Sholf

Sholf is a lawn game that combines elements of table shuffleboard and golf, played by putting golf balls across a specially built green toward a scoring area. Each player or team plays with a set of balls in its own distinct color, and players or teams alternate turns putting their balls down the green, aiming both to land in higher scoring zones and to knock an opponent's balls out of favorable position, much as in shuffleboard. After all eight balls in a round have been played, each side putts its worst-placed ball again in an extra shot called the mulligan ball, and only the ball or balls belonging to the side lying closest to the scoring area actually score points, with balls earning more points the further they travel fully across the relevant line on the green. A standard match is played to thirteen points, and the game can be played as singles, one player against another putting from the same end of the green, or as doubles, two against two, with teammates putting from opposite ends. An alternate format called Stonebridge removes the mulligan-ball rule and is instead played as a best-of-three series with each game won at fifteen points.