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Golf Solitaire is a fast stock-and-waste game with one simple test on every move. If the waste card is a 7, an exposed 6 or 8 can play. Suits do not matter. The pressure comes from the stock. Once a useful rank goes by, you may not get another chance before the stock runs dry.
The Golf table contains 35 cards in 7 overlapping columns. Every face is visible, though only the end card of a column is playable. TriPeaks Solitaire uses a similar rank-adjacent move but has 28 tableau cards arranged in peaks. Golf replaces that shared coverage with 7 independent columns and does not allow the King-Ace wrap.
How a Golf Deal Works
Start with 7 tableau columns, 5 cards in each column, a stock pile and one waste card. Only the bottom card of each tableau column is available. Play an available card when it is one rank higher or lower than the top waste card. The played card becomes the new waste card, which can open a fresh rank on the next move.
What You Are Trying to Do
Clear all 35 tableau cards before the stock stops helping. A finished Golf game leaves the tableau empty. The waste can hold many cards by the end, but only the top waste card matters for the next legal move.
Where Everything Sits
The stock and waste sit on the left side of the board, and the 7 columns fill the rest of the table. Cards above the bottom row are blocked until every card below them has been played away.
Which Cards You Can Play
A tableau card is playable when it is exposed and exactly one rank away from the waste. A 10 can take a 9 or Jack. A 4 can take a 3 or 5. Kings are stop cards in standard Golf. With a King on the waste only a Queen can follow, because the ranks do not wrap around to Ace. Draw from the stock when no exposed tableau card connects.
Spending the Stock
Draw only when you have to. Drawing changes the waste card and can close a line that was available a second earlier. Before drawing, scan the bottom card of every column. If 2 legal cards are visible, prefer the one that uncovers a useful middle rank or avoids leaving a King as the next waste card.
Pyramid Solitaire uses a stock and waste in a similar way, but there you remove pairs that add up to 13 instead of following the ranks up and down.
Strategy Notes
Try to keep flexible ranks on the waste. Middle cards such as 6, 7 and 8 usually give more exits than an Ace or King. When a move exposes a new bottom card, look at the rank underneath before you take the obvious play. Sometimes the best move is the one that leaves 2 follow-up ranks open rather than the one that clears the nearest column.
For the same rank-adjacent idea without a stock, Black Hole lays every card face up in 17 short fans and allows Kings to connect with Aces. The how to play Golf guide covers the no wrap rule, the King stop and stock timing in full.
Quick Golf Answers
Does suit matter in Golf Solitaire?
No. Only rank matters. A red 8 and a black 8 behave the same way.
Can an Ace play on a King?
No. This table uses standard Golf rules with no King-to-Ace wrap.
Can every Golf deal be won?
Every Winnable deal can. Each one has a known solution from the opening, while a Random deal may have none.
How does Golf scoring work?
Each tableau card you clear is worth 10 points, so every win scores 350. A signed-in win without hints or undo goes on the Golf leaderboard, where the faster time ranks higher.