2010 $5 Fun Game Schedule

Saturday, May 29^th - Strike 3 - Individual

Definition:  Strike Three is a tournament format in which the three highest net holes are subtracted from the total.

Scorecards will need to be stroked, using full handicaps, before play begins.  Groups tee off and complete their rounds, playing stroke play and scoring in the normal fashion.  At the completion of play, add up your net score, minus the three highest holes, and low net score wins.

Sunday, May 30^th  – Eliminator (In the Bucket) – 4-Person Blind Partners

Definition:  Eliminator is a tournament format for 4-person teams.  In Eliminator, members will be ranked in four flights, (A, B, C, and D).  The Pro will blind draw four person teams, with one player from A flight, one from B flight, one from C flight and one from D flight.

Eliminator, also known as In the Bucket, is a best-ball format with a twist.  As a member’s score is used for the team score, that member is "eliminated" from counting as the team score on ensuing holes, until only one player is left whose score is eligible to be used (then the process starts over).

Here's an example: Players A, B, C and D tee off on Hole 1.  Player A is the low-ball on the first hole.  All players move on to Hole 2, but Player A's score can't be used.  Players B, C and D are the only players eligible.  On the second hole, Player B is the low-ball.  All players move on to Hole 3, but the scores of A and B are now ineligible.  Only Players C and D have a chance to provide the team score.

On Hole 3, Player C is the low score.  That leaves Player D as the lone survivor, so his or her score must be used on the Hole 4.  On Hole 5, the rotation starts over, with all four team members eligible to have their score counted.

Sunday, June 6^th – Medium 6 Holes - Individual

Definition:  The middle six handicap holes will be utilized to determine a member’s score.

1/3 of the member’s handicap will be subtracted from the six hole total to arrive at a net score.

Groups tee off and complete their rounds, playing stroke play and scoring in the normal fashion.

Example:  On the six middle difficulty holes, Member A takes 36 strokes.  Member A’s 18-hole handicap is 25.  1/3 of his handicap is 8.3.  36 minus 8.3 is 27.7, which is Member A’s net score for the competition.

Saturday, June 19^th and Sunday, June 20^th – Callaway System – Individual

Definition:  The Callaway System (or Callaway Scoring System) is a one-day handicapping system.

The Callaway System has a degree of luck involved in that it allows a "handicap allowance" to be determined and then applied to each member's score.

When the Callaway System is in use, all competitors tee off and play stroke play, scoring in the normal fashion with one exception - 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 tallied.

Based on each member's gross score (using the double par maximum), each member tallies up a prescribed number of worst scores from their scorecard, and then applies a second adjustment that may add or subtract additional strokes.

Utilizing the Callaway System requires consulting a chart to determine a handicap deduction and handicap adjustment.  The chart can be viewed below:

Saturday, June 26^th and Sunday, June 27^th - Peoria System - Individual

Definition:  The Peoria System is a 1-day handicapping system.

The Peoria System allows a "handicap allowance" to be determined and then applied to each player's score.

The Pro secretly selects six holes, usually two par 3s, two par 4s and two par 5s, and one of each type per nine (one par 3 on the front, the other on the back nine).  Competitors will not know which holes have been selected.

Groups tee off and complete their rounds, playing stroke play and scoring in the normal fashion with one exception: double par is the maximum (i.e., 8 is the maximum score on a par-4).

Following completion of play, the Pro will announce the six Peoria holes.

The Pro will total each member’s six secret holes.  That total is multiplied by 3, par is then subtracted from that total.  Then the resulting number is multiplied by 80 percent.  This is the member’s allowance.  The allowance is subtracted from the member’s gross score and the result is the net Peoria System score.

Example:  On the six holes, Member A uses 30 strokes. 30 x 3 = 90.  90 minus par-71 is 19. Eighty percent of 18 is 15.2.  15.2 is the allowance.  Member A's gross score is 90; 90 minus 15.2 results in a Peoria System net score of 74.8.

Peoria is sometimes called Bankers System.

Sunday, July 4^th – Flag Competition – Individual

Definition:  Flags is a competition format in which members begin the round with an allotment of strokes, and then play the course until their strokes run out.

The game gets its name from the fact that little flags are usually given to members to stick in the ground at the point at which their final shot is played.

The member who stakes his flag the farthest around the course is the winner.  Example: Your allotment is 75 strokes.  You play the course until you hit your 75^th shot, which, let's say, comes on the 16^th fairway.  That's where you plant your flag.  If no other member’s flag is planted beyond yours - say, on the 16^th green or 17^th tee box - you are the winner.

Flags will use 80% of a member’s handicap, to minimize the number of players that may need to make the turn back to Hole #1 after the completion of their round.  A player with a handicap of 20 will receive 16 addition shots over the course par of 71 (men).  This gives him a stroke allotment of 85, so wherever his 85 shot lands, that is where his flag is placed.

If players are tied - a number of players make it to the 17^th green or 18^th fairway, for example - closest to the hole wins.

Saturday, July 24^th – Las Vegas – 2-Person Blind Partners

Definition:  Las Vegas is a game comprised of two player teams.  All members will be ranked and the two player teams will be blindly drawn after all competitors have teed off.  Because of the ranking, there will be no use of handicaps.

In Las Vegas, each 2-person team plays for a team score on each hole.  But it's not a normal team score.  The team members' scores are not combined; rather, they are paired.  For example, Member A gets a 4 and Member B gets a 5.  The team score is not 9, it's 45 (the lower number goes first).

If both players get 4s, that's 44; if one gets an 8 and the other gets a 3, that's 38.

One safeguard: If one player scores more than a 9 or takes an X on a hole, the maximum score is a 9.

Groups tee off and complete their rounds, playing stroke play and scoring in the normal fashion.

The Pro has the discretion of selecting a random number of holes to complete the scoring, as using all 18 individual holes can result in math that totals over 1,000.

Sunday, July 25^th - Blind Nine - Individual

Definition:  Blind Nine, sometimes called Blind Hole, is a competition in which only 9 of the 18 holes count in the Member’s final score.  The catch is that the Members do not know which 9 holes count until after the round is completed.

The Pro will wait until all players have teed off before randomly selecting the 9 holes whose scores will be used.

Blind Nine is usually played with half of the member’s full handicaps (i.e. If the member’s handicap is 24, then 12 is subtracted from the random 9 hole total to obtain the net score for the competition.).

Groups tee off and complete their rounds, playing stroke play and scoring in the normal fashion.

Sunday, August 8^th – Two-Person Best Ball – 2-Person Blind Partners

Definition:  2-Person Best Ball is a best-ball competition format in which the teams consist of two players.  The Pro will blindly draw these two person teams once all competitors have teed off. 

Groups tee off and complete their rounds, playing stroke play and scoring in the normal fashion.  All members will receive their full handicaps.  Each member plays their own ball until completing the hole, then the lower net of the two scores is recorded as the team score for that hole.

Saturday, August 21^st – Irish Four Ball – 4-Person Blind Partners

Definition:  The term and the tournament format "Irish Four Ball" is very popular in Australia (Don’t ask me why).  In Irish Four Ball, players will be ranked in four flights, (A, B, C, and D).  The Pro will blind draw four person teams, with one player from A flight, one from B flight, one from C flight and one from D flight.

Members will tee off in their normal groups and complete their rounds, playing stroke play and scoring in the normal fashion.  The scores of a predetermined number of team members per hole are combined for one team score.  For example, if the low two scores are being counted on a given hole, and those scores are 4 and 5, then the team score on that hole is 9.  Because of the ranking of members beforehand, there will be no use of handicaps.

A popular variation for the number of scores per hole to vary throughout the round is:

Holes 1-5: One low ball
Holes 6-10: Two low balls
Holes 11-15: Three low balls
Holes 16-18: All four scores

Saturday, August 28th – Hard 6 Holes - Individual

Definition:  The hardest six handicap holes will be utilized to determine a member’s score.

1/3 of the member’s handicap will be subtracted from the six hole total to arrive at a net score.

Groups tee off and complete their rounds, playing stroke play and scoring in the normal fashion.

Example:  On the six hardest holes, Member A takes 36 strokes.  Member A’s 18-hole handicap is 25.  1/3 of his handicap is 8.3.  36 minus 8.3 is 27.7, which is Member A’s net score for the competition.

Sunday, August 29^th – Whack and Hack – 4-Person Blind Partners

Definition:  Whack and Hack is a tournament format for 4-person teams.  In Whack and Hack, members will be ranked in four flights, (A, B, C, and D).  The Pro will blind draw four person teams, with one player from A flight, one from B flight, one from C flight and one from D flight.

In Whack and Hack, the four team members will each play in their regular groups and each play their own ball for four individual scores.  Two of those scores are combined to make up the team score on each hole.  The two scores that are used are the low ball and the high ball.  So, if the four players score 4, 5, 6 and 7, respectively, the team score is 11 (4 + 7).  The maximum individual score or an X is 9.