woody69
Journeyman Pro
So let me first caveat this with it's just a bit of fun... 
I am going away this weekend with 5 other mates and we are playing a mini golf comp / Ryder cup.
Two teams of 3, split between a 4 BBB match and a pairs match playing twice over 2 days. We are also keeping individual stableford scores. All chucking in £20, with the winning team taking £25 each player and then the top 3 stableford players earning a little back to. 1st £25, 2nd £15 and 3rd £5.
Standard points for winning the matches i.e. 1 for win, or 1/2 for the half.
My issue with this is there are actually only 4 points on offer in total as there are only 4 matches played. So I was thinking about creating some "synthetic" matches that I could draw as a blind pairs match out after the 2 matches had finished each day and retrospectively work out what the result of that match would have been had they played together. The only constraint being the original 2-ball couldn't be drawn again.
So:
Match 1 has TEAM A / players A&B v TEAM 1 / players 1&2
Match 2 has TEAM A / player C v TEAM 2 / player 3
Then draw blind
Synthetic Match 3 has TEAM A / Player A v TEAM 1 / Player 3
Synthetic Match 4 has TEAM A / Player B v TEAM 1 / Player 2
Synthetic Match 5 has TEAM A / Player C v TEAM 1 / Player 1
Apart from the obvious not knowing the outcome and thus losing any tension during the actual match are there any obvious problems that would happen with such a format?
Thought it would be quite fun to do in the bar after with the draw as we can have each player give their own score for the hole in order as if the match was being played.
Does this even make sense?
I am going away this weekend with 5 other mates and we are playing a mini golf comp / Ryder cup.
Two teams of 3, split between a 4 BBB match and a pairs match playing twice over 2 days. We are also keeping individual stableford scores. All chucking in £20, with the winning team taking £25 each player and then the top 3 stableford players earning a little back to. 1st £25, 2nd £15 and 3rd £5.
Standard points for winning the matches i.e. 1 for win, or 1/2 for the half.
My issue with this is there are actually only 4 points on offer in total as there are only 4 matches played. So I was thinking about creating some "synthetic" matches that I could draw as a blind pairs match out after the 2 matches had finished each day and retrospectively work out what the result of that match would have been had they played together. The only constraint being the original 2-ball couldn't be drawn again.
So:
Match 1 has TEAM A / players A&B v TEAM 1 / players 1&2
Match 2 has TEAM A / player C v TEAM 2 / player 3
Then draw blind
Synthetic Match 3 has TEAM A / Player A v TEAM 1 / Player 3
Synthetic Match 4 has TEAM A / Player B v TEAM 1 / Player 2
Synthetic Match 5 has TEAM A / Player C v TEAM 1 / Player 1
Apart from the obvious not knowing the outcome and thus losing any tension during the actual match are there any obvious problems that would happen with such a format?
Thought it would be quite fun to do in the bar after with the draw as we can have each player give their own score for the hole in order as if the match was being played.
Does this even make sense?
