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3 Putt Poker New game

Start a new game

Set the putt rules and the players, then share one link. Everything after this works from the phone in your pocket.

Game setup

Three short steps

  1. Game
  2. Rules
  3. Players

The game

Holes

What putts pay

The highest rule also covers everything above it, so 5 putts pays for 5, 6, 7 and beyond.

Players and scoring

Who enters the scores?

Player names

Blank names become Player 1, Player 2 and so on. You can rename them later.

You get an organiser link, a live board link and QR codes as soon as the game exists. Keep the organiser link private: it is the master key.

How 3 Putt Poker works

A side game for the round

Three Putt Poker is played alongside a normal round of golf. Before the first tee, everyone agrees a buy-in and pays it into a pot. Nobody’s golf score changes — the pot is settled on the greens.

Every green is scored on putts

Once the group has putted out, each player’s number of putts for that hole is entered on the phone. The number of putts is all that matters: it decides whether you earn a playing card, add money to the pot, or neither.

The usual set is one card for a single putt, nothing for two, and money into the pot for three or more — but the organiser sets what this game pays, so the “How it pays” panel on the game is the version that counts.

The cards are real cards

This app never deals a card. Cards come from a real deck on the table, and the app keeps count of how many each player has earned over the round.

At the end, players build the best poker hand they can from the cards they hold and the hands are compared at the table. The app does not rank hands or pick a winner; it tracks the ledger that gets you there.

The pot only grows

The pot opens at the buy-in multiplied by the number of players — four players at £5 starts it at £20 — and every penalty rule adds to it as the round goes on. It is shown on every screen and moves as scores are entered.

Three ways in, one link each

Creating a game gives the organiser a private link with full control: players, rules, every score, and finishing the game.

There is a shared scoring link for the group, which lets anyone holding it enter or correct scores but never change a setting, and a personal link for each player that only touches their own card. A read-only link shows the same board to anyone, so the clubhouse TV can be left on it.

What the board shows

The leaderboard ranks players by cards earned, then by the least money paid in — the player with the most cards and the fewest penalty pounds is ahead.

Nothing here needs an account or a desktop. The whole game is set up, scored and shared from a phone, and screens update themselves while the round is being played.

When the round ends

Finishing a game locks scoring and shows the final pot, the cards each player earned and what each paid in. The organiser can reopen it if a hole was missed, archive it for the record, or duplicate it for next week with the same players and rules.