Medal or Stableford

Stableford is a hackers game. It just is. That said, i have always thought that cat 1 and 2 should play medal, cats 3 and 4 stableford. Keep things moving.

We are mainly medal, a few winter stablefords, and two bogey.
 
Thanks for all your replies, the course im a member at has mainly medals, a bogey, 5 club and a few stablefords. Club im looking at has 18 comps, only 4/5 medals. Not sure what I fancy more.
 
Stableford for me. Would guess the weekend comps are fairly equally split but never really compared tbh.
 
Will reserve judgement for now.
Not played a stroke play medal yet. Joined my club before Xmas and through the Winter its stablefords - my first stableford medal is tomorrow having just played in roll ups (stableford) to date.

All my competitive golf in the past (Societies and Charity Days) has been stableford or texas scramble - will be a bit nervous at my first stroke play medal, knowing a bad hole can cost you dear!
 
Almost all comps are Stableford at my club. Sometimes (like four or five times a year, maybe) we have a comp where the field is divided and the cat 1and 2 players play medal and the rest Stableford. I think if we higher handicaps were forced to play medal, we would never make it back to the club house in daylight, to be honest. Comp rounds last long enough as it is.
 
Medal all the way s/fold bit boring i find i play better when it's setup harder and when you win a medal/stroke event it feels that little be more special. I guess it's cause truly every shot counts
 
Hosel Fade said:
Medal for all the reasons stated, just wish people would get it in their head that they can pick up for the hole if they're not posting a winning/qualifying score and just post NR.
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How does that work if you are playing for money? We always have a best front nine, back nine and overall during our round so NR'ing means loss of dosh. We don't hold anyone up even if there are a couple of snowmen on the card.
 
Mostly Stableford comps but enough medal to make it interesting

I like both (and there's a breed of player who play off circa 14 and typically get lots of 3-pointers... and just as many blobs, and its a lot of fun watching them collapse at medal time ;) )

Social golf is mostly Stableford with match-play scoring between the pairs (for the side bets)
 
t0m said:
Yer i remember seeing that to think it was 7 on a par 4
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That can't be right can it? Suppose you get two shots on this par 4, having a 'mare, pick up, get's recorded as a 7. Woo hoo 1 point in stableford!! :-)

A better max score for a hole is lowest number that equates to blob for that player.
 
I'm guessing the "truest form of golf" point of view is Scratch medal golf yes ?
 
Just checked and managed about 27 of each last year so play anything (apart from 9 holes qualifiers) - ultimately it is the medals that mean the most to me as the harder test of golf and with striving to come down in handicap and breaking 80 for the first time ever and repeating it several times was medal scores.

Winning 2 medals in the season made it even better !
 
Medal for me. My progress last year was down to shooting good scores in medals and that's where i can see it potentially happening this year. Shooting a net level par in a howling gale when the CSS goes up by three shots is very satisfying.
 
Seem to play nothing but medals at our place, I don't mind what the format is really, as someone else said earlier in the thread more than a single blob on my card and it gets difficult to get close to 36 points.

Saying that, we play medals all through the winter, which I think is wrong, as soon as balls start getting lost in the fairway comps should be stablefords.
 
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