When you start the game, you will see the basic layout of Golf solitaire in the Game window: The "deck" in the lower left corner and the seven columns of the "tableau" above them.
As the game begins, Golf deals thirty-five cards from the deck into the tableau, five cards face-up in each pile.
THE GAME
The object of the game is to clear all the cards from the tableau by playing them on the cards turned up from the deck. As you turn up each card, you may play on it the top card from any pile which is next higher or lower in sequence to the card turned up, regardless of suit. Ace is low, King is high.
For example, if you turn up a three, you may play either a four or a two on it. You may continue to play as many cards as you can, freely ascending and descending in sequence, before turning up the next card from the deck.
No card may be played on a King; therefore, while two-ace-two is legal, Queen-King-Queen is not.
If you succeed in playing all the cards from the tableau, you have won the game. Good luck.
SCORING
Once you have finished playing all the cards you can, and there are no more cards in the deck to turn up, your score is the number of cards left in the tableau. Lower scores are better, just as in the namesake game.
