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Foursomes can be played as match play or stroke play. Fourball: defined in Rules 30 and 31, this is also played between two teams of two players each, but every player plays their own ball and for each team, the lower score on each hole counts.

An outdoor bocce game lasts until one team reaches 16 points, or 1 hour has passed from the designated start time—whichever comes first. A bar bocce game is played to 14 points or 45 minutes. House rules may designate a different winning score. Matches are are never "win by two".

Throwing balls toward a target is the oldest game known to mankind. As early as 5000 B.C. the Egyptians played a form of Bocce with polished rocks. Graphic representations of figures tossing a ball or polished stone have been recorded as early as 5200 B.C.

Team furthest from the pallino continues to throw until they are closer or out of balls. One point for each bocce ball closer to the pallino than opponent's closest ball. Two points for a leaner aka bocce (a leaner is when a scoring ball touches any part of the pallino.

One point is given for each bocce ball that is closer to the pallino than the opposing team's bocce balls. The pallino distance marker can be used to determine which balls are closer. The game continues until 12 points have been scored or to pre-determined points set by the players before the game starts.