ゴルフソリティアで低スコアを達成するための基本戦略。
ゴルフソリティアは少ない残りカード数（スコア）でクリアすることを目指すゲームです。初心者向けの基本戦略を解説します。
廃棄パイルのカードに対して、できるだけ多くのカードを連続して除去することを目指しましょう。例えば、廃棄が7なら、場の6か8を置き、そこから5か9を置く、という連続除去が理想です。
場のカードを除去できる状況では、山札をできるだけ引かずに場のカードを使い切りましょう。山札のカードは詰まった時の救済として温存します。
より多くのカードが残っている列から優先的に除去しましょう。短い列（残り1〜2枚）は後回しにできます。全体的にカードを減らすことが低スコアへの道です。
Some Golf Solitaire implementations include a wrap-around rule: the sequence is treated as circular, so a King can be followed by an Ace and an Ace can be followed by a King. This single rule change has a larger strategic impact than any other Golf variant modification.
Check whether wrap-around is active before applying column priority. In standard (non-wrapping) Golf, Kings and Aces are chain terminals and should be deprioritised as described above. In wrap-around Golf, Kings and Aces become bridge cards — a King sitting on a column top is no longer a dead end but a potential connector between high-card and low-card chain segments. This completely reverses the Kings-and-Aces priority: in wrap-around mode, a column topped by a King adjacent to a Queen in the chain is a high-priority play rather than a card to avoid.
In wrap-around mode, mid-chain transitions through Kings and Aces are chain extenders, not chain enders. A chain running ...Jack, Queen, King, Ace, 2, 3... is valid in wrap-around Golf and represents one of the most productive chain types in the game — it links the high-rank zone (10s, Jacks, Queens, Kings) to the low-rank zone (Aces, 2s, 3s, 4s) in a single unbroken run. Actively look for K-A or A-K transitions when the chain approaches rank 13 or rank 1, and plan column plays that set up the transition before the chain stalls at the terminal rank.
In non-wrapping mode, plan to exhaust Kings and Aces in pairs of stock draws. When a King column top cannot be extended, it will require one stock draw to clear past it. If multiple King and Ace column tops are simultaneously inaccessible, each will eventually need a dedicated stock draw — plan for this stock cost in advance by counting how many terminal-rank tops remain and ensuring enough stock cards survive to cover each one.
The 17-card stock is Golf's most finite resource. Each draw not only resets the chain top to an unpredictable new value — it permanently reduces the stock available for future chain resets in the same hand. Stock timing is the discipline of drawing only when necessary, positioning draws to produce useful chain tops, and sequencing column plays to maximise the number of tableau cards removed per stock card consumed.
Never draw while a chain extension exists anywhere in the tableau. Before every stock draw, run the full bidirectional two-pass scan: first check every accessible column top for a card one rank above the current chain top; then check again for a card one rank below. Only after both passes confirm no extension exists should the stock be drawn. This scan takes three to four seconds and recovers one to two stock cards per hand on average by catching extensions that a hasty single-pass glance misses. Over a five-hand session those recovered stock cards translate directly to more cleared tableau cards and lower scores.
Time draws to avoid burying useful column-top pairs. The stock card drawn becomes the new chain top. If that new top is rank-adjacent to a column top that was already accessible, a chain restarts immediately. If the new top is not adjacent to anything accessible, the chain is dead and the next draw must also be taken — burning two stock cards for one chain restart. Timing draws to land on productive new tops requires scanning which column tops are accessible and which ranks they are adjacent to before drawing, not after. A stock draw that lands on a 7 when accessible column tops include 6s and 8s is a productive draw; a draw that lands on a King when no Queen is accessible is a wasted one.
Preserve at least four or five stock cards for the final columns. The final five to eight tableau cards are the hardest to chain because the tableau is sparse and fewer rank-adjacent options exist. Running out of stock with four or five cards still on the tableau is the most common way to lose a Golf hand that was otherwise going well. Count your remaining stock periodically — at roughly the halfway point of the tableau clear — and if you have fewer than five stock cards remaining with more than six tableau cards left, shift strategy from chain maximisation to score minimisation: accept draws more freely to keep the chain moving and prioritise clearing any King or Ace column tops that will otherwise require dedicated draws in the endgame.
1. Always Scan Both Directions Before Every Stock Draw
The bidirectional two-pass scan — rank above, then rank below — before every draw is the single most impactful habit in Golf Solitaire. Missing an upward extension while checking only downward is the most common preventable error in the game. Run both passes every time, without exception.
2. Play the Card That Uncovers the Most Useful Second Card First
When multiple column tops are chain-adjacent, choose the one whose removal exposes the highest-value second card — a mid-rank card, or a card rank-adjacent to another accessible column top. This one-column-ahead habit extends chains by two to three cards per hand on average compared to playing the first adjacent card you see.
3. Check Whether Wrap-Around Is Active Before the First Move
Wrap-around fundamentally changes King and Ace priority. In standard Golf, Kings and Aces are chain terminals — deprioritise them. In wrap-around Golf, they are bridge cards — actively seek K-A and A-K transitions. Misapplying standard column priority in a wrap-around game costs two to three cards per chain on average.
4. Delay Kings and Aces Until the Chain Reaches Their Adjacent Rank
In non-wrapping Golf, a King column top played at the wrong moment ends the chain immediately. Hold King and Ace column tops until the chain naturally arrives at Queen (for Kings) or 2 (for Aces), then play them and draw a fresh stock card to restart. Timing terminal-rank plays correctly turns a chain-ending card into a clean transition between chain segments.
5. Thin the Deepest Columns First When Choice Is Equal
When multiple chain-adjacent column tops have equally useful second cards, prefer the play from the deepest column. Reducing a five-card column to four is more valuable than reducing a two-card column to one, because deep columns hold more future chain-extension potential and thinning them early preserves options across the whole hand.
6. Count Terminal-Rank Tops and Reserve Stock Accordingly
Each King or Ace column top in non-wrapping Golf will eventually require at least one dedicated stock draw to clear past it. Count how many terminal-rank column tops exist at the start of each hand and mentally reserve that number of stock cards for them. A hand with three King column tops needs at least three stock draws reserved for terminal-rank clears — factoring this into your stock budget prevents running out of stock unexpectedly in the endgame.
7. Restart Chains on Mid-Rank Stock Cards Whenever Possible
After a stock draw that produces a terminal or extreme-rank chain top (King, Ace, 2, Queen), draw again immediately if no column top is adjacent. A second draw costs one more stock card but produces a higher-probability productive chain top — mid-rank cards (5–9) have rank-adjacent options on both sides and restart chains more reliably than extreme-rank cards. Spending two stock draws on one chain restart is better than spending one draw on a chain that goes nowhere.
8. Prioritise Columns That Are One Card From Empty
A column with only one card remaining is one play from elimination — removing it creates a cleared column slot, which while not strategically significant in Golf (unlike in Klondike or FreeCell) does reduce the number of accessible column tops to track. More practically, a near-empty column whose last card is rank-adjacent to the current chain top is an immediately clearable column: play it now, clear it, and simplify the tableau.
9. Track Which Ranks Have Been Heavily Depleted
Golf deals 35 of 52 cards — roughly two cards of most ranks are in the tableau at any time, with some ranks having three. As the hand progresses and chain extensions use cards of specific ranks, note when a rank becomes heavily depleted. If both accessible 7s have been played and no 7 remains accessible, a chain running through 6 or 8 loses one direction of extension potential. This lightweight tracking prevents overcommitting to chain paths whose extension cards are mostly gone.
10. Continue Playing in Losing Hands — Every Card Reduces Your Score
Golf is scored across multiple hands and every card cleared reduces the penalty total, even when a complete clear is impossible. A hand that clears 30 of 35 cards scores five penalty strokes; a hand where you resign at 25 cleared cards scores ten. Never abandon a Golf hand before the stock is fully exhausted — even the last two or three cards cleared in a losing hand are worth the thirty seconds they take, because in cumulative scoring they directly reduce your session total. See our Golf Solitaire strategy guide for the full scoring framework.
The most common Golf mistake is playing the nearest chain-adjacent card without checking what lies beneath it. In a five-row column, the second card is always visible — it takes one second to register its rank. Players who consistently check the second card before choosing between multiple adjacent plays extend their average chain length by two to three cards per hand, which over a five-hand session is the difference between a session score of twelve and a session score of five.
The second most common mistake is drawing from the stock without scanning upward. Golf's bidirectional chain runs both up and down in rank, and the upward direction is systematically underused because most players scan naturally from high to low. Train yourself to check rank-above first, then rank-below. The upward direction recovers one extension per two to three hands that a downward-only scan would miss — a significant return on a habit that costs less than two seconds per draw opportunity.
ゲーム終了時に場に残ったカードの枚数がスコアです（少いほど良い）。全て除去できれば0点（パーフェクト）です。
設定によりますが55〜75%程度です。循環ルール（エース-キング接続）ONでより高くなります。
はい。ルールがシンプルで、1ゲームが5〜10分と短いため初心者に最適です。