How to play Skins
Win individual holes for money. Ties carry over, creating big payouts.
2-8 players · Easy
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Linked rounds, payout previews before you tee off, and stakes on what your buddies will shoot. The group chat finally has receipts.
The CutApril 28, 2026 · 2 min read
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Win individual holes for money. Ties carry over, creating big payouts.
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The hardest part of golf with your people was never the swing. It was the paperwork.
Who's in for how much? Does everyone agree on Nassau vs skins? When someone birdies the 14th, does the whole group actually know, or are three people still on the 12th guessing from a text that said "nice putt"?
That gap between what happened on the course and what the group understood is where arguments start. The new stuff shipping in caddie.fun is aimed at closing that gap before the round starts, during it, and after you shake hands.
Crews and linked rounds mean your regular group is a real object in the app, not just a recurring text thread. Link a round to the crew, see what's coming up on group home, rematch the same four in one tap when the last one settles. Season standings sit on the home screen so Saturday isn't a standalone story - it's chapter four of the same book.
Payout preview is the boring feature that saves the most friendships. Before anyone hits a drive, you see how money moves for the format you picked: three pots for a Nassau, per-skin math for skins, head-to-head stakes for match play, position splits for stroke play. Platform fee is visible. Nobody's doing mental accounting on the 1st tee pretending they understood the press rules.
Social predictions add a second game on top of the first. Stake XP on how you think your friends' rounds will go. Post the pick to the feed. See consensus when everyone piles onto the same side. A prediction leaderboard turns accuracy into something you can talk trash about without needing a PhD in Excel.
Amateur golf runs on trust and short memory. Trust breaks when two people remember the payout structure differently. Memory fails when nobody wrote down what the press on 10 actually meant.
When the pot is explicit before the round, the round is about golf. When predictions live next to live scoring, the couch matters as much as the fairway - you're engaged even when you're not the one playing.
You've already seen versions of this in other sports. Fantasy football drafts have clear rules. Poker nights have antes and antes only. Golf was the last holdout - same four guys, same confusion, same "we'll figure it out at the turn."
Figuring it out at the turn is how you get a four-hour negotiation instead of a four-hour round.
caddie.fun is not trying to replace your group chat. Trash talk still lives where it always did.
What changes is that the money side, the format side, and the "what do we think will happen" side have a home that isn't a screenshot of a Notes app. Crews, payout previews, and prediction stakes are the administrative layer for people who actually play for something.
If your Saturday group has ever ended with "wait, who owes who" - this is the direction worth testing.