- Stableford Points are awarded for your score on each hole on either a net or handicap basis. 1 point for a bogey, 2 for a par, 3 for a birdie, 4 for an eagle and 5 if you bag an albatross (fat chance). Anything worse than a bogey, Pick up and stop wasting everyone else’s time.
- Foursomes Two players form a team and hit alternate shots at each hole until they hole out. One player tees off at the even holes and one on the odd holes. Handicap allowance is half of the combined total of both players.
- Skins Each hole is worth one ‘skin’ and whoever wins the hole gets the skin. If no-one wins the hole outright then the ‘skin’ is carried over so the next hole is worth 2 skins, and so on until someone sinks that pressure putt.
- Greensomes Matchplay game for teams of two where both partners drive and they choose the best drive and then play alternate shots for the rest of hole as in foursomes. For handicap matchplay, take the combined handicaps of both teams and the lower pair gives seven-eighths of the difference.
- Fourball-Betterball Teams of two play their own ball and count the ‘better ball’ or score on each hole. Played in matchplay, handicaps are three-quarters of the difference form the lowest handicapper.
- Singles The classic form of golf: play off scratch or full handicap difference.
- Texas Scramble Players play in groups of three of four. All drive and then select the best shot and mark it. Everyone then hits the next shot from this point. Repeat procedure with each shot until you hole out. This event is played off handicap and if you do not have special tables, add all the teams member’s handicaps together and divide by ten. Deduct the handicap from the final total.
- Mulligans Ever wanted to play a shot again? Give each person a mulligan and you disregard a bad shot and play it again.
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