The Victory Cup!

[OCdude12]

No, its not a new PGA event, instead a competition a group of my buddies and I are starting and there has been much debating back and forth on some issues so I come here for suggestions.

So the premise behind 'The Victory Cup' is that we have 4 guys from Nor Cal and 4 guys from So Cal, so we thought we'd get some "friendly" competition going between the two in a Ryder Cup style format. The first round we are playing at Metropolitan Golf Links in Oakland, playing a 2 man scramble match play format, also testing our drinking skills as each player must consume at least 4 drinks every 6 holes (beer or shots) for a total of 12 drinks in the round. However, after multiple arguments on how to divy up the strokes we still haven't come to a conclusion.

Here's the breakdown of player's handicaps for each team and then I'm open to hear what you guys would think is the most fair way of giving strokes:

North Team
Player A: 1.7 index, CH of 2
Player B: 3.8 index, CH of 4
Player C: 4.1 index, CH of 5
Player D: 7.7 index, CH of 9

South Team
Player A: 9.0 index, CH of 10
Player B: 16.6 index, CH of 19
Player C: 21.2 index, CH of 24
Player D: no index, giving him a CH of 13

Now, some people have been saying to take a simple average of the 2 teammates course handicap's to create our team handicap and some have been talking about using a system of 35% of the lowest players handicap plus 15% of the highest players handicap. I have no idea if one is better than the other or if there is a certain formula other than either of those two that would be fair to both teams, but if we don't come up with a solid solution soon, could make for quite the argument in the parking lot beforehand, (the South whines a lot about the number of strokes somehow won't be enough). Thanks for any and all suggestions and let's go North!!!