 making 45, and the lower number wins the hole.

How it works

Exactly four players, two teams of two, each playing their own ball.
On each hole a team's number is its two net scores joined as digits, the lower first: a 4 and a 5 make 45. If either score is 10 or more, the higher goes first: an 11 and a 4 make 114.
The team with the lower number scores the difference, so 45 against 67 is 22 points to the team with 45. Equal numbers score nothing, and nothing carries. Most points wins, and equal points are halved.

Good to know

A team with a natural (gross) birdie or better that wins the hole turns the other team's number high digit first, so 47 becomes 74. If both teams have a natural birdie, nothing turns, and the host can switch the flip off.
A picked-up hole counts as a net double bogey, and so does every hole of a player who has left, with their partner playing on. A team with no real score from either partner takes no points on the hole.
If the host turns on presses, a team that falls behind starts a new match that runs to the end of the round: called by that team, or on its own at the number of points down the host sets. A press scores the points from its own holes, and one that ends level scores nothing.

A worked round

Two teams of two, each team's net scores joined into one number a hole, with the birdie flip on. The lowest handicap plays off zero, and the others get the full difference between their handicap and the lowest.

Team A: Kasper M. and Jordan B.Team B: Sam P. and Ike D.

The momentOn 2, Kasper's 3 was a natural birdie and Team A's 35 won, so Team B's 45 turned to 54 and Team A scored 19, not 10. Team A won 92 to 30.

1stTeam A92 points9 holes won

2ndTeam B30 points2 holes won

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Points
Par	4	4	3	5	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	5	4	4	3	4	5
Kasper
Jordan
Team A	44, won the hole	35, won the hole	34	46, won the hole	45	43	45	56	45, won the hole	33, won the hole	55	24, won the hole	46, won the hole	44, won the hole	34, won the hole	34	45	45	92
Sam
Ike
Team B	55	54	34	55	45	24, won the hole	45	56	56	45	44, won the hole	33	55	55	35	34	45	45	30
Scored	Team A 11 points	Team A 19 points	nobody	Team A 9 points	nobody	Team B 19 points	nobody	nobody	Team A 11 points	Team A 12 points	Team B 11 points	Team A 9 points	Team A 9 points	Team A 11 points	Team A 1 point	nobody	nobody	nobody

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Par	4	4	3	5	4	3	4	5	4
Kasper
Jordan
Team A	44, won the hole	35, won the hole	34	46, won the hole	45	43	45	56	45, won the hole
Sam
Ike
Team B	55	54	34	55	45	24, won the hole	45	56	56
Scored	Team A 11 points	Team A 19 points	nobody	Team A 9 points	nobody	Team B 19 points	nobody	nobody	Team A 11 points

Hole	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Points
Par	4	4	3	5	4	4	3	4	5
Kasper
Jordan
Team A	33, won the hole	55	24, won the hole	46, won the hole	44, won the hole	34, won the hole	34	45	45	92
Sam
Ike
Team B	45	44, won the hole	33	55	55	35	34	45	45	30
Scored	Team A 12 points	Team B 11 points	Team A 9 points	Team A 9 points	Team A 11 points	Team A 1 point	nobody	nobody	nobody

Hole	Par	Team A	Team B	Scored
1	4	44, won the hole	55	Team A 11 points
2	4	35, won the hole	54	Team A 19 points
3	3	34	34	nobody
4	5	46, won the hole	55	Team A 9 points
5	4	45	45	nobody
6	3	43	24, won the hole	Team B 19 points
7	4	45	45	nobody
8	5	56	56	nobody
9	4	45, won the hole	56	Team A 11 points
10	4	33, won the hole	45	Team A 12 points
11	4	55	44, won the hole	Team B 11 points
12	3	24, won the hole	33	Team A 9 points
13	5	46, won the hole	55	Team A 9 points
14	4	44, won the hole	55	Team A 11 points
15	4	34, won the hole	35	Team A 1 point
16	3	34	34	nobody
17	4	45	45	nobody
18	5	45	45	nobody
Points
Points		92	30

KM: Kasper
JB: Jordan
A: Team A
SP: Sam
ID: Ike
B: Team B
Sc: Scored

Net scores, each player's handicap strokes already off. A circle marks a birdie and a square a bogey. Each Team row is that team's number, its two scores joined lower first, and a dot marks the lower number. On 2 and 6 a winning natural birdie turned the other team's number high digit first. The Scored row is the difference, to the team with the lower number, and a dash means equal numbers, which score nothing. The Points column adds them up.

Handicaps

Scores are net, or gross if the host sets it, off the lowest handicap of the four.

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