Mens Games?

[Club Rat]

Hello everyone @ TST

Our club has a weekly Saturday morning organized game which is played

from April 1st through September 30th.

We keep the total earnings though the season and award top honors

to be Captains for the end of the year final event,

a Ryder Cup Match the first Saturday of October.

It is very popular and builds camaraderie among members.

The game is suited for golfers of all abilities and participation has over 1K rounds per season.

The game which we play is a "2 man team - blind partner draw with gross and net skins"

Our efforts to keep interest and add variety on occasion,

we select to use a different format through the season, such as the Stableford competition.

So my question is, does anyone have suggestions for a suitable game for a large field of players?

Thanks, Club Rat

[killo]

I used to belong to a club that had a weekly game for members. They played on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Anyone could play as long as they had a handicap or had someone that played regularly vouch for them. Entry was $12. The money was split 6 ways. Points and best ball front, back and overall. Bogeys-1 pt, pars-2 pts, birdies-4 pts, eagles 6 pts. The top 3 scores on each hole were used for points. That way if an odd number of players showed up everyone could still play.

Teams were foursomes split by hdcp. For 24 players there were 6 teams. They would fill the teams starting with the lowest hdcp on team 1, next lowest on team 2 and so on to team 6. They were the "A" players. The "B" player with the lowest hdcp would be put on team 6, the next on team 5 and so on back to team 1. The lowest "C" player on team 1 going to highest on team 6. Lowest "D" player on team 6 with the highest on team 1.

I hope that made sense. It basically went like this:

Lowest A ------------> Highest A

Highest B <----------- Lowest B

Lowest C --------------> Highest C

Highest D <------------ Lowest D

[killo]

I am currently playing in a group that plays every Sunday. In the Charlotte area there is a group of 7 courses that make up the Carolina Trail. Everyone but me is a member of the Trail so they play a different course each week. One of my friends invited me to play one week and was then invited to play on a regular basis. We have two foursomes that play best ball against each other where only the top two scores each hole count. The foursomes are mixed up each week to give everyone a chance to play with each other. Everyone's handicap are fairly close (4-10) where the teams are pretty equal. We put up $20 each and split it up $5 best ball front, back and overall. The other $5 goes towards skins.