User20204
Well-known member
Stableford due to it being an advantage to higher handicappers.
Formats of play you just don't like or can't play!
- Thread starter Wolf
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I don't like greensomes. It's a stupid society game for crap golfers that can't put an 18 hole score together on their own 
Scratch foursomes sorts out the men from the boys
Scratch foursomes sorts out the men from the boys
Jacko_G
Blackballed
Stableford is just a way of guys and gals not saying they shot 97!
I can't stand foursomes. Tough tough game to get going.
I can't stand foursomes. Tough tough game to get going.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
I'm 100% with you on foursomes and bogey. I really love the very specific challenges they present - though I wouldn't want to have to play them regularly.
On Bogey I find it a real mental challenge standing on the tee knowing what I must score to halve or win a hole. Then similarly after every shot I know what I must do. And so for instance when you put one in the doggie doo off the tee, t's a very different thought process than normal trying to work out how to get out of the hole without losing it.
Foursomes I find a great training ground for the mental aspect of our game that demands acceptance of the shot that has just been played.
Jamesbrown
Head Pro
Medals and Stablefords as they are the same to me. Singles match play.
Any other format is a waste of a weekends golf. Does nothing for my handicap, and because I’m not interested I play well...which royally irritates me.
Any other format is a waste of a weekends golf. Does nothing for my handicap, and because I’m not interested I play well...which royally irritates me.
duncan mackie
Money List Winner
65 posts and no one has mentioned mixed greensomes (either way)....
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
Foursome is not a great test if your mate puts you in the trees all day.
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
Being very PC.
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
Imo strokeplay is nothing like Stableford!I know, as do most golfers yet still it is disliked by so many. If you have an 8 on a par 4 it still gets written as 8 on the card. The h/c may ultimately not read it as that but it is what the card says. To hit par in stableford, forget CCS, you aim for 36 points. That may involve a couple of 0 scores but the joy of stableford is that you can blank those. On the same course par in strokeplay could be 72. That same 36 points in stableford can come out as a nett 76 in strokeplay. Dress it up all you like, we add the numbers up in their totalitly for each scoring method and strokeplay hurts more.
Anyway, Wolf and others are allowed to like Strokeplay and dislike Stableford, I and others are allowed the reverse
Yes the same rules apply except for one.
You don’t need to hole out on every hole to put in a score.
This takes pressure of some people and they enjoy it more.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
It's a good test of patience....
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
It's a good test of patience....
im pretty sure I could break yours haha
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Oh Steve......you've no idea...I would be the worst foursomes partner in the history of really bad decisions.
Lazkir
Head Pro
Playing in the Bondhay Open later this year, I've just been told the format is 1 to count from first 6 holes, 2 to count from the next 6, 3 to count holes 13 - 17 and all four to count on the 18th.
Have never come across this before, does it have a name?
Have never come across this before, does it have a name?
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Yup - I enjoy it as a social form of golf and a different sort of challenge - fun to play with a lady and working out strengths and weaknesses of your partner.
I'm usually longest and straightest off the tee - but it's not always the best thing to take my ball every time and have my lady partner hitting second shot. Play with a lady who is reasonably long off the tee (ladies are almost invariably straight) and it is often the right choice to take the ladies ball, especially on par 4s when ladies might not be able to reach the green playing my ball, but I can reach playing hers.
Interesting.
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Some clubs call it a waltz
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
we'd make a right pair then haha
Lazkir
Head Pro
I'm used to the 123 and 321 Waltz formats, and this is obviously a variation of that. Just that I've never seen it done like this before. I guess it's just to ramp up the pressure on the last few holes.
anotherdouble
Journeyman Pro
That’s why Phil is not a dance teacher 🤣ðŸ‘😜
Orikoru
Tour Winner
This made absolutely no sense to me. Do you mean that you play in fourballs and your best score counts on 1-6, best 2 scores count 7-12 etc?
Lazkir
Head Pro
Apparently that's exactly how it is. Weird innit?
