How to Play Bingo, Bango, Bongo Golf

Bingo, Bango, Bongo is a fun social golf game to play while golfing. Many times players of Bingo, Bango, Bongo golf agree to pay a nickel a point to make the action more interesting, but it is not a gambling game entirely and you can adjust your game playing stakes in any manner you desire. Players of Bingo, Bango, Bongo Golf aren't entirely subject to probability, instead golf skills can make or break the game for you.

Rules of Bingo, Bango, Bongo Social Golf Game

Bingo, Bango, Bongo Golf needs to be played as a twosome at minimum and works best when a foursome plays. All golfers in the group need to agree to play Bingo, Bango, Bongo Golf prior to the start of your nine hole or eighteen hole round. All golfers in the group must agree to the game playing stakes, if there is to be one, before the start of the round. Choose one person to act as scorekeeper. Two scorekeepers will help prevent error. Once the round starts, Bingo is awarded for the first person to place a golf ball on the green. Bango is awarded to the person that places their ball closest to the hole on the green. Bongo is awarded to the person who sinks their ball first in the hole. Players that play out of turn are penalized the points for Bingo, Bango, Bongo for the hole. Three total points are awarded during each hole of the golf round.

Establishing Game Playing Stakes for Bingo, Bango, Bongo Social Golf Game

Adding a nickel a point stake to the round is unlikely to bankrupt anyone and if a person lost all points, the most they would end up paying would be $2.70. Other ways of adding stakes are to make the person with the least points buy drinks, clean golf clubs, or arrange the next outing.

Skills Needed to Get Bingo in Bingo, Bango, Bongo Social Golf Game

Attaining Bingo in Bingo, Bango, Bongo golf requires more skills than having the longest drive or the most carefully placed approach shot. What counts is planning your shots carefully to reach the approach so that your attempt for placing your ball on the green is first and as near as possible to be accurate. To do this, divide the distance to the green by the distances that your clubs will take you in the fewest but most reliable shots. Women have an advantage at Bingo in Bingo, Bango, Bongo since they typically drive straight and are often left with a chip that will place them on the greens. Men often lose at Bingo in Bingo, Bango, Bongo because they use a fairway drive shot onto the green that is as likely as not to roll off the green or end up in a hazard.

Skills Needed to Get Bango in Bingo, Bango, Bongo Social Golf Game

Bango is one with a sure, accurate chip onto the green. You can win Bango and Bongo by chipping into the cup. A lob shot, one where the ball arches upward and stops, either with backspin or not, requires great skill. If you place your approach shot close to the green, a low chip that acts like a putt is the most accurate. This low chip shot won't work if you have to go over a hazard, are in deep grass, or have to go uphill or downhill to get onto the green. Placing your approach shot carefully to get a putt or chip that acts like a putt is the best way to win Bango and maybe Bongo when playing Bingo, Bango, Bongo golf.

Skills Needed to Get Bongo in Bingo, Bango, Bongo Social Golf Game

Bongo requires accurate putting. Depending on whether you win Bango, you have a better and worse chance of winning Bongo. If you don't win Bango, you're handicapped by being further away from the cup. If you win Bango, you are handicapped by being the last one to putt. Accurate putting with a smooth stroke along a putting line will help you win Bango. Make sure that you judge your distance to the cup by using your backstroke to establish impetus and that your stroke will impel you 6 inches past the cup, just little enough that you don't go too far, and short enough that you don't bounce out of the cup.

Counting Points and Determining Wins in Bingo, Bango, Bongo Social Golf Game

Each win of Bingo, Bango, or Bongo on a hole is marked on the score card next to the players name for every hole as one point. All other players chip in a nickel to the winner to the winner of every point. Add up missing points on a hole as a nickel on each player to get a player total, then pay the difference of each player to the one with fewest cost.

Benefits of Playing Bingo, Bango, Bongo Social Golf Game

As you can see from my discussion of the skills needed to win at Bingo, Bango, Bongo golf, playing the game will make a golfer focus on the intellectual part of the game. Planning your shots carefully helps reduce the competitive need to win and judge yourself against others. If you select how far you plan to go and then reach that spot, chances are you will win at Bingo, Bango, Bongo golf. You will also learn to focus on individual portions of the game in standalone mode. Your object becomes not to win the game with the fewest strokes, but to be accurate in how you use your fairway shots, chip, and putt. Improving each of these skills is the key to improving your golf game. And along the way, you and your buddies will exchange a lot of nickels. Plus, everyone has a greater chance of winning on every hole, this makes a fun sport into a fun social event.