How to Play the Pinseeker Driving Range Game

If you are a golfer who enjoys heading to the driving range with a buddy — or you and your friends like to hit some balls on the range before starting the round — Pinseeker is a game you can play during that practice session.

Pinseeker requires two golfers (or more, although it goes quicker with just two) and a driving range that has target flagsticks down the range. Playing this game is easy, as is wagering on the outcome if you wish:

• Each of you takes 10 range balls out of your bucket.
• You agree on a target flagstick down the range. You can hit all 10 balls to the same pin, or move around to different pins as you go.
• You alternate playing to the selected pin — Golfer A hits, then Golfer B; Golfer A again, then Golfer B, and so on through the 10 balls.
• After each round, compared the results of your two strokes. Keep track of which golfer is closest to the pin on each stroke.
• After 10 balls, compare the results. Who was closest to the pin more often? That's the winner, of bragging rights or of any money you had riding on it.

Of course, you can play more than 10 balls if you wish, and you can play with more than just two golfers if you wish.

Pinseeker can be a fun, quick (as long as you stick with just 10 balls and two golfers) game to play in the middle of a practice session on the driving range. Use it to break up the your practice around the middle of the session, then, when Pinseeker is over, get back to your practice goals refreshed.

More golf games:

• How to play the 'Fairways Minus Putts' game
• The 'Three Points' putting green game
• Big list of golf games, formats and side bets

Sources:
Powers, Christopher. "The 15 best golf practice games," Golf Digest, June 6, 2018, https://www.golfdigest.com/story/the-15-best-golf-practice-games.