Pub golf

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Pub golf (or Bar golf) is a drinking game. It involves a number of pubs and/or bars – ideally eighteen, although this becomes an incredibly difficult course – comprising the 'course', with each being assigned a 'par' as a hole on a golf course is. In pub golf, the par for each pub is drinking a certain drink in a particular way. For example, one pub might be assigned as a par one with a straight double vodka and another might be a par four with a pint of cider. In the first case a par 'score' would be recorded by drinking the double vodka in one swallow. In the second case, the pint of cider would have to drunk in four swallows. Under and over par would be drinking the assigned drink in less or more swallows than the par of the bar allows respectively.

It is often the case when playing the game that there are designated places for using the toilet and that if a participant uses the toilet outside of those places they are penalised. This can be particularly hard when a course is set up using many pints of beer or cider or glasses of wine.

The University Town of Bangor in North wales has an annual Pub Golf Event known as the Bangor Open, traditionally staged in April,and played in full Golf atire. The course was originally designed by Jason Jarvill of U.W. Bangor Men's Hockey Club. The course commences in Patricks Bar in upper Bangor and finishes in the Main Bar of the Students union in Lower Bangor. The route has varied in recent years but always includes a 2 holes in The Albion Hotel the long term sponsor of the Men's Hockey team. The course record of 18 for this challenging event is shared by 4 people, Daniel Brian Vernon, David Stuart Halkyard,David McCarthy and Andrew Preston. The Highest recorded score being set by Neil Skidmore in 2006.