I'll be playing my first touranemt ever next week!!

[Golfaway]

Saturday, the next week!
It's a local match restricted to our club members. It's a really interesting format as well. I don't think I've ever read about it anywhere before. It's like an endurance challenge, each player receives a flag with his name on it and starts playing. Once you reach the course's par+your handicap, you stop playing and stick the flag where you finished your strokes. The last flag wins the game.

Let's take myself for example; I'm a 28 handicapper. Once I play 70 strokes (the course's par)+28 strokes (my handicap) (98 strokes in total) I stick the flag with my name where I finished and I stop playing.

So let's say I finished 18 holes without finishing my 98 strokes, I go on playing from hole number one again until I finish my strokes. The person whose flag is stuck the farthest from the starting point wins the game.

A pretty interesting and fun-to-play format. Have you ever played something like this before??

Oh btw, the match is named after the 80+ years old waiter at the club's clubhouse. He's the oldest guy serving in the club and the match is played in his honor.

http://www.ascgolf.com/matches.htm

[TN94z]

I've never heard of that....

[netsniper]

I've never heard of that....

neither have I. sounds weird, but could be fun!! not my style of tournament tho thats for sure

[Golfaway]

I played like crap. I finished my 92 strokes and stuck my flag on the 15th fairway. I did some really CRAPPY scores like a 9 on the par 4 first and 12 on the par 4 fifth (2 successive out of bounds)!!!!

Funny thing, I wasted a birdie put on the par 5 13th by a just 2 inches. Settled for a par. That was my only par of the day. Yes, I was THAT bad. But it's my first match and the draw put me with 2 players I've never played with before so it was a bit tense.

But one of my golf buddies won the match which made it up for me. It was really fun and a good day nevertheless.

http://www.ascgolf.com/matches.htm