Golf skins calculator
Enter the buy-in and how many skins each player won — get every payout instantly, carryovers and all.
Total pot
$80.00
4 players × $20.00
Skins won
0
Value per skin
$0.00
Net = payout − buy-in
Enter skins
Tied holes carry over, so fewer total skins are won — which makes each surviving skin worth more. Enter the skins each player actually claimed and the pot splits across them automatically.
How skins payouts work
In a skins game, each hole is worth a skin and the outright low score wins it. Tie a hole and nobody wins — the skin carries to the next hole and the pot stacks. At the end you total each player's skins and split the pot across every skin that was won. The math is simple but easy to botch at the 19th hole, which is exactly what this calculator (and the full skins rules) is for.
Frequently asked questions
How do you calculate skins payouts?
Add up the buy-in from every player to get the pot, then divide the pot by the total number of skins that were actually won. That gives the value of one skin. Each player's payout is their skins won times that value. Because tied holes carry over and aren't won by anyone, the total skins won is usually fewer than the number of holes — which makes each skin worth more.
What happens to carried-over skins?
A tied hole isn't won, so its skin carries to the next hole. When a player finally wins a hole outright they collect all the stacked skins. In a pot-split game you don't price each carryover separately — you just count how many skins each player ended up with, and the pot divides across that total.
How much is a skin worth?
It depends on the pot and how many skins were won. A $20 buy-in for four players is an $80 pot; if only 8 skins are won all day, each skin is worth $10. Fewer skins won (more carryovers) means each one is worth more.
Skip the math entirely
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