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8 articles tagged “golf formats”.
Golf leagues offer regular, structured golf with the same group of players over a season. Many play nine holes on a weekday evening, making them perfect for busy golfers. They combine competition…
Modified Stableford is a variation of Stableford scoring that rewards birdies and eagles more heavily and penalises bogeys and worse. It encourages aggressive, attacking golf and has been used in…
Your Course Handicap tells you how many strokes you receive on a particular course. But in competitions, you often don't receive all of them. A handicap allowance, a percentage of your Course…
A shotgun start is a way of starting a golf event with every group teeing off at the same time, each on a different hole. It's common at golf days, charity events, society outings and some…
Golf is mostly an individual game, but team competitions produce some of its most exciting moments. International team matches between continents and nations draw huge crowds, while club matches…
Golf is a wonderful game to share with a partner. It gives you hours outdoors together, a shared hobby, holidays with a purpose and a lifetime of friendly competition. But it can also test a…
The scramble is the most popular format for golf days, charity events and corporate outings. Every player tees off, the team chooses the best shot, everyone plays from there, and so on until the ball…
Match play is golf's oldest form of competition and, for many golfers, its most enjoyable. Instead of adding up every shot over 18 holes, you play against an opponent hole by hole. Win a hole and you…
