3ball or 4ball singles ?

[bladeplayer]

Hi All

Club just announced they going to try changing our singles comps from 3ball to 4 ball from 10am -12am , they reckon as not many play in the afternoon it wont effect many thay play in 3balls after 12

Personally i think 4 ball singles is too slow , if not many play in afternoon why not allow 4balls after 1 or 1.30..

Whats ye'r thoughts on this please , im all for trying stuff but to impose this from 10 am is not fair in my opinion

 

[bladeplayer]

Ok my apologies there has been a misunderstanding on the post it only covers our Tuesday open comps ..

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Individual stroke play as a 4 ball can be mighty slow - due to need for all four players to hole out on every hole. I'd say to be avoided at all costs unless absolutely essential.

 

[bladeplayer]

Individual stroke play as a 4 ball can be mighty slow - due to need for all four players to hole out on every hole. I'd say to be avoided at all costs unless absolutely essential.

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Yep in full agreement with that ,Im struggling with rejoining same club this year , BUT it has more positives than negatives so it probably will ,
when i heard this i thought hey hold up , but as its ony tuesday comps now that wont have any bearing on my decision

 

[Lump]

You'll get slow groups in 3 balls or 4 balls in team play or singles.
The problem with 3 balls is you reduce the amount of people that could play. 3 balls in my opinion, doesn't work. We operate a 3 ball system for medals, the course moves no quicker.
I've been a member of 2 clubs, my old course allowed 4balls for everything, it worked just fine. But at our current club, 1 member of a "regular" 3 ball gets excluded to apparently let the course move quicker.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

All our single comps are 4 Ball, depending on whether Stab or Stroke they take on avg 31/2 - 4hrs, never known it any other way at our place and can only say it works fine, slow players are slow players whether on their own or in a 4 Ball.

 

[Deleted member 18588]

Certainly makes a difference at our club.

Experimented with one individual competition as 4 balls and the pace of play was horrendous.

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

We play all our Saturday comps as four balls. Being a nine hole course we have to squeeze as many in as we can but invariably we get the odd cancellation so the odd three ball gets mixed in.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

We rarely take more than four hours as three balls which is plenty. If you went to a four that would go out to four and a quarter/four and a half and that's too long. Wouldn't want it at my club

 

[mikejohnchapman]

All our weekend comps are 4 ball. The slated time for a round is 4hrs 16mins and it rarely takes less than that!

 

[Smiffy]

When I hold the Cooden meet each year, we are restricted to 3 balls both morning and afternoon.
I'm not saying we don't get the odd hold up, (you'll get slower groups whatever format you use), but I do find it's one of the easiest meets to organise.
There has never been the problem of players not getting a decent lunch break and everybody is back in time after the second round for a shower and a pint before the evening meal.
Fourball play inevitably leads to some players having to fill their faces at lunchtime with minutes to spare, and also finds me continually pushing the evening meal back to accommodate the stragglers.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

When I hold the Cooden meet each year, we are restricted to 3 balls both morning and afternoon.
I'm not saying we don't get the odd hold up, (you'll get slower groups whatever format you use), but I do find it's one of the easiest meets to organise.
There has never been the problem of players not getting a decent lunch break and everybody is back in time after the second round for a shower and a pint before the evening meal.
Fourball play inevitably leads to some players having to fill their faces at lunchtime with minutes to spare, and also finds me continually pushing the evening meal back to accommodate the stragglers.

Without a doubt 3 Ball is better, but as our place has never tried it you just get used to 4 Ball, for those the other way round I can see how it could be culture shock

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

All our weekend comps are 4 ball. The slated time for a round is 4hrs 16mins and it rarely takes less than that!

4BBB; 4 ball individual stableford or 4 ball individual medal? Or all three?

 

[mikejohnchapman]

4BBB; 4 ball individual stableford or 4 ball individual medal? Or all three?

All three, interestingly the slowest format of all is a texas scramble.