Anyone else not keen on Texas Scrambles ?

[RichA]

I know we've discussed this before but I really don't understand how anyone could imagine that any formula is going to provide an equitable handicap system for scrambles in serious competition.
They're just for fun.

 

[Starter]

I appreciate that many enjoy them and good luck to you if you do.

Personally after a couple I and many of our group decided that they weren't for us and stopped entering.

Plenty of other opportunities to play.

 

[SteveJay]

I know we've discussed this before but I really don't understand how anyone could imagine that any formula is going to provide an equitable handicap system for scrambles in serious competition.
They're just for fun.

Not much fun playing a round then finding out some group has shot in the 50's net

 

[Hobbit]

Not much fun playing a round then finding out some group has shot in the 50's net

My last Texas score was 55 gross, net 51, 16 under gross. Every dog has their day, and sometimes it’s yours.

 

[KenL]

I like them as a club comp, but am not a fan of open comps with decent prizes take place. Allegedly some groups actually cheat!

I don’t like greensomes or even worse, foursomes.

 

[RichA]

Not much fun playing a round then finding out some group has shot in the 50's net

Generating a formula to accurately predict the likely score of 4 golfers with different handicaps playing 18 holes of golf as a team is like coming up with a perfect gambling formula. There are so many random variables that it's impossible.
In any golf competition with more than 2 entrants you are more likely to lose than win.
If you expect to win and can't enjoy the format knowing that you probably won't then yeah, it's not for you.
I never expect to win any sporting event. The fact that I very occasionally do makes it that much sweeter when it happens.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Love 'em. Pals and I often play the format socially. Beat the course, basically.

Unfortunately that mate has left the course as he's moved out the area but we used to do this in the winter. If wanted a quick 9 we would play scramble format and try to shoot par

 

[timd77]

I enjoy playing them with pals when we’re away on a golf break, it helps the non regular golfers settle in, aids getting to know newcomers and can be a bit of fun on the first day when you’ve been up since 4am to catch a flight!

Personally don’t enjoy them at my club, particularly during the spring and summer, I’d much rather play conventional singles or even pairs formats.

 

[Hobbit]

I don’t think greenkeepers like them very much. 4 divots right next to each other.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

I know we've discussed this before but I really don't understand how anyone could imagine that any formula is going to provide an equitable handicap system for scrambles in serious competition.
They're just for fun.

It’s why WHS/EG etc should have left them alone and not inventing a formula from thin air

 

[Orikoru]

I like them as an occasional diversion.

If you only get to play one round a week, I can see why you might not approve. Depends on how often tge club run them. Ive not played one this year.

Yeah, this is it. I enjoy a scramble occasionally as a bit of fun and a change. I'm often only playing once in a week though, so it would feel a bit of a waste to not play a proper round on the only one I get.

 

[Orikoru]

Not much fun playing a round then finding out some group has shot in the 50's net

Haha... Here's a scramble that happened at my place on Sunday.

 

[jim8flog]

I used to really like them but these days my legs will not take all the standing around that happens in one, plus they are the slowest format in golf.

Listening to those who still play them in opens the scores are just ridiculous although I have known them bad when the limit was 28.

 

[peld]

i play it once a year on captains day when its a laugh and not really very competitive, otherwise I dislike and would never play one competitively

 

[GreiginFife]

We play 3 a year. Opening Day, Closing Day and an invitational in August.

Play all three, great laugh with mates which is all I play them for. I don't enter any comp with a sole intent of winning, just trying to improve my own handicap, don't really give a fornication what anyone else does, I've got more manure to deal with than someone cheating at a hobby.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

My first club, short links, played them a lot, great fun. Always won by teams of low h/c golfers, mmmmm. Anyway, current course is long, they only do one a year, and none of the people in my team are big hitters so it's a pointless exercise. I do like them but not at my current place.

 

[Springveldt]

I like playing in them, always a good laugh but we also go into them knowing we have no shot at winning. Every single one I've played in has been won by 52 or less I think but it's always been the season opener or a bank holiday.

I'm not sure if I would like it as a weekend comp in the middle of summer, I'd probably skip that day and just play a social round on the other weekend day.

 

[Crow]

At my previous club they were drawn.
Mix of ladies and gents as numbers allowed, then one from lowest handicap pool, second lowest pool etc so all teams had an roughly equal mix of handicaps from low to high, then played off 10% of combined handicap.

It worked really well, no silly scores and everyone had a good time.

 

[Deleted member 18645]

Despise them. Even made it part of my Captain's speech a few years back that "there'll be no bloody Texas Scrambles whilst I'm Captain" to a raucous cheer.
And as for Open Scrambles, cheats' charter. Why would anyone waste money playing in one of those at another course?

 

[3offTheTee]

Cannot stand them. I am not very long off the tee and struggle to get my drives in.

Think it is acceptable early April/ late March when the course has not had much chance for the grass to grow. However having them in the Summer months is wrong and this period should be devoted to medal rounds.