Stableford or Medal?

I will play anything. I try to play as many comps as possible but can't play every week so just have to accept whatever is going. Consequently, I have learnt to enjoy all types of scoring. I must say though that the more you learn to love medal, the more you will play to the best of your ability.
 
I love playing both, and agree medal is the purest form. But I wouldn't dismiss stableford as some do. It's all very well saying you can just blob a hole, but you 'aint gonna get any points. So it's similar to a medal,if too many shots are taken then there's less chance of posting a decent score.

Golfmmad.
 
I guess the only redeeming feature about medals and having a nightmare is the battle then to try and keep the nett over par figure as low as possible. In our club championship I had a 7 on a par 3 and was out in +11 and so only had one stroke of my handicap left. I knew I wouldn't qualify and make the cut but I was trying to keep it as respectable as possible. I ended up +18 (nett 76) so my back nine was marginally better.

I find in stableford I know where I am more and so tend to get carried away and think about what I need to do in order to get back to level 2's or thinking that if I par the next for 3 points etc whereas in medal play I don't really worry about the score and just try and make par or bogey at worse.
 
Not in our mid week medals, as there were too many bandits bunging cards in to increase their h/cap. However, the proper weekend medals (with boards and pots), you get 0.1 back if you N/R.
 
Not in our mid week medals, as there were too many bandits bunging cards in to increase their h/cap. However, the proper weekend medals (with boards and pots), you get 0.1 back if you N/R.
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So you mean the Committee has declared all midweek SBs non-qualifying? That seems rather bizarre.
 
They are all qualifying, so you can go up 0.1 if you are over CSS, but you do need to complete a card. You can also get cut, and win sweep.

What people were doing, is turning up at 18.00, signing in, playing one hole, N/R, straight to the bar, and up 0.1.

Do this often enough, and it gets ridiculous. They can then go out in the board comps and shoot the lights out.
As a result, the comittee decided to stop N/R's from getting 0.1 back, except in major weekend comps, when you do. Yes, you still get the parachute brigade at the weekend too, but to a lesser extend. At least they are playing in daylight with a half reasonable chance of getting 18 holes in.
 
I know I mentioned this before in other debates, but I really find the whole notion of 0.1 back for failing to complete the course mystyfying. As in murphs club it is almost rewarding golfers for not playing all 18 holes irrespective of the score and giving them the chance to come back off a higher handicap and claim the bigger pots.

That said the behaviour there of signing and playing one hole (if they went out at all) seems very cheap and low. I honestly don't think we have that problem. There are a lot of guys that go out really early at weekends (before you can sign in for comps) but they always play off the yellows and so don't seem fussed on competitive golf.

Don't get me wrong, if there is a genuine reason for an N/R I'm all in favour of handing one in. That includes not going back late in a round for a lost ball etc but I just think you should hand your card in, get N/R'd and no change to the handicap
 
They are all qualifying, so you can go up 0.1 if you are over CSS, but you do need to complete a card. You can also get cut, and win sweep.

What people were doing, is turning up at 18.00, signing in, playing one hole, N/R, straight to the bar, and up 0.1.

Do this often enough, and it gets ridiculous. They can then go out in the board comps and shoot the lights out.
As a result, the comittee decided to stop N/R's from getting 0.1 back, except in major weekend comps, when you do. Yes, you still get the parachute brigade at the weekend too, but to a lesser extend. At least they are playing in daylight with a half reasonable chance of getting 18 holes in.
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OK, I misunderstood. I thought you meant nobody got 0.1 back midweek.

There used to be a rule that you had to complete 15 holes for a card to be qualifying, so that would take care of the guys who play one hole. Playing one hole and quitting is a blatant tactic, so perhaps a better way would be to suspend the handicap of any player who does that without good reason.
 
They are all qualifying, so you can go up 0.1 if you are over CSS, but you do need to complete a card. You can also get cut, and win sweep.

What people were doing, is turning up at 18.00, signing in, playing one hole, N/R, straight to the bar, and up 0.1.

Do this often enough, and it gets ridiculous. They can then go out in the board comps and shoot the lights out.
As a result, the comittee decided to stop N/R's from getting 0.1 back, except in major weekend comps, when you do. Yes, you still get the parachute brigade at the weekend too, but to a lesser extend. At least they are playing in daylight with a half reasonable chance of getting 18 holes in.
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They must be desperate to win. With only going up 0.1 it must take them 6 months or so, to get a couple of shots back. If they were to persistently do this, I would just ban them from all qualifying comps.
 
But if you are hovvering at 11.4, like me, with a big comp coming up, then a quick midweeker and up we go, without the risk of 18 holes and a cut. Only takes 10 minutes, doesn't even dent the drinking time. In fact you can leave it on the bar, play a quick medal, and then carry on with the pint.
 
But if you are hovvering at 11.4, like me, with a big comp coming up, then a quick midweeker and up we go, without the risk of 18 holes and a cut. Only takes 10 minutes, doesn't even dent the drinking time. In fact you can leave it on the bar, play a quick medal, and then carry on with the pint.
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See, I can't begin to understand why someone would do that. I assume your tongue is firmly in cheek, but someone who would really do that should be kicked out of the big comp.
 
Mate, I am gutted to be that near to going up to 12, and will do everything in my power, including ritual goat sacrifice on Saturday night, to get back to a 10 point something on Sunday.
 
Being off a high handicap and new to competition golf i prefer stableford at the moment. As someone else mentioned, if a particular hole is getting out of hand (ie. you have no chance of scoring on it), just pick up and move on.
At the moment i am inclined to have the odd disaster hole which would crucify a Strokeplay score, but a stableford keeps you in the running to the end.
I will look forward to stroke play matches when (or if) i can improve a fair bit more.
 
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