Each member of the team hits his or her shot from that spot. This process continues until the hole is played out. Each team returns one score for each hole and the team with the lowest score for the round wins.

The team handicap is the sum of individual team members’ handicaps: i) divided by ten for teams of four and ii) divided by six for teams of three. a) All players tee-off at each hole. b) There must be a minimum number of tee shots used per player during the Round: i) For teams of 4; four tee shots per player.

Handicaps are sometimes applied, but scramble tournaments are just as likely to use gross scores as net. Here’s how the basic scramble format works: Each golfer on the team hits a drive. The results of the drives are compared.

Calculating Handicaps in a 2-Person Scramble

1. First, both golfers on a team determine their course handicaps.
2. Then take 35-percent of Golfer A’s course handicap;
3. and add it to 15-percent of Golfer B’s course handicap.

The USGA recommends the A player gets 25% of their course handicap, all the way down to 10% of the course handicap of the D player. Add them together, and that’s the scramble team handicap.

The four-man scramble features teams of four players competing against one another. In this format, each team’s players hit from the teebox, then the team members choose the best of the four shots for the next shot. All team members then play the second shot from that location, and again choose the best shot.

How Long Does a Scramble Take? If you are playing in an outing where it is a 4 person scramble, you can expect to be on the course for about 5 hours. Often times, the course can be packed, everyone starts on a different hole and the course can play really slow.

It should take your foursome 3 hours and 47 minutes to play 18 holes.

As you add players to your group, you can expect the time to complete a round to grow by roughly thirty minutes for each additional player. Two players could play in three hours, three players could play in three hours and thirty minutes, and four players, on average, could take four hours to play 18 holes of golf.

Play a round of regulation 18-hole golf on most courses and you’ll walk anywhere between 3 and 6 miles, depending on the length of the course, how much walking you do before and after your game, and how often you have to wander off course in search of lost balls.

Also Known As: Success Percent (Scrambling) Scrambling Percent is a statistic that shows a players ability to make par (or better) even if a Green in Regulation (GIR) is missed. This stat is calculated by finding the percent of greenside shots (that are not GIR shots) that were followed by only one putt.

Scrambling is simply calculated by dividing successful scrambles (par or less) by total GIR missed. The average for PGA Tour players in 2012 was ~59%, indicating that, when missing the green, they made par a bit more than half the time. Scrambling is often used to evaluate whether a player has a good “short game”.

Texas Scramble is a form of team competition in golf. Then one of these drives is chosen to be used for the next shot and all members of the team place their balls where the chosen drive ended up, and all the team play a second shot from this spot. …

In a “Shamble,” each golfer tees off and the best shot is selected, but from that point, each golfer plays his or her own ball until it is holed out.

In a shamble, each player will tee off. The group will select the ball in the best position and all three players on the team will play their own ball in from the selected position. The team score will be the aggregate total of the 3 scores. Each team must use 3 drives per player.

A “shamble” is a type of golf tournament format in which a team of golfers selects the one best drive among them after teeing off, then all four play their own golf balls from that position into the hole.