With FORE° Management Group, you have the opportunity to choose from a variety of fun golf tournament formats to ensure that you and your guests get the most enjoyment out of your company golf day. Deciding on the right format can be crucial in determining your events’ level of success, so yes, it does matter!

Have a scroll through the list below and decide which format you think will best suit you and your guests’ needs.

1. Texas Scramble‍

The Texas Scramble is probably the most-common format for team tournaments. With a perfect balance of keeping things fun and egging each other on, it can be played by 2-, 3-, 4-person or even 5-person teams, only in Thailand! It comprises of using the best of the tee shots as selected by each group of players and all players play their second shots from that spot. However, there is a catch which spices this up a bit, each player should have at least 3 of their drives chosen per group. Once decided, the best of the second shots is determined, then all play their third shots from that spot, and so on until the ball is holed.

Shamble – Almost the same as a scramble except for each player plays out from the point where the best drive has been choses. Usually the best one or two scores per group will count.

2. Best Ball‍

In a Best Ball tournament, all players of each team play their own balls on each hole as they would in a standard round of strokeplay/stableford. The highest stableford score among all team members serves as the team score and is written on the scorecard under that individual’s name. Best Ball can also be called Four Ball Betterball, and variations include 1-2-3 Best Ball depending on the quality of your field.

3. Lone Ranger

‍Lone Ranger, which is also known as Money Ball, Yellow Ball or Pink Ball, puts the responsibility on one player per team per hole to come through with a good score. Players in a group of four alternate as the “Lone Ranger;” on each hole, the score of the elected Lone Ranger is collectively totalled with the low score of the other three team members for the team score.

4. Peoria System

‍The Peoria System can be compared to a 1-day handicap system for a stroke play tournament. In this format, most of the players do not have established handicaps so it is a way of making it both fair and competitive for all, as well as fun of course! It allows all players to, during the round, deduce something resembling a handicap allowance and apply it to their scores. With Peoria, certain holes of the course are preselected (but in secret, until after the round), then doing some multiplication and division from the total score of the individual. The preselected holes are usually selected at random levels of difficulty. It is a rather popular format used in company outings and charity events. Confused? Check out the example below to see how it would work in reality.

THE PEORIA SYSTEM - EXAMPLE

1. Once the round is completed, FORE Management Group announce the identities of the six secret holes.
2. Player A finds those six holes on his/her scorecard and totals up the total strokes for those six holes. Let's say that total is 30.
3. So Player A multiples 30 by 3, which is 90.
4. The golf course par is, let's say, 72. So subtract that from 90, and Player A gets 18.
5. Now multiply 18 by 80-percent, which is 14 (round off).
6. And that tells us that 14 is Player A's Peoria System handicap.
7. Let's say Player A's gross score was 86, so subtract 14 from 86.
8. And that is Player A's Peoria System net score: 86 minus 14, which is 72.

5. Callaway System

‍As with Peoria, the Callaway System is a quasi-handicapping system that can be implemented for a stroke play event in which most of the participants do not have handicaps. The Callaway System involves referring to a chart once every player has completed their round to determine a handicap deduction and handicap allowance. When the Callaway System is in use, all competitors tee off and play stroke play, scoring in the regular method with just one exception, a double par is the maximum score on any given hole (i.e., on a par 4, 8 is the maximum score). Following the round, gross scores are totalled and based on each golfer’s total score (using the double par maximum), each golfer sums up a set number of worst scores from their scorecard, then applies a second adjustment that may add or subtract additional strokes. The chart used to determine the handicap deduction and handicap adjustment is shown below:

THE CALLOWAY SYSTEM - TABLE

For more information about our formats and deciding which one is best for your event, contact one of our event planning experts today or email chris@foremanagement.com

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