Mag feature - what quirky competitions does you club have?

[Shooter McPowick]

Hindhead does a cross country event as well.

 

[MendieGK]

We play an event called the Hawaiian trophy (everyone must wear the top)

teams of 4
6 holes 4BBB
6holes greensomes
6 holes pairs Texas scramble

you change Partner each 6 holes so that everyone plays with everyone. Brilliant format

 

[need_my_wedge]

On New Years we have an annual Cross Country

The Pro sets out a course using various tees and greens

This year it was 6 Holes

8th Green to the 7th Green

7th Fairway to the 5th green

5th Fairway to the 6th Green

5th Fairway to the 4th Green

3rd Tee to the 1st Green

1st Fairway to the 9th Green

Involves going over lots of trees etc

I'm quite fond of this comp, has become or New Year tradition to play it as a family.

 

[need_my_wedge]

Aside from the cross country, we have a Boxing Day Yellowsomes, which is similar to greensomes, but your opponent's choose which of your two drive's you have to play. The onus is on them choosing the worst drive. Unfortunately, they don't have to do that, and a couple of years back one group agreed beforehand that they would play as greensomes, and select each others better ball, guess which team won the event .

It's a fun comp, but would be better if the Yellowsome format was changed so that there is no choice and you have to play the worst drive.

 

[Imurg]

Aside from the cross country, we have a Boxing Day Yellowsomes, which is similar to greensomes, but your opponent's choose which of your two drive's you have to play. The onus is on them choosing the worst drive. Unfortunately, they don't have to do that, and a couple of years back one group agreed beforehand that they would play as greensomes, and select each others better ball, guess which team won the event .

It's a fun comp, but would be better if the Yellowsome format was changed so that there is no choice and you have to play the worst drive.

We played that at my first club and it was known as Gruesomes.

 

[ScienceBoy]

I have only been at two clubs as a member but neither ran any competitions such as these, just weekly staplefords and monthly medals. I think a few charity days ran on a team format but that’s it.

 

[Beedee]

Been a member of two clubs.

The first one did a range of fun comps - 3 clubs + putter, laps of the course (play until you've used all your shots then stop), traffic lights (player chooses 6 holes off red, 6 off yellow, 6 off white), etc. Was good.

Current club - virtually nothing. Any suggestion of anything other than medal or stableford is treated with extreme distrust.

 

[Imurg]

Captain's Day last year we did a "Waltz " 4 ball
1st hole best score counts
2nd hole best 2 count
3rd hole best 3 count
4th hole best 1 counts etc etc..
Quite good fun until you get a 3 score hole and 3 of your 4 blob it....

 

[Ethan]

Team comp where each team of 5 is allowed one club, no two may have the same club. Then you play a round with each team member playing in turn from longest to shortest club, regardless of whether on tee, green, bunker. Usually teams pick a wood, a putter and 3 irons. Then they set off. You have to be careful that if the wedge player, say holes out, the putter needs to tee off at the next and the wood player goes after that. You will get people playing out of green side bunkers with a driver and people towing off on a par-5 with a wedge or putter. Strategy and shotmaking are needed.

 

[nickjdavis]

We used to have a "Village Competition" where players would form teams based around the villages they lived in....teams of 6, usually must include 1 lady.

Play would be in three ball matches with each match being formed of players from three different teams. Winner of each match (highest st'ford score) would earn 3 points for his team, runner-up 2pts, 3rd place 1pt. Tied matches would see the points being shared..e.g. 3 way tie each player earns 2pts, top two tied, each tied player would get 2.5pts. Bottom 2 tied...1.5pts.

Bonus half points available for the highest individual stableford score, nearest the pin and other stuff.

Team with the highest combined points total would win. Ties would be settled based on the combined stableford points score of all players in a team.

Was great fun in the bar watching as the matches finished and the live scoreboard (ok a whiteboard!!) updated Eurovision style, trying to figure out who needed what to win...often went right down to the final two or three groups. Usually we had about 14 or 15 teams in total. Some of the larger villages (i.e. towns!!) might submit two or even three teams.

 

[jim8flog]

We have a competition called "Knightmare Pairs" - a Stableford competition which is holes 1-6 played as Greensomes, holes 7-12 played as Foursomes, and holes 13-18 played as Betterball. Played from the Mens white tees but scored according to the card for the Ladies red tees. Handicaps calculated according to format for each of the three sections .

Common belief is that the winners are the first team who can correctly work out their score...

We used to have similar event - mixed pairs but played as a gross/net comp 6 BB 6 Greensome and 6 Foursome. An event I am proud to have played in because my name is on the trophy.

 

[fundy]

We used to have a "Village Competition" where players would form teams based around the villages they lived in....teams of 6, usually must include 1 lady.

Play would be in three ball matches with each match being formed of players from three different teams. Winner of each match (highest st'ford score) would earn 3 points for his team, runner-up 2pts, 3rd place 1pt. Tied matches would see the points being shared..e.g. 3 way tie each player earns 2pts, top two tied, each tied player would get 2.5pts. Bottom 2 tied...1.5pts.

Bonus half points available for the highest individual stableford score, nearest the pin and other stuff.

Team with the highest combined points total would win. Ties would be settled based on the combined stableford points score of all players in a team.

Was great fun in the bar watching as the matches finished and the live scoreboard (ok a whiteboard!!) updated Eurovision style, trying to figure out who needed what to win...often went right down to the final two or three groups. Usually we had about 14 or 15 teams in total. Some of the larger villages (i.e. towns!!) might submit two or even three teams.

was done as a home nations comp at previous club, 4 teams each put 1 player into each 4 ball. Big breakfast and draw before hand and scores revealed on the board as each group came in, a meal afterwards, was always good fun

 

[hines57]

We have an annual mixed pairs competition which is very well supported. 6 holes betterball, 6 holes foursomes and 6 holes greensomes. It was inaugurated by one of our ex captains and is a great day

 

[Deleted member 23344]

Team comp where each team of 5 is allowed one club, no two may have the same club. Then you play a round with each team member playing in turn from longest to shortest club, regardless of whether on tee, green, bunker. Usually teams pick a wood, a putter and 3 irons. Then they set off. You have to be careful that if the wedge player, say holes out, the putter needs to tee off at the next and the wood player goes after that. You will get people playing out of green side bunkers with a driver and people towing off on a par-5 with a wedge or putter. Strategy and shotmaking are needed.

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