Popular Golf Tournament Formats

Northwest Arkansas Business Journal,  January, 2006  by Anonymous

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The Scramble is the most popular format for group tournaments because it encourages foursomes. Foursomes are constructed so as to compose an A player, a B player, a C player and a D player. In putting together the teams, the tournament organizer needs to know the golfing ability of the participants; it may be necessary to ask the golfers for their handicaps.

Certainly, an attendee who has never golfed would be categorized as a D. In a scramble, each team member tees off, but the team plays its second shots from where the best drive landed. Play continues in this fashion through putting. A ...

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