How to play Rabbit — the golf side game
Any group
Rabbit is the easiest side game to run: the rabbit is loose on the first tee, and you catch it by winning a hole outright. Whoever’s holding the rabbit when a leg ends — the 9th hole and the 18th — collects from everybody else. That’s it. The fun is in how often it changes hands late.
The rules
Low ball outright (no ties) takes the rabbit — from the field if it’s loose, or straight off the current holder. A tied hole moves nothing.
- Holding the rabbit after 9: everyone pays you the stake.
- The rabbit is set loose again for the back nine — new hunt, same rules, paid at 18.
- Loose at a leg’s end (nobody won a hole outright since it got loose)? No payout — the rabbit lives.
Why groups love it
It stacks on top of anything — most groups run Rabbit alongside their main match or nassau. It keeps the player who’s out of the main game swinging, because one outright win on the 8th steals the whole front-nine pot.
How Swilkin runs it
Add Rabbit to any Swilkin round — it tracks who’s holding it hole by hole off the scores you’re already entering, pays the legs at 9 and 18 automatically, and stacks cleanly with your match, skins and dots on the same scorecard.
Play Rabbit this weekend
One scorecard, every bet settled to the penny — free for golfers.
Start playing — it’s free