Four down with six to play and the match is already gone. The Aloha is how you make the rest of the round matter: a brand new bet, starting right here, over whatever holes are left. The old match still settles the way it was always going to. This one starts even.
One sentence: start a new match, right now, over the holes that are left.
Usually the player who is losing, though there is no rule about that. It is a negotiation on the tee box, not an automatic trigger. The other player can decline.
The new match starts from the hole you are standing on and runs to the end of the round. The stake is whatever the two of you say it is. It does not have to match the original bet, and often it is bigger.
The original match keeps going and settles on its own terms. The Aloha is a separate match with its own score, starting from all square. One hole can move both at the same time.
Each bet pays out independently. You can lose the original match and win the Aloha, which is exactly the point of offering one.
They both create a new bet mid-round, and that is where the similarity ends.
Fires on a rule, usually two holes down, and belongs to the match that spawned it. Its stake is set by the match. Nobody has to agree to anything, it just happens.
Somebody offers, somebody accepts. Any hole, any amount, any time, including when the match is level or when you are the one ahead.
A press needs you to be behind by a specific margin. An Aloha needs nothing except two people who still want a game. That is the situation it exists for.
Because an Aloha is negotiated rather than triggered, the app waits for you to say so.
Turn the Aloha side bet on when you set up Indies. It has no settings of its own, because the numbers that matter get decided on the course. During the round, add an Aloha to any Indies matchup: pick the hole it starts from and the dollar amount, and it becomes its own line in that match.
Each one tracks like a normal match from its start hole forward, using the same strokes the players were already getting. Add a second or a third and they all keep their own score. At the end they settle into the Settlement Summary alongside everything else, so the total on your line already has them in it.
One thing worth knowing: Aloha is an eighteen-hole idea, so it is hidden on nine-hole rounds. And if a mixed-tee or mixed-length round re-settles mid-play, manual Alohas reset with it.
Aloha is an add-on to an Indies match, so this is the game it attaches to. Start here if you have not set one up before.
Read the rules →The match format most Alohas get bolted onto, and where presses come from. Worth understanding the difference between the two.
Read the rules →FLOG tracks every Aloha as its own match and folds them all into one settlement at the end.