You've seen it somewhere. Maybe at a Barbecue. Maybe at a park picnic. Perhaps you've seen a number of celebrities trying it on a talk show or late night tv. Wondered about it. Thought it looked like fun but didn't quite get up the nerve to go over and ask, "What game is it that you are playing?"
If there was a ladder and a golf ball attached to a nylon rope, a/k/a bolo, what you were seeing is the increasingly popular game of Ladder Golf a/k/a Bolo Toss.
Played with 2 or more players, a starter line is set up 5 paces from the ladder target. This line is called the 'toss line.'
After a coin toss to determine the starter, the first player tosses 3 bolos. There is no required form to toss so people are making up their own incarnations based upon ever evolving theories of physics, personal co-ordination, or whatever.
The idea, however executed, is to wrap your bolo around a rung of the ladder. Each ladder has three rungs for the taking..
Scoring is determined by the bolos remaining 'hung on the rungs' of the ladder at the end of the round. It's possible to knock a bolo off a rung during the game. Knocking off hanging bolos is highly encouraged in ladder golf.
Only hanging bolos that are 'up there' at the end of the game count for scoring purposes. A game is 21 points, going through overtime with a tie-breaker until someone scores a lead of 2 points. The 2-point rule for winning applies only in overtime play.
Since Ladder Golf is attaining such popular cache, you won't be surprised to learn it has its own rules of etiquette. No comments, humorous, snarky or otherwise, are permitted during play. Touching a tosser is unacceptable. No one approaches the ladder during play.
More about scoring: The top rung of the ladder is worth 3 points, the middle rung is 2 and the bottom is only 1 point. If all three of a player's bolos are hanging from the same rung, they get a bonus point. A bonus point is also awarded for a player who lands a bolo on each rung of the ladder.
Four players can play ladder golf by alternating each round. It is also possible, and frankly, recommended, that you purchase enough bolos so up to 4 players can play individually on the same ladder. In our neighborhood, we use 4 ladders and have multiple sets of bolos and there's a lot of tossing going on at once--all with entirely different 'techniques.
In all, the method of the toss and the challenge of 'ringing it' are so much fun and such a fine departure from everyday work, school, life, that everyone loves to get out there and play. And laugh. And bolo. It's just good fun.
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