Captain and crew?

[CusePhil]

What is it? Is it just another name for a scramble?

[Slashstophat91]

If you don't mind me bumping an old post, this was the only thread I found on the subject. We played captain and crew for a tournament on Saturday. How we played was, we had four guys, me, my dad and 2 of his friends, and we all tee'd off, and picked one of the balls. Say mine was the best, then everyone else picked up their balls and shot from where mine landed. Then maybe my dads was best, we would all pick ours up and go from his. Understand?

[Fourputt]

If you don't mind me bumping an old post, this was the only thread I found on the subject. We played captain and crew for a tournament on Saturday. How we played was, we had four guys, me, my dad and 2 of his friends, and we all tee'd off, and picked one of the balls. Say mine was the best, then everyone else picked up their balls and shot from where mine landed. Then maybe my dads was best, we would all pick ours up and go from his. Understand?

What you described is just a basic scramble. Never heard it called anything else.

[Slashstophat91]

What you described is just a basic scramble. Never heard it called anything else.

Aha, sorry, I was confusing a scramble with a foursome. Anyway, they called it Captain and Crew, and they know more about it than me. Sorry for the mistake. I have been golfing for 12 days, haha.

[MGP]

Don't think of it as a "mistake", call it a "learning experience"...

Heck, I've played in 4-man scrambles that the tournament organizers called a "4-man best ball" -- two very different things!

Anyway it's all fun, keep at it. Golf is a sport for the rest of your life.

[Q.Q.Quillume]

What you described is just a basic scramble. Never heard it called anything else.

I've heard a scramble called captain's choice and super ball, but have never heard of any golf game called captain & crew. My WAG is that somebody came up with "captain & crew"

trying to be cute.

[BritBoy]

ok I'll try to explain captain and crew as we play it....... but no promises it will make any sense.

keep the same order all round for tee shots, just rotating so everyone gets a chance to tee first. The guy that tees off first is the captain. Are you with me

The captain gets to pick who is on his crew for that hole. He can watch the tee shots and call who he wants to go with, but has to call it before the next guy tees off.

e.g player 1 tees off and is captain. Player 2 tees off, goes in the rough and isn’t picked, player 3 tees off straight down the middle so the captain picks him. Player 4 tees off but the captain can’t pick him because he has already chosen a crew.

You play out the hole as stroke play and for the captain and crew score you just take the lowest score. Each hole is worth 1 point for each of the players on the team that wins the hole. The captain can also choose to go alone if he doesn’t like any of the tee shots. If the captain goes alone and wins the hole he gets 2 points. So if you’re down on points with just a couple to go its a way of catching up.

Does any of this make any sense?

[Fourputt]

ok I'll try to explain captain and crew as we play it....... but no promises it will make any sense.

That sounds more like what I'd think of when I picture "Captain and Crew". Over here we call it "Wolf" (short for "Lone Wolf" I think), but it's the same game.

There's more than one way to have fun on the golf course, and there are apparently lots of different names for the same game, as well as different games with the same name.... and then it starts to get confusing....