League players - does your league have one, or several, 'event' nights throughout the season?

[NEOHMark]

Ours does.  We have four event nights in a 24-week season.  The first is tonight....the annual 'two-clubber' event (three clubber actually - two clubs plus a mandatory putter).  The two-clubber is probably my least favorite of the four, but it does force you to play different shots with the same club(s).  I'm using a 5h and a PW tonight.

Our four events are:

The aforementioned 'Two Clubber':  Individual competition, pretty much self-explanatory.  Play a round with only two clubs plus putter, pre-selected at the start of the round.  Handicapped event.

The Florida Scramble (Hawaiian shirts mandatory): Team event - also called the 'Step-Aside Scramble'.  Starts like a regular scramble with every team member hitting the first shot, but the player whose shot is chosen cannot play the next shot and has to sit out for that 1 shot. Whoever's shot is then chosen must sit out the next shot, and so on and so forth. It is a running "sit out" so if you sink the putt on the green, you sit out the next tee shot.  Scratch event, though the teams are built by the league director so that the overall team hcps are as close as possible.

The 'Red Ball Classic':  3-man Team event - where the onus is on one player per hole to come through for the team. Each team will receive a designated ball (called the Red Ball) and a team player will use only that ball on his designated hole. Team score for each hole will be that designated player’s net score for that hole. The possession of the Red Ball will be rotated hole-by-hole so that each player gets to use the Red Ball, unless it is lost before they get their chance. The rest of the team will play their own ball, for use in skins play, as usual until they take ownership of the Red Ball. For example, Player A gets the Red Ball on the 1st hole, then hands it off to player B on the 2nd, who hands it off to Player C on the 3rd hole. And so on. This rotation is kept until completion of play or loss of Red Ball. Team must finish with the Red Ball and produce it to the League Secretary upon completion of play or the entire team is eliminated from the competition.  Handicapped event.

The 'Bramble' (sometimes called a Reverse Scramble):  Team event, can be played either 'best ball' or cumulative (we play cumulative net scores) - Each hole starts like a Scramble, where each team member hits their tee shot and the best shot is selected. Then from that selected spot, team members place or drop their own ball (with a foot or so) and each team member hits their own ball from that point on to the end of the hole.  The team score on any hole is the sum of the net scores for the team members.  Handicapped event.

I think we do these event nights partially to fill in four weeks - as we do two 8-week halves to the season, with four seedings from each half playing against each other in two-week elimination rounds, then the finalists going head-to-head in a two-week, 18-hole combined round at the end....all match play at the end.  But it's a nice way to break up the season a bit with some fun.

Do many leagues do this sort of thing?

[walk18]

Ours does. We have four event nights in a 24-week season. The first is tonight....the annual 'two-clubber' event (three clubber actually - two clubs plus a mandatory putter). The two-clubber is probably my least favorite of the four, but it does force you to play different shots with the same club(s). I'm using a 5h and a PW tonight.

Our four events are:

The aforementioned 'Two Clubber': Individual competition, pretty much self-explanatory. Play a round with only two clubs plus putter, pre-selected at the start of the round. Handicapped event.

The Florida Scramble (Hawaiian shirts mandatory): Team event - also called the 'Step-Aside Scramble'. Starts like a regular scramble with every team member hitting the first shot, but the player whose shot is chosen cannot play the next shot and has to sit out for that 1 shot. Whoever's shot is then chosen must sit out the next shot, and so on and so forth. It is a running "sit out" so if you sink the putt on the green, you sit out the next tee shot. Scratch event, though the teams are built by the league director so that the overall team hcps are as close as possible.

The 'Red Ball Classic': 3-man Team event - where the onus is on one player per hole to come through for the team. Each team will receive a designated ball (called the Red Ball) and a team player will use only that ball on his designated hole. Team score for each hole will be that designated player’s net score for that hole. The possession of the Red Ball will be rotated hole-by-hole so that each player gets to use the Red Ball, unless it is lost before they get their chance. The rest of the team will play their own ball, for use in skins play, as usual until they take ownership of the Red Ball. For example, Player A gets the Red Ball on the 1st hole, then hands it off to player B on the 2nd, who hands it off to Player C on the 3rd hole. And so on. This rotation is kept until completion of play or loss of Red Ball. Team must finish with the Red Ball and produce it to the League Secretary upon completion of play or the entire team is eliminated from the competition. Handicapped event.

The 'Bramble' (sometimes called a Reverse Scramble): Team event, can be played either 'best ball' or cumulative (we play cumulative net scores) - Each hole starts like a Scramble, where each team member hits their tee shot and the best shot is selected. Then from that selected spot, team members place or drop their own ball (with a foot or so) and each team member hits their own ball from that point on to the end of the hole. The team score on any hole is the sum of the net scores for the team members. Handicapped event.

I think we do these event nights partially to fill in four weeks - as we do two 8-week halves to the season, with four seedings from each half playing against each other in two-week elimination rounds, then the finalists going head-to-head in a two-week, 18-hole combined round at the end....all match play at the end. But it's a nice way to break up the season a bit with some fun.

Do many leagues do this sort of thing?

not mine. All that stuff sounds confusing. We play head to head matchups with some longest drive and ctp contests thrown in.