I thought I understood skins but apparently I don’t. I’m playing PGA Tour 13 right now and there are some skins events you can play before the actual tournaments. They are 3 skin matches. I was under the impression that once you won 2 skins you won but thats not the case. Here is what’s happening and what’s confusing me.
When I win each of the first two skins and tie the third the game puts us into sudden death mode and says first one to take a hole wins. We will push and push until one of us takes a hole but then I win anyway because I took two and they took one. This makes sense but I don’t understand why we even bother playing the third hole in sudden death but thats not the scenario that us truly warping my brain. The following is.
First hole push. Second hole I win so I get two skins. Third hole they win AND IT KEEPS PLAYING until either I take another hole or they do. I do not understand this at all. Why does it treat us like we are tied when I win the first two of three skins in this manner? 2 is 2 right? If it’s only a three skin round there should be no way for them to come back from that. This happens every time I take the first two skins in this manner.
The game is f’ed up if that’s the way it works. The number of skins you have won prior makes no difference - if you win a hole, you win that skin plus all carryovers, if any.
It sounds like they added an additional wrinkle where they care about the number of holes you win in order to declare an overall winner, not just the value of the skins you win.
I have little interest in golf, electronic or otherwise, but might this explain it?
“In 2001, the player winning a hole outright had to tie or win the next hole to collect his skins from the previous hole. This was very tough to do. Greg Norman was the only one that could back up his win on the previous hole. He won the 17th and tied for low on the 18th hole to collect $800,000, the largest skin collected for one hole. He won the $200,000 in a playoff to win the entire $1 million dollar prize money. This rule was rescinded the following year.*” - Skins game - Wikipedia
Not sure how the game works but using real golf it sounds like you are expecting a skins game to work like match play. In skins all of the holes have to be won by someone (to determine who gets the prizes for the final holes). In match play you only have to win enough holes for the other player to not be able to tie you.
This is what I thought but why wouldn’t the game end after the opponent wins the third hole? I’m thinking its something to do with the quote from wikipedia in an above post but I’m not sure.
Are all of the skins worth the same amount of money, or are some holes worth more than others? In skins golf, it is common for the final hole to be much more lucrative than the previous holes.
In the situations described in the OP, if the third hole is worth twice as much money as each of the first two holes, then the amount of money won by each player will be the same after all 3 skins have been won. I’m guessing that if the amount of money won is tied, then extra holes are played in order to declare an overall winner.