Giving Match Play Shots.

[Doon frae Troon]

Looking at the scoring from South Africa where they are playing a shortened course with EIGHT par 3's, I was reminded of and old heated discussion with low handicap golfers.

The jist of the topic was that the lower handicapped player in a match should be able to chose where the higher handicap player gets single shots [and do away with SI].

The big point was that nearly all would chose to give shots on a short hole or a drivable par 4 rather than a Par 5. Also nearly all said they would give the shots early in the round.

As an add on, anyone still playing Bisques in bounce games. That can be good fun. A bisque is a shot that can be taken at any time at any hole before you drive off the next tee. So say a 12 handicapper would maybe give a 20 handicapper 4 bisques.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Mods.......post this in the wrong section, can you please move it?

 

[FairwayDodger]

Looking at the scoring from South Africa where they are playing a shortened course with EIGHT par 3's, I was reminded of and old heated discussion with low handicap golfers.

The jist of the topic was that the lower handicapped player in a match should be able to chose where the higher handicap player gets single shots [and do away with SI].

The big point was that nearly all would chose to give shots on a short hole or a drivable par 4 rather than a Par 5. Also nearly all said they would give the shots early in the round.

As an add on, anyone still playing Bisques in bounce games. That can be good fun. A bisque is a shot that can be taken at any time at any hole before you drive off the next tee. So say a 12 handicapper would maybe give a 20 handicapper 4 bisques.

We have an annual match captain's team v lady captain's team - 4BBB. The ladies get two bisques, and two extra strokes at two holes which are par 5 for ladies, par 4 for the guys. The blokes in my match were somewhat unimpressed to find themselves dormie 3 down and our bisques still available. Good fun that day!

 

[full_throttle]

End of season Rabbits v Tigers is when we play using Bisques. The rabbits get 7 bisques, with all players playing of scratch.

 

[Mungoscorner]

I must admit that sometimes giving shots on par 5's can be a right royal pain in the rear.
The 5th at my home course is SI3,its a par 5 of 485 yards,but because its a double dog leg,it negates any advantage the lower handicapper may have (getting on in two).It's a shot of 190ish yards to the axis of the first dogleg,followed by a similar shot to the axis of the second dogleg,and then a flick over a river to the green.Due to the double dogleg,and high trees between fairway and green,its virtually impossible to get on in two,and because of the short distance's to the axis of each dogleg,its a resonably straight forward 3 shot green for the higher handicapper.