☂️ Umbrella
4 players (2v2)Main game
Umbrella is the 2v2 game where every hole is worth its hole number and five points are up for grabs: low ball, low total, two GIR points and a birdie. Sweep all five and the hole doubles. Bad Golf App counts every category and the umbrella bonus.
How Umbrella works
How it works: A 2v2 team game where the points grow all round. Every hole has five points up for grabs, and each point is worth the hole number — 1 apiece on hole 1, all the way up to 18 apiece on hole 18. The five points each hole:
• Low ball — the team with the single lowest score.
• Low total — the team with the lower combined two-ball total.
• GIR (partner 1) and GIR (partner 2) — one point per partner slot; your player greens in regulation while the matching opponent doesn't.
• Birdie — either partner makes a birdie.
Win a point outright to take it; a tie awards it to nobody.
☂️ The umbrella: if one team sweeps all five points while the other scores zero, that hole's points double. A tie on any single point kills the umbrella.
Example: On hole 8 (worth 8 each) your team wins low ball, low total, one GIR and the birdie — 4 points × 8 = 32 — but the other team grabs the second GIR, so no umbrella. On hole 12 you sweep all five while they get none: 5 × 12 = 60, doubled to 120.
Settlement: the running point difference between the teams × your u/point, scored per player. Play it net (by stroke index) or gross.
Exactly 4 players, two teams of 2. The two GIR points need GIR tracking turned on for the round.
Score Umbrella automatically
Bad Golf App keeps the Umbrella tally for your whole group on one live scorecard. Free on iPhone and Android.