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Many who own a pool table play standard 8-ball and 9-ball games. However, various creative games can be played using the pool table, including a variation of golf.

Two or more players can compete, and scoring works similar to golf. Like in golf, players compete over 18 holes, each trying to hole out first and get the lowest overall score.

1. Number the pool table pockets in a clockwise pattern from one to six. Have the number one hole be the lower left pocket in the kitchen area where you place the cue ball to start the game.

2. Pick a numbered ball to be your object ball. Have other players do the same. The game can be played with two or more players. Place your object ball on the foot spot. The foot spot is where the point ball rests for a break in a normal pool game.

3. Place the cue ball in the kitchen area. This is anywhere behind the second marked line on the opposite side of the table from the foot spot.

Try and make your ball in the first pocket. If you make it, put the object ball back on the foot spot and shoot for the second hole. Keep going until you miss.

When you miss leave your object ball where it lies. The next player puts their object ball on the foot spot and picks up the cue ball and starts in the kitchen area. Other players repeat this for the first round.

4. Leave the cue ball in play after the first round. Take turns shooting. When you make your object ball in a numbered hole put it back in the foot spot. Hit it toward the next hole from wherever the cue ball sits.

If you or another player hits the cue ball in a hole the next player moves the cue ball to the kitchen area for their shot. If you hit another player’s ball in a hole place their ball in the foot spot.

Penalties for fouls of hitting the cue ball or another player’s ball in a hole, knocking a ball off the table, or hitting your ball in the wrong hole are three strokes.

Keep track of the number of shots it takes you to hit your object ball in each hole. A scoresheet for each hole, like in golf, can be made to keep track of scores.

5. Repeat the clockwise rotation of holes three times for an 18-hole game, like in regular golf. Award the person who finishes the 18 holes first by taking three strokes off their score. The person with the lowest score at the end of the game wins.

Hillbilly golf is an outdoor game that is rising in popularity across the country and is featured at more and more outdoor parties every year. It is sometimes known as ladder golf.

Materials

Two Hillbilly Golf ladders, each with three two-foot crossbars that are one foot apart, and at least two sets of three Bolos.

Set Up

Ladders are to be placed 15 feet apart from each other. Each team is to receive one set of Bolos. Have one player from each team stand by each ladder.

Point System

Each step up from the ground is worth one point. The top crossbar is worth three points, the middle is worth two, and the lowest is worth one. If one team gets all three Bolos to stay on the ladder during one turn, then an additional point is rewarded.

Procedure

It is up to the players to determine who goes first in Hillbilly Golf. Each player from one ladder takes turns throwing one Bolo at a time at the opposite ladder. After all the Bolos are at the second ladder and points are added up, the players from this ladder toss them back to the other ladder and add up those points. The process repeats itself.

Winning the Game

The winner of the game is the first team to reach exactly 21 points, no more and no less.