Crowd sourcing an order of merit format

[Pete]

A small group of members at our club get together on a Wednesday evening from spring to autumn (fall). We play different formats depending on the number of players who turn up, typically:

• 3 players - split sixes
• 4 - better ball match play
• 5 - individual stableford
• 6 - 2 teams of 3, 1 or 2 scores to count stableford
• 7 - individual stableford
• 8 - 2 teams of 4, 2 scores to count stableford

I think 8 is the most we have ever had.

We would like to have an order or merit running and crown a winner for the best individual player throughout the season, but I can't think of an obvious way to do this due to the changing number of players per week, and the different number of events that each player will play in total.

We could just always record individual scores even when playing team games, but ideally we would somehow award individual points for winning regardless of team or individual format. Also, I want to make sure that winning a 7 man individual stableford is rewarded as being much harder than winning a 2 x 4 man team stableford.

Do any of you guys run anything similarly informal and/or do you have any ideas of what we can do?