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zombywoof Member

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A person RSVP'd for a local meetup golf event (2 slots) with "my girlfriend and I will play best ball", can anyone please clarify?

Thanks...


SamCreamer Established Member

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They'll both play every hole with their own ball, the one with the better score of the two will count as their score. They play as one entity.

edit: Im PRETTY sure that's what he's referring to, someone please confirm this for me


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Is this a tournament? Best Ball typically means what the poster above said, but unless it is a tournament that is a rare format to play.

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CraiginKSA Well Established Member

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Some people also confuse best ball with the scramble format.  They think that best ball means best shot.  Email them back and explain that best ball/better ball means best score.  Scramble means best shot.

Occam's razor


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Thanks for the replies so far - no it isn't a tournament, but a very informal outing where (I would think) score is pretty much irrelevant, which led to my confusion...


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I would have to agree with CraiginKSA.  Many people confuse best ball with scramble.  I think what they meant was scramble but thought best ball was the format where they hit from the best shot.

I see this confusion even among regular golfers.

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Eleven Established Member

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I always thought Best Ball and Scramble were the same thing!


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Best Ball and Scramble events were about equally popular in the 1980s. Seems in 1990s the Scramble started to take over.

Best Ball was popular when held at exclusive courses where normal invites were rare. Play in a Best Ball at a famous course, and you have your own 18-hole score for the afternoon (nice memories, and a score you can post).

You don't get that in scrambles. Every year there's one scramble where my group uses a half-dozen of my approach shots, and I wonder what I would have scored on my own that day.

Scrambles are built for speed . You play the best shot of your group again and again. Last week on a long, tight Par 4, our second guy bombed one 270 yards down the middle; the rest of us skipped our drives. Also, the last three scrambles used a two-putt maximum rule. If everyone misses the first putt, you add a stroke and move on.

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zipazoid Great Member

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Originally Posted by Eleven

I always thought Best Ball and Scramble were the same thing!

Nope.

Best Ball = you play your own ball the entire hole.

Scramble = you play the best shot out of your group the entire hole.


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