Best Golf Betting Games for Masters Week 2026

Masters Week Changes the Way You Play

There's something about Masters Week that makes your Saturday round feel different. The course conditions are peaking because it's mid-April. You've been watching the world's best players all week. Your group chat has been active since Monday. Even the guys who normally just want to get around in under four hours suddenly care about every shot.

That energy deserves a game that matches it.

We've played all 12 games in the Stick lineup across hundreds of test rounds, and certain formats just hit differently when the stakes feel elevated. Not because the dollar amounts change — but because everyone's locked in. Masters Week is when your regular foursome plays their best golf of the year. The game you choose should reward that.

Here are six formats that match the moment, from the classic foursome bet to the 20-player club event.

The Quick Comparison

🏆 Nassau — The One Everyone Already Knows

If your group plays Nassau every week, play it during Masters Week too. There's no reason to reinvent the format when the front nine / back nine / overall structure already creates three separate matches with natural momentum swings.

What you might consider changing: the stakes. A normal $5-$5-$10 Nassau becomes a $10-$10-$20 for Masters Week. Not because you want to lose more money — because the elevated stakes make every press decision sharper. Do you press 2-down on 14 when you're playing for double the usual? That math changes when the number gets real.

Quick settlement. Justin and Jason, $10-$10-$20 Nassau with auto-press at 2-down.

Justin wins the front 3&2. Jason wins the back 1-up. Justin wins the overall by 2. Jason pressed on hole 5 (2-down) and lost that press. Justin pressed on 13 (2-down on back) and won it.

Net: Justin +$40, Jason −$40. Five separate bets, all tracked automatically.

The reason Nassau works for Masters Week: it mirrors the tournament structure. The front nine is Thursday's round — you're finding your rhythm. The back nine is Sunday — everything matters. And presses are the equivalent of a charge on the back nine at Augusta. You're behind, you know it, and you're going for it anyway.

Read the full Nassau guide →

💰 Skins — When You Want Every Hole to Feel Like Amen Corner

Skins is the format that most closely mirrors watching the actual Masters. One hole at a time. Win it outright or it carries. When three skins carry to a par 3 and the value quadruples, that's your Amen Corner moment — one shot decides everything.

Skins scales effortlessly. Two players? Works. Eight players? Works. Your foursome Saturday morning and your club's 16-player Masters outing Sunday? Same game, same rules, same tension.

Masters Week stakes suggestion. $10 skins with carryover. That keeps most holes manageable, but when three or four skins carry over, suddenly someone's putting for $40-$50 with three people watching. That pressure is the whole point.

Quick settlement. Four players, $10 skins. When you win a skin outright, each opponent pays you $10 — so one won hole is worth $30.

Over 18 holes, Justin wins 4 skins, Jason wins 2, Evan wins 1, Todd wins 1. The other 10 holes were ties that carried over into the won skins.

Zero-sum verified: +$80 + $0 − $40 − $40 = $0. Settlement is one pass through the scorecard — clean enough to figure out before you order the first beer.

Best with carryover turned on. Without carryover, every tied hole is just a dead hole. With carryover, a tied hole builds value for the next one. By the back nine, a 2-skin carryover on a tough par 4 makes everyone grip the club a little tighter. That's the Masters Week energy.

Read the full Skins guide →

🏹 Quota — The Format for Your Club's Masters Event

If your club runs a big group event during Masters Week — 12 players, 20 players, maybe more — Quota is the format. Nothing else handles mixed handicaps across a large field as cleanly.

Here's why it works: each player's target is 36 minus their course handicap. A scratch player needs 36 points. A 20 handicap needs 16. Points come from gross scoring — par is worth 2, birdie 3, eagle 4, bogey 1, double bogey or worse gets nothing. Beat your number and you're positive. Miss it and you're negative. The player who exceeds their target by the most wins.

That scoring structure means a 22 handicap who plays the round of their life and posts +5 beats a scratch player who plays steady and posts +2. No flights needed. No separate divisions. Everyone competes on one leaderboard, and the math handles the fairness.

Quick example. Three players in a 20-person field.

Evan wins. He beat his target by the widest margin despite having the highest handicap. That's the beauty of Quota — it rewards the player who outperformed their own standard, not the one who shot the lowest number.

For a Masters Week club event, $5 per player into the pot works. Twenty players means $100, which you can split across top 3 or pay out entirely to the winner. Run Junk alongside for side action and the afternoon gets competitive fast.

Stick handles Quota for groups of 4 to 30+, with automatic handicap targets and real-time scoring. Download on the App Store →

Read the full Quota guide →

🐺 Wolf — For the Foursome That Wants to Feel the Pressure

Wolf is the most strategic betting game in golf, and Masters Week is when your group has the patience for it. The format rewards reading your opponents, trusting your game, and making decisions under pressure — which is exactly what you're watching the pros do on TV all week.

Each hole, the Wolf watches the other three tee off and picks a partner. Or goes Lone Wolf against all three for double the stakes. With four players rotating the Wolf position, every player is Wolf on holes 1, 5, 9, 13, and 17 (or similar rotation) — five times in 18 holes where the decision is entirely yours.

Turn on Hammer (the same doubling mechanic from TGL) and every hole becomes a mind game on top of a golf hole. The Masters Week version we like: Blind Wolf is mandatory on your last Wolf hole. You declare lone before anyone tees off, double or nothing. That's your Sunday back nine moment. You've been conservative all round and now it's time to go for it. Your group will talk about that hole for weeks.

Best for: Foursomes that know each other's games, where partner selection actually means something. "I'm picking Jason because he's been hitting fairways all day" is the kind of mid-round strategy that makes Wolf different from every other game.

Read the full Wolf guide →

🎯 Junk — The Side Game That Makes Every Shot Matter

Junk isn't a standalone game — it runs alongside whatever else you're playing. Nassau for the main event, Junk on the side. Skins for the primary game, Junk for extra action. It tracks bonus achievements during the round: greenies (closest to the pin in regulation on par 3s), sandies (up-and-down from a bunker), birdies, and whatever else your group agrees counts.

For Masters Week, Junk adds a layer that keeps everyone engaged even on holes where the main bet is already decided. You might have lost the front nine in your Nassau, but if you're stacking greenies and sandies, there's still money moving in your direction. It rewards the kind of shot-making that Masters coverage celebrates — the impossible bunker save, the long birdie putt, the greenie that sticks to 3 feet.

Masters Week custom categories worth adding:

Dollar amounts vary by group, but common stakes are $2-$5 per junk category. Over 18 holes, a player who collects 3 greenies, 2 sandies, and a birdie at $3 each picks up $18 from the junk pot alone — on top of whatever the main game pays.

Read the full Junk guide →

🐍 Snake — The Putting Pressure That Builds All Day

Snake is the simplest side game in golf and it's devastating during Masters Week because everyone's trying to putt well. The rule: three-putt and you hold the snake. Hold it at the end of the round and you pay everyone.

Snake works as an overlay on any other game. Play Nassau, Skins, or Wolf for the main event and run Snake on top. Every three-putt adds to the snake's value — it starts at zero and grows each time someone three-putts. But on the 17th green, when you're lining up a 6-footer and the snake is sitting with you, the pressure is different. That accumulated value is going to each opponent if you can't pass it, and everyone knows it.

Masters Week stakes. $1 per three-putt. After 5 three-putts during the round, the snake is worth $5 — the holder pays $5 to each of the other three players in a foursome ($15 total). When the back nine tightens up and nobody wants to three-putt, it adds a putting tension to every green that mirrors what you're watching at Augusta.

Read the full Snake guide →

How to Set Up Your Masters Week Round

Pick a main game and optionally add a side game. Here's what works:

Standard foursome. Nassau ($10-$10-$20) + Junk ($3 per category). Total exposure is reasonable but every shot has something riding on it. This is the setup most foursomes should run.

Competitive foursome that wants more. Wolf ($5 per point, Blind Wolf mandatory once) + Snake ($1 per three-putt). High strategy, high pressure, low bookkeeping.

Club event (12+ players). Quota ($5 per player into the pot) + Skins ($5 per skin within each foursome). The Quota tracks cross-group results on one leaderboard. The Skins keep things competitive within each group.

Threesome. Split Sixes ($2 per point) or Nine Point ($1 per point) + Snake ($1 per three-putt). Both games are built for three. New to betting? Read the fundamentals first.

Whatever combination you pick, agree on everything before the first tee. Stakes, press rules, whether junk counts, what handicap method you're using. The group chat argument after the round should be about who choked on 17 — not about what the rules were.

Stick tracks every game in this guide — Nassau, Skins, Quota, Wolf, Junk, Snake, and 6 more. One person creates the round, everyone joins from their own phone, and the settlement is done before you reach the parking lot. Download Stick →