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Skins

Skins

Low score for the hole wins the skin. Two tie all tie.

Choose to play net or gross or both, and toggle carries on or off during set up. One bad hole will not end your round, but one great hole could win the day.

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The app runs the game
The app runs the game

Big Fairways walks you through every step, hole by hole. No rule sheet in your back pocket and nobody keeping a tally on a napkin.

Share the leaderboard
Share the leaderboard

Send one link and the whole group follows along from their own phone, live, while you play.

Play several games at once
Play several games at once

Run this alongside any other side game. The points stay separate and the math stays clean.

Every point is counted
Every point is counted

Points during the round, then one clean total per player at the end. Nobody does arithmetic on the drive home.

What is Skins in golf?

Low score for the hole wins the skin. Two tie all tie. Choose to play net or gross or both, and toggle carries on or off during set up. One bad hole will not end your round, but one great hole could win the day. Skins is played by all four players, every hole, and Big Fairways scores it hole by hole so nobody in the group has to keep track.

How do you play Skins?

Why golfers love it

Skins is the easiest side game to explain on the first tee and the hardest to stop watching. Three holes halved in a row and suddenly the short par three everyone ignored is the biggest hole of the day. Nobody is ever out of it.

How Big Fairways runs it for you

Pick Skins when you set up the round, choose who is in, and start playing. The app prompts you at each step, keeps the running points, and lets you run other side games at the same time without the totals getting tangled. At the end you get one clean total per player and the shortest possible list of payments.

Send one link and your group follows the leaderboard live from their own phones, whether they are in your cart or watching from the clubhouse. Every round you post is saved to your own lifetime scorecard, which only you can see.

Common questions

What happens when a hole is tied in Skins?

Nobody wins the skin and it carries to the next hole. The next hole is then worth two skins, and it keeps stacking until somebody wins a hole outright.

Can you play Skins with three players or five?

Yes. Skins works with any group size. More players means more ties and bigger carries, which is why large groups often see one enormous hole late in the round.

Do you have to play Skins for money?

No. Big Fairways counts skins as points. What your group does with the points afterwards is entirely up to the group.

Do you have to play for money?

No. Big Fairways counts points. What your group decides to do with those points afterwards is entirely up to the group, and the app never handles anyone's money.

Is Big Fairways free?

Yes, free while we build it. Every side game, the live leaderboard, the settle up totals and your lifetime scorecards are all included, and there is nothing to install because it runs in any phone browser.

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Play Skins this weekend

Set it up in four taps, send the link to the group, and let the app keep every point.

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