Texas scramble handicapping

[chrisd]

I was just wondering what other clubs do, we do teams of 4, add together and take exactly 10% off the score. I feel this vastly favours the low handicappers, and last weeks scramble was a huge win by the single figure guys (again)

If you need a player a 20 handicapper is only going to get 2 shots off the score whereas a 6 handicapper will get .6 shots off but should save much more for the team than the 1.4 shot advantage.

Any other ways of handicapping that could be fairer to all of the teams including the low guys?

 

[delc]

I was just wondering what other clubs do, we do teams of 4, add together and take exactly 10% off the score. I feel this vastly favours the low handicappers, and last weeks scramble was a huge win by the single figure guys (again)

If you need a player a 20 handicapper is only going to get 2 shots off the score whereas a 6 handicapper will get .6 shots off but should save much more for the team than the 1.4 shot advantage.

Any other ways of handicapping that could be fairer to all of the teams including the low guys?

We use 10% of the combined handicap, and try to draw teams that include a low, a medium and a high handicapper to equalise things out a bit.

 

[chrisd]

We use 10% of the combined handicap, and try to draw teams that include a low, a medium and a high handicapper to equalise things out a bit.

Ours is always done by entering all the team, I don't think anyone would agree to change

 

[fundy]

The low guys at ours tend to all play together in this, cant seem to beat the higher handicappers though. Last 2 of these at ours have been won by a team getting more than 6 shots

 

[chrisd]

The low guys at ours tend to all play together in this, cant seem to beat the higher handicappers though. Last 2 of these at ours have been won by a team getting more than 6 shots

It's happened at ours occasionally too but lately the "dream team" have trounced others. A good 8 to 14 handicap group will often do well but, as I said, if a player drops out you really don't want to recruit a 25 handicapper if a 6 is available

 

[Doh]

With ours you put your name on a sheet and handicaps are spread evenly between teams. It's the fairest way without a doubt IMHO.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

I was just wondering what other clubs do, we do teams of 4, add together and take exactly 10% off the score. I feel this vastly favours the low handicappers, and last weeks scramble was a huge win by the single figure guys (again)

If you need a player a 20 handicapper is only going to get 2 shots off the score whereas a 6 handicapper will get .6 shots off but should save much more for the team than the 1.4 shot advantage.

Any other ways of handicapping that could be fairer to all of the teams including the low guys?

We have two scrambles -a social one and a semi serious one ( board comp )

Social one is 15% of you combined HC taken off your gross score and the board one is 10%

 

[NorfolkShaun]

My old place was 10% of total.

Have a scramble in a couple of weeks at the new club, teams are drawn but not sure how handicap is done

 

[pbrown7582]

Only played in a comp once and there were no h/caps but teams were drawn with a low medium and high in each.

 

[AmandaJR]

Only ever known 10% of handicaps with an upper limit and only ever played in them won by the low handicap guys. I think a drawn comp with a range of players is a much better option.

 

[moogie]

We have 10% of combined/total handicaps
Max 6 shots normally
Sometimes 8 ( iirc ).....??

But we often have little quirks like
Each player must use a tee shot on a par 3
Or
Switch it to each player must use a tee shot on a par 5

Just to change things about a bit

Quite interesting when you only have 1 player tee off on the last par3 hole.......no pressure, haha

 

[JezzE]

Ours is always done by entering all the team, I don't think anyone would agree to change

At a golf club? I find that hard to believe...

 

[chrisd]

We have 10% of combined/total handicaps
Max 6 shots normally
Sometimes 8 ( iirc ).....??

But we often have little quirks like
Each player must use a tee shot on a par 3
Or
Switch it to each player must use a tee shot on a par 5

Just to change things about a bit

Quite interesting when you only have 1 player tee off on the last par3 hole.......no pressure, haha

Some interesting ideas there but maybe they favour the low handicappers even more

 

[duncan mackie]

At a golf club? I find that hard to believe...

naughty naughty :whoo:

10% combined against a medal card is the mathematically fair solution for 4s as already established = higher handicap teams can still win but generally need 3/4 bandits rather than just the 2 plus a bit of support of AM/AM team events

scrambles are supposed to be fun, not events carefully entered to win - drawn teams from 4 hats is the way to go.

shouldn't be a ceiling - that's daft

should be a requirement that each player's tee shot is used at least 4 times

 

[delc]

We normally specify a minimum number of tee shots that each player has to take in a Texas Scramble; say 5 for a 3-ball or 4 for a 4-ball.

 

[moogie]

Just to add
We always have 4 drives per player
2 "spares"

 

[richart]

We use 10% of the combined handicap, and try to draw teams that include a low, a medium and a high handicapper to equalise things out a bit.

That is what we do, but last two I played in someone dropped out so the Pro played. Guess which team won both events ?

 

[delc]

Just to add
We always have 4 drives per player
2 "spares"

Good idea, as it stops teams using their best player's tees shots all the time.

 

[backwoodsman]

Ours is always done by entering all the team, I don't think anyone would agree to change

It's a "fun" format and outwith the rules, and so should be entered with that spirit. But given the OP, that low h/cs always win, aren't there enough "disgruntled" higher h/cs to push for a change?

 

[Oddsocks]

Ours is 10% of combined with four tee shots to count

We had ours at the weekend with a team consisting of 11, 16, 18,23 the later two being two seniors well into their 70's

We won with a net 59.2

Just shows it doesn't need to be low cappers to win it