What is a Skins Game?
Skins is a golf format played by three or four golfers. In a Skins game, the winner of a hole wins a Skin which is normally equivalent to a sum of money. The name of the game comes from the leather pouches – ie the Skin – which money was kept in. In effect, each hole is being played for a bag of money, or a ‘Skin’. Values of the Skin for each hole are declared in advance of the game. Sometimes each hole is worth the same Skin, but in some Skins games the value of Skins increase for the later holes.
