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Six Card Golf - Card Game Rules

Each player has a layout of cards, initially face down, which can be replaced by new cards drawn from the stock or discard pile. Play 9 or 18 deals or 'holes.' The player with the lowest score wins.

A pair of equal cards in a column scores zero. Therefore the main object of the game is to make pairs, keeping unpaired cards as low as possible.

Players, Cards and Deal

2-4 players use a standard 52-card pack. With more than 4 players, add a second pack and a third if more than 8. Deal and play are clockwise.

Deal 6 cards to each player, one at a time. Arrange them face down in a rectangle in front of each player like this:

Place undealt cards face-down in the middle of the table for stock. Turn the top stock card face-up beside the stock to start the discard pile. Before play begins, each player turns any two cards in his layout face up. Don't look at other layout cards until they're discarded or turned up during play, or scored at the end.

The Play

The player to the dealer's left begins. Turns pass clockwise. On your turn, either draw the top stock card or the top discard. You can use the drawn card to replace any of the 6 cards of your layout, but if you replace a face-down card you can't look at it before replacing it. Put the new card face-up in your layout. Put the card previously in that position placed face-up on top of the discard pile. It's the next player's turn.

If you draw a card from the stock and don't want it anywhere in your layout, discard it face-up on the discard pile. It's the next player's turn. You may not draw the top card of the discard pile and discard it again, leaving the situation unchanged: if you take the discard, you must use it to replace a layout card.

Play ends when the last of a player's cards is face-up.

Scoring

At the end of play, turn each player's layout face-up:

• Each ace counts 1 point.
• Each 2 counts minus two points.
• Each numeral card (3-10) scores face value.
• Each Jack or Queen scores 10 points.
• Each King scores zero points.
• A pair of equal cards in the same column scores 0 points for the column (even if cards are 2s).

The player who has the lowest score after nine deals wins.

Source

Modified from pagat.com