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Choose Vegas

Select Vegas for the wildest team betting game in golf. It requires exactly four players split into two teams.

You can add Vegas alongside other bets like Skins or Match Play -- the app tracks them all simultaneously.

Vegas team pairing and wager configuration

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Pick Your Teams

Pair up into two teams and set the wager per point. Each hole, the difference between team numbers determines the points won.

Choose between Gross or Net scoring. Net Vegas uses handicap strokes to level the field for mixed-ability groups.

Tip: Even $1 per point adds up fast in Vegas. A single bad hole can create a 20+ point swing -- set the wager accordingly.

Live scoring Hole View with Vegas active

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Score Each Hole

Enter scores normally. Vegas combines your team's digits each hole -- if partners shoot 4 and 5, the team number is 45. Low digit always goes first.

The live bet ticker updates as you play, showing the running Vegas point differential.

Bets View showing Vegas combined team scores

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Watch the Swings

Bets View shows combined team scores and the running point differential. See the Vegas numbers for every hole and how the match is tracking.

One double bogey can swing a hole from 45 vs 45 to 47 vs 45 -- a 2-point swing. A triple? That's when Vegas gets wild.

Why Vegas is exciting: In stroke play, a triple bogey costs you 2 strokes. In Vegas, it can turn a 44 into a 47 -- a 3-point swing on one hole. Big numbers hurt exponentially more.

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Settle Up

Net payouts split across all four players. The app totals the point differential and divides the payout evenly -- each person on the losing team pays each person on the winning team.

Tap a payment row to send the amount straight to Venmo -- no retyping dollar amounts or arguing over who owes what.

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What Is Vegas in Golf?

Vegas is a 2v2 team golf betting game where partners combine their hole scores into a multi-digit number. If one partner shoots a 4 and the other shoots a 5, their team number is 45 (low digit first). The opposing team does the same, and the difference between the two numbers is the points won that hole. At $1 per point, a hole where one team posts 45 and the other posts 36 is worth 9 points -- a $9 swing.

What makes Vegas golf betting so exciting is the exponential punishment for bad holes. In regular stroke play, a double bogey costs you 2 strokes. In Vegas, it can turn your team number from 44 to 46 -- or worse, if both partners struggle, from 44 to 57. That's a 13-point swing on a single hole. One blow-up hole can wipe out an entire round of steady play.

Settle Up Golf handles all the Vegas math automatically. The app combines each team's scores, tracks the point differential hole by hole, and splits the final payout across all four players evenly. No more scribbling numbers on the scorecard or arguing over the math at the 19th hole.

Vegas works best with four players of similar ability, but you can enable Net scoring to use handicap strokes and level the field. Combine it with Skins or a Nassau to stack multiple games in the same round. New to the app? Start with the round setup guide to learn the basics.

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