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Fri, Jul 10 2015 2:38 PM (3 replies)
  • jiggsie
    478 Posts
    Fri, Jul 10 2015 9:23 AM

    Is there a posting anywhere that list different ideas ans suggestions for interesting CC tournaments

  • WillyBigg
    2,135 Posts
    Fri, Jul 10 2015 11:08 AM

    +1^^^   I've searched the forums, unless I missed it, I found very little info. Mixing up the tee lengths has been a huge help but surely there are some unique ideas to be shared.

    Thanks to anyone contributing

  • JimbeauC
    5,835 Posts
    Fri, Jul 10 2015 1:46 PM

    jiggsie:
    posting anywhere that list different ideas and suggestions for interesting CC tournaments

    This may end up being it. :^)

    Farthest From the Hole. 

    If you have a spreadsheet guru. Pretty much anything handicapped. We do one that pits every entered member against each other for a championship. You just put up a 9 every week that everyone plays, but each player's score is compared to only one other player with the handicap applied. The hc really evens it out. 

    I sponsor an uneven lies tourney every week. I use a handicap system based on the USGA. The hardest part was coming up with slope/rating for all the main courses. (We don't do Bo? or the cartoon courses.) Only a dozen or so members take part so managing a handicap spreadsheet for each isn't that time consuming.

    We do a Survivorlike thing every year. The weekly challenges are sometimes a bit out there. Closest to a particular score - Longest total made putt distance - Must miss all fairways (penalty strokes added for FWs hit) - Offering up one participant from each team and loser is out. (Do you put up your best player at risk or sacrifice someone?) Winning team gets to vote a player off from the losing team. The sky's pretty much the limit. 

    We're in the middle of an "Eclectic" competition. Pick a course, and run 6 weekly 18s. Everyone's final score is made up of the best that they have done. This one requires posting scorecards, and it's helpful to have a spreadsheet to track it all. 

    Yes. On some of these, cheating could happen. 

  • 777999
    2,111 Posts
    Fri, Jul 10 2015 2:38 PM

    Here is one I run ever couple of months in the club I'm in.  I call if "Ok, Who Swiped my Clubs."  In this format, players are only allowed to use the following clubs: 3, 5, 7 ,9 + putter.  No driver, 3 wood, hybrid or lofted wedge is permitted.  I usually select short, or medium tee boxes to make par possible.  Makes for some interesting and creative shot making, and is definitely a test of skill.

    Another one I like to inflict on my victims is called "Only for the brave, or very very foolish"  In this tourney all players must revert to the most basic of wgt clubs and that insipid, white free ball that never runs out.  Green Speeds are always set at Championship and the tee boxes as hardest, with high winds  This definitely will  result in a lot of shattered self images and buckets full of tears!!!  lmao

    Phil  aka., Coyote 

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