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Play poker with special scorecards

Given the incredible popularity of poker these days, Guy Payne decided to bring poker to the golf course with his invention of the Poker Golf Scorecards.

As an event coordinator back in California, Payne wanted to find a way to marry the two games and experimented with ways to do it on his computer before finally getting a friend to write a computer program that accomplished this goal.

Payne still needed some way to get all this on a scorecard and finally, using the scratch off system common on lottery tickets, came up with a way to shuffle a deck of cards and assign cards to certain holes with a covered box that had to be scratched off.

“This ensures no two players will have the same scorecard, “ said Payne.

Payne, who moved to the WinStar Golf Course in Thackerville, OK as the tournament coordinator when it opened last year, now has several poker games available on specially designed scorecards that are available from his company, Straight Nuts.

When a player makes his target score—it can be par or maybe a net birdie—on a particular hole, he gets to scratch off a card. At the end of each nine holes and the entire 18 holes, the player with the best poker hand wins the pot.

Straight Nuts has scorecards for the following games—Stud Golf, Blackjack Skins, Scratch Golf Poker, Hacker Poker and Golf Hold 'em available in the third printing.

Mike Hammond, the golf professional at Winstar, claimed after using them, “This was the most fun I've had in a long, long time.”