Rule Variations

These are variations to my rules that are from friends that have played the game or from other on-line users.

Scoring Variations:

• Make the top rung 1 point, the middle rung 2 points and the bottom rung 3 points.
• If all of the bolas from one team land on the same rung during one round, they get an extra point.
• If one team gets a bola on each rung, they get an extra point.
• If a player gets more than 21 points during one round, just don't count those points (instead of counting the points negative).
• In case of a tie where 2 or more teams get 21 points during the same round, during the play-off a team only needs to be 2 points ahead of the other team(s) to win (instead of 3)
• If a bola is wrapped around the ladder upright, some count it as 1 point.
• If a bola is hanging on another bola, some count it as a point - or some count it as 1/2 a point.
• If the bola is long enough to wrap around 2 ladder rungs, then the score for both rungs is counted.

Other Rule Variations

• Use only 3 bola's per team.
• Measure out the distance between ladders as 5 paces instead of 25 feet.
• When throwing the bolas, each member throws all of their bolas before the next person throws theirs - instead of taking turns throwing one at a time.
• .Try ladder golf at night. This adds a new challenge to the game as you may not be able to see the ladder rungs all the time.  The rungs on our ladder are red, white and blue.  At night, the only rung we could see was the white one so we had to "guess" in throwing the bola at them.
• To make the game go faster, we made a rule to throw 2 or 3 bolas at the same time - in any order you wish. This takes a little practice, but it is a different challenge.  Scoring would be the same as normal.