spawn_ukuk
Tour Rookie
But in the end stableford is stroke play, lower stroke you get lower stableford wil be
Stableford V Strokes
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bladeplayer
Money List Winner
Not realy . a blob on the card won differenciate between 10 shots or 20 shots it will just show no points ... all 20 shots will be added in the strokeplay ..
spawn_ukuk
Tour Rookie
I just mean on how you approach the game
alnecosse
Assistant Pro
Happened today in our thurs medal (stableford) my playing partner 2 n/rs on card entered score and went straight to top of leaderboard. Strokeplay he would have went to bottom.
Bobmysterkaymer
Head Pro
Strokeplay for me, but loving matchplay club knockouts at the moment. Feels like I'm playing in the Ryder cup!!!
Foxholer
Blackballed
I thought one reason those in favour of stableford scoring for higher handicappers would be to speed up play? With this modified system you'll have to have all players putt out on each hole, so it'll be just as slow if not slower than stroke play
A quote from why it was created - he was a +1 golfer
"I was practising on the 2nd fairway at Wallasey Golf Club one day in the latter part of 1931 when the thought ran through my mind that many players in competitions got very little fun since they tore up their cards after playing only a few holes and I wondered if anything could be done about it"
Both formats are fine by me. As already pointed out, Handicap is stableford-ised.
As long as you are not holding anyone up, then finishing even though you're 'out of the hole' is fine by me too.
StrangelyBrown
Tour Winner
Foxy, I wasn't meaning slow play was why Frank Stableford created his scoring system. I was meaning that some people in this thread want Stableford scoring for cat 3 & 4 golfers and to ban them from stroke play competitions in order to speed up play.
Ethan
Money List Winner
There are arguments in favour of one versus the other. The argument for stable ford is that one bad hole shouldn't drag down the whole round, so a 'cap' is placed on how bad any one hole can be. For good players, it shouldn't make much difference as you can't afford holes worse than net double bogey on the card.
On the pace of play, it should make a difference, but probably doesn't. Many higher players don't pick up when they should. At the recent Luke Donald event at Bearwood Lakes, one guy was playing his 7th shot on the first from the side of the ladies tee. A supercomputer at NASA is still trying to compute his score for the hole.
On the pace of play, it should make a difference, but probably doesn't. Many higher players don't pick up when they should. At the recent Luke Donald event at Bearwood Lakes, one guy was playing his 7th shot on the first from the side of the ladies tee. A supercomputer at NASA is still trying to compute his score for the hole.
Foxholer
Blackballed
In my experience, it's Cat 2 and 3 players that are the slowest players in Stableford comps.
As long as etiquette is applied, there's no reason why Cat 4 players shouldn't play stroke-play imo. Just don't put them out first.
And have effective marshalling!
StrangelyBrown
Tour Winner
:thup:
bladeplayer
Money List Winner
Apologies , yes i aproach every game to shoot as low on each hole as possible .. not working at present tho ha ..
Andy808
Tour Winner
I like both but I do prefer stroke play. Being a high handicapper I enjoy the challenge of stoke play and playing a steady 18 holes, whereas with stableford it does give the ability to win on occassions. I do regularly feature in the top 4 or 5 in medals so I think I'm heading on the right direction.
We are trying to attract memberships into most clubs. How will you do that if you turn round and say - thanks for your cash but you play off too high a handicap to play in a lot of our competitions. Medal golf doesn't have to be elitist as long as players are educated about getting a provisional in play at the first opportunity, letting groups through when searching and being ready to play when its their turn. Simple basics. It isn't really the number of shots that's the issue but all that goes before and after
