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Did a scramble yesterday and it was a ton of fun.  We were par or under on every hole and ended up shooting a 63 on a par 71 course.  My team consisted of me and another guy who play in the 80s and my best friend and his uncle who shoot around 100-110.  I didn't expect to win so i wasn't surprised when we came in 20th out or 35 or so teams.  What did surprise me is one group posted a 49!!!!  And quite frankly i don't believe it at all.

When me and my friend were looking at the leader board i pointed out that 49 and told him that i call bullcrap.  The guy standing next to me turns and says that was us.  My friend then starts asking him about it and his response was "we are all good at golf".

Just taking this in to perspective that is 22 under par. So a birdie on every hole and 4 eagles.  There is only 3 par 5s and they were all playing extremely long, and all 3 i believe were into the wind.

As this is my 4th scramble i've kinda realized that this kind of thing happens every year and it doesn't bother me as much as it did.

So anyways just wondering the most strokes under par you have seen at a scramble....mine is 22.

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Lowest I have seen in a tourney I played in was a 59 (par 72).  I tend to believe it because cheaters tend to get run out of private clubs.

If it is a scramble where mulligans can be bought I am sure that there are lower scores - but cheating goes on in 95% of them. I remember some higher ups when I worked at another company bragging about their foot wedges to win.

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i call BS as well. the lowest i've ever seen was a 14 under 58 when i played in a 4 man scramble. two of the guys on my team were d-1 college golfers, and the other guy was around my skill level. there is no chance that a bunch of scratch golfers, let alone mid-low handicaps are going to go out and shoot that score. this is precisely why i now refuse to play in any kind of scramble. i hate thieves, and cheating in this case amounts to theft. disgusting.

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A scramble which is run within a club where most of the players either know each other or are at least familiar to each other is usually on the up and up.  A scramble like you played in where the players just sign up as teams from wherever will always raise questions because there is no oversight to prevent the cheaters from just posting whatever score they want.

My Men's club conducts a 5 man scramble to start each season.  It's done as a relaxing tournament to get back into the swing of the game.  Teams are set up by the club's pairings computer and there is no opportunity for cheating, even if any of the guys was so inclined.  In my 22 years in the club, the lowest score I've ever seen in that tournament is 56 on our par 72 course.  Most years the scramble has been won by a 58 or 59.

49 on a par 71 is 13 birdies and 5 eagles.  Sorry but I don't buy it, no matter how good the guy says his team is.

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49 is a stretch but with scrambles it's hard to call people out for cheating a 49 might make me question them. There's 2 things with scrambles that are a given, 1 flat out cheating, 2 some teams show up loaded with really good golfers than can go really low. If I see a low score posted by 4 guys I know can play I'm generally not shocked. Whenever I sign up for a scramble I know that I'm going there to just enjoy the day with friends and try to help out the team. I also only play scrambles that are for charity so at least I know I gave my money to a good cause.

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i have seen near 14-15 under par before. But the teams had now restriction on handicap, so they had two A players and two B players. i believe the two A players were single handicap players near scratch.

After a few years of winning,. they split up the two players, they were brothers.

I have won with -9 under before, that was a 62

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Originally Posted by trackster

Did a scramble yesterday and it was a ton of fun.  We were par or under on every hole and ended up shooting a 63 on a par 71 course.  My team consisted of me and another guy who play in the 80s and my best friend and his uncle who shoot around 100-110.  I didn't expect to win so i wasn't surprised when we came in 20th out or 35 or so teams.  What did surprise me is one group posted a 49!!!!  And quite frankly i don't believe it at all.

When me and my friend were looking at the leader board i pointed out that 49 and told him that i call bullcrap.  The guy standing next to me turns and says that was us.  My friend then starts asking him about it and his response was "we are all good at golf".

Just taking this in to perspective that is 22 under par. So a birdie on every hole and 4 eagles.  There is only 3 par 5s and they were all playing extremely long, and all 3 i believe were into the wind.

As this is my 4th scramble i've kinda realized that this kind of thing happens every year and it doesn't bother me as much as it did.

So anyways just wondering the most strokes under par you have seen at a scramble....mine is 22.


I have played in 4 man select shot tourneys for years, The lowest I have seen on the board was -23, The lowest I have ever shot with a team was -18 and it was a win.

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I have played in 4 man select shot tourneys for years, The lowest I have seen on the board was -23, The lowest I have ever shot with a team was -18 and it was a win.

wow 23 under!?!?!!?!   I was on a team that shot 18 under.  The other 3 guys were friends from my high school golf team, 5 years later 2 of them played college golf and all of us hit the ball long.  But 23 under is absolutely crazy.  The only way I can see this if there were 4 or 5 par 4's with yardages under 330 yards.  And one of the 4 hits it dead straight on the green and they make some eagles on these holes.  It is possible but VERY unlikely.  If they were all scratch golfers and they all hit the ball consistently 300 I could see it.

To the OP.....in a 5 man scramble I could see it but they all had to be scratch or close.  With 5 scratch players you have to believe they birdie every hole at worst.  Its unlikely but I don;'t know who would be so bold as to cheat that bad.

Personally I hate if I win a scramble, mainly because there is so much flat out cheating in scrambles that no one believes you if you play well.  When i played on the team that shot 18 under, we actually got booed by a few people when we went up to get our trophy and prize.  I just assume get drunk and have fun then win cause I don't want to hear it.

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Back in high school, my buddy and I posted a 54 which was 16 birdies, one par on a 3 and one eagle on a 5. We came about 5-6th in the tourney, and top score was iirc a 49 as well. I don't remember how much I thought it was BS at the time, but felt damn good at the score posted. Played some great golf that day (I was an 8 at the time, my buddy was around a 2-3), and the format scrubbed the inevitable bad shots off the board.

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I'll bite.

Last year I was working for a course, and ended up playing about 5 rounds a week, with the group of guys I got to know really well. Typical course regulars, all very active in our mens league. One of our buddies is the president of a professional sports team, who would sponsor numerous tournaments all over our area and put us on his team to play. We were already at an advantage playing the course very often. This particular tournament that we played (for charity - don't remember the cause) offered mulligans and licorice ropes. My friend wanted to make a "charitable contribution" to this organization, and purchased one mulligan per hole (max, per team) and one licorice rope per player (max, per tournament) If you haven't seen the licorice rule before, if you hit your ball within the length of your one licorice rope, to the hole - you simply measure off the amount of distance, tear off the amount of licorice you measured, eat your licorice and count it as a made putt/chip. Our group usually played from the tips, and this tournament was played from the whites. I know I'll get flamed, and we all felt stupid for even turning in our score due to the comparison to the other teams there (there were some good teams, too) - Keep in mind that this score is utilizing all of these "extras". We ended up with birdies on all of the par 3's, 2 eagles on par 4's - the rest birdies, eagles on all the par 5's. Total score was 48 on a par 72 course. -24. The closest score that day was -18 = 54.

This charity knew that people tend to get pencil-whipped at 4-man scrambles, so their prizes for placing in the top 3 weren't anything special. Our team won all longest drives, and closest to the pin contests, with witnesses.

Everyone on our team has made birdie or better on every hole at this course, during regular play.

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My scramble team turned in a 76 last year.  We 30+ handicappers were very proud...until we found out we were second to last one stroke ahead of a team of non-gophers :)

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76 is fairly bad for any quality of golfers in a scramble

Originally Posted by andycook

My scramble team turned in a 76 last year.  We 30+ handicappers were very proud...until we found out we were second to last one stroke ahead of a team of non-gophers :)



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How much rope did you get? If you get  ~3 feet, I have to imagine that is worth 3+ strokes. The mulligans probably weren't super valuable (in a scramble you sort of already have 3 mulligans) for a good group of players.

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I'll bite.

Last year I was working for a course, and ended up playing about 5 rounds a week, with the group of guys I got to know really well. Typical course regulars, all very active in our mens league. One of our buddies is the president of a professional sports team, who would sponsor numerous tournaments all over our area and put us on his team to play. We were already at an advantage playing the course very often. This particular tournament that we played (for charity - don't remember the cause) offered mulligans and licorice ropes. My friend wanted to make a "charitable contribution" to this organization, and purchased one mulligan per hole (max, per team) and one licorice rope per player (max, per tournament) If you haven't seen the licorice rule before, if you hit your ball within the length of your one licorice rope, to the hole - you simply measure off the amount of distance, tear off the amount of licorice you measured, eat your licorice and count it as a made putt/chip. Our group usually played from the tips, and this tournament was played from the whites. I know I'll get flamed, and we all felt stupid for even turning in our score due to the comparison to the other teams there (there were some good teams, too) - Keep in mind that this score is utilizing all of these "extras". We ended up with birdies on all of the par 3's, 2 eagles on par 4's - the rest birdies, eagles on all the par 5's. Total score was 48 on a par 72 course. -24. The closest score that day was -18 = 54.

This charity knew that people tend to get pencil-whipped at 4-man scrambles, so their prizes for placing in the top 3 weren't anything special. Our team won all longest drives, and closest to the pin contests, with witnesses.

Everyone on our team has made birdie or better on every hole at this course, during regular play.



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Played in one few weeks ago and winning score was -19 under, 4 man best ball

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Originally Posted by x129

How much rope did you get? If you get  ~3 feet, I have to imagine that is worth 3+ strokes. The mulligans probably weren't super valuable (in a scramble you sort of already have 3 mulligans) for a good group of players.

On some holes we only ate a little cause we all lipped a putt, or just came short. On our last 2 hoes we realized we still had one and a half ropes to use. Those were the 2 eagles from par 4, we put'em close. And the mulligans in our group goes to whoever had the best shot, to see if they could do it again, but better.

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At least I'm glad to say that in our Men's Club spring scramble, aside from the basic scramble format, we play golf.  No mulligans, no strings to buy, just put the ball in the hole in the fewest strokes possible.  That keeps the game at least at a reasonable level, and with the total team handicaps kept fairly even by the pairing software, nobody runs away with the tournament.  We often have to have a playoff for first place, with 2 or 3 teams tied in the 58-60 range.

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