Friendly but competitive

[Hattersuk]

A colleague of mine is organising a charity tournament.

Some players are seasoned players with handicaps, some play often with no handicap and some play infrequently, with high scores and no handicap.

Is there a good format to play a tournament with these types of players? Or is there any point in trying to work out handicaps as close as possible?

He wants to keep it competitive.

Would different formats like foursomes ,stableford etc make this any easier?

Cheers

 

[freddielong]

Maybe some sort of scramble

 

[Golfman]

Play as fourballs, best two scores to count on each hole with all to score on par 3s. Keeps the less frequent players involved and means if they have a good hole they contribute to the team score.

 

[tebbs19]

You may want to think about the Peoria scoring system.

Six of the eighteen holes are secretly selected as special holes. None of the competitors are supposed to know which of the eighteen holes are the special six. Those six holes should be two par threes, two par fours and two par fives. If you can, try to select one of each kind from the front and back nines.

As each player finishes and turns in a score card, add up the scores on each of those six special holes. Multiply this total by three. Then subtract par for the course. The resulting figure serves as that player's Peoria Handicap... just for use with this event.

As with any handicap, subtract the Peoria Handicap from the player's gross total to calculate the player's net score, which is what you'll be using to determine the winner.

A variation of Peoria uses twelve blind holes instead of six. This is called "New-New Peoria" or "Double Peoria".

I've used the system a couple of times. It's not perfect but it's better than nothing, especially when the golfers do not have a clue as to their own playing standards and handicaps.

 

[Hattersuk]

That sounds well worth a try. Thanks

I'd never heard of it before.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Sounds way too complicated to me!!! I think some sort of fourball event (maybe every player having to score on xx number of holes). You don't want to make it too complicated so you are left with loads of calculations to do at the end especially if some of the guys don't play often and so don't mark the cards properly