Finchley Golf Club
Junior’s Event Rules
ELIGIBILITY
- Teams of 2 of which at least one player is a current Junior member of FGC
- Team mate to be a family member (sibling, parent, grandparent etc) with own handicap - does not need to be member of Finchley
- If Juniors cannot find a qualifying family member then an adult member from the FGC Family will be allocated to them for competition purposes
- Entry fee: £3/£5 for members/non-members (£3 will be deducted from member account, non-members to bring £5 cash on the day)
FORMAT
- 2 person Texas Scramble
- Medal Scoring (i.e. one gross score per pair, per hole).
- Handicap allowance per pair is 35% of low handicap plus 15% of high handicap combined. Your playing handicaps will be on your scorecard, so no worries there.
- Women off the red tees; men off the white tees
- Men pairs and mixed pairs to mark their card as per the white tees
- Women pairs to mark their card as per the red tees
- Please note: Pairs MUST use a minimum of 6 tee shots from Junior player
ON THE DAY (before your round)
- Arrive 30 minutes before your tee time to register and warm up
- Collect your card from the Pro Shop (1 card per pair)
- Go to the first tee 10 mins before your tee time
- Exchange cards with your playing partners
ON THE DAY (after your round)
- As soon as you have completed your round, enter your pairs score in IG and on the scorecard, add up your gross score then subtract your playing handicap (which will be on the card) to determine your nett score
- Sign your card (marker and player signatures required)
- Hand your scorecards ASAP to the Junior Organiser who will validate scores
THE PLAYOFF
- Top 3 teams will play a sudden death one-hole playoff (on the 12th) until a winner is determined (please note that 1 shot will be given if the playing handicap difference between the pairs is 8 or more)
- The junior team member MUST tee off on the play off hole, normal scramble rules from 2nd shot onwards
PRIZES
- Top 3 pairs
TEXAS SCRAMBLE DEFINITION
Texas Scramble is a form of team competition in golf. In the purest, simplest form of Texas Scramble all members of the team tee off. Then one of these drives is chosen to be used for the next shot and all members of the team play their ball from this spot as follows:
- the chosen player’s shot hits from where the ball lies and the second player hits from within 6 inches of that position but no nearer the hole. Please note that the second player can place their ball if on the fairway or in a bunker, but must drop their ball if in the rough
From these second shots, one is chosen and all play a third shot from there – and so on until the ball is holed. Each team returns one score for each hole.
Note: when on the putting green, both players putt from exactly the same spot (unless the first player holes out, obviously)
In summary, a 2-person Scramble is a competition format that is exactly what it sounds like: a scramble in which the teams consist of two players each. After each golfer on a side plays a stroke, the teammates compare the results and select the best one. Both players then play the next stroke from that spot. This is repeated, including on the putting green, until the ball is holed. One team score is recorded.
The contact for this competition is Nigel Arbuthnot (07980 893 393)
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