Dogfight Book — a bird dog running toward the pin

A private ledger for the Saturday game

DOGFIGHTBOOK·COM·


The book your dogfight has kept for years — now it keeps itself.

Quotas, points, pots, and side money, kept the way your group has always kept them. Just never smudged, never lost, never left in someone's trunk.

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I.

The Book

Kept every week since your group began

Every dogfight has one: the book. Who's on what quota, who's been ducking it, who owes the pot from two Saturdays back. Somebody keeps it — on paper, in a glovebox, in one man's head. Dogfight Book keeps it for everybody, and it never misremembers a number.

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THE SATURDAY BOOK

Saturday, June 27 · eighteen holes · $20 in, ninety in the pot

PlayerQuotaPointsvs. QuotaWinnings
“Preacher” Combs2933+4$45
Dutch Calloway2730+3$27
Sonny LaRue2426+2$18
“Doc” Threadgill2121E
Bobby “Two-Putt” Vance1816−2

Preacher's quota come Saturday: the average of his last three — 28, 30, 33 — makes 30. The book never forgets, and never needs reminding.

II.

A Saturday, Entered

Nothing new to learn
  1. 1.

    Post the game

    One tap sets the date, the course, and the bet. Pars fill themselves for any course on earth.

  2. 2.

    Quotas set themselves

    New players seed at 36 minus handicap. After that, every man's number is the average of his last three rounds in the book — computed the moment the game starts, argued by no one.

  3. 3.

    Play, then tally

    Call out birdies, pars, and bogeys at the 19th hole, or keep the card hole by hole. Anyone in the group can keep score; the points do their own math either way.

  4. 4.

    The book pays out

    Places ranked, pot split, ties divided properly to the penny — and every side pot squared before the second drink arrives. Skins, teams, closest-to-the-pin, even the guest who isn't on the app.

III.

Bring Your Old Book

Years of history, honored
Dogfight Book badge — the bird dog inside a gold ring

Your quota picks up exactly where the paper left off.

When your group moves in, every member enters his last few point totals from the old book — three boxes, ten seconds, done. It's a gentleman's game: each man posts his own numbers in the open, and the book-keeper holds the pen on corrections.

Each dogfight stays its own private world — your name, your logo, your rules, your roster, joined by a six-letter code. Play in two games? You keep two books.

Shot 28, 24, and 26 in your last three? Your quota Saturday is 26. That's the whole system — same as it's always been, just legible now.