Can we have a double tournament?

[jump_putter]

and "switch" doubles is...???

[smitty]

Best Disc (Best Score)

In Best Disc (also known as Best Score), each player plays the hole as they would while playing singles; there are no shared lies. The team score is the best score on the hole by one of its players.


Tough Shot is the most brutal of the doubles formats, and can test the patience of even the best teams. In Tough Shot, both players throw from each lie (starting with the tee shot), then the competing teams in the group choose which of the subsequent lies will be used, with the aim of making the hole as difficult as possible. The hole is completed once either team members has holed out from the chosen lie.

In Alternate Shot, only one sequence of throws is made on each hole.
The team selects a player to throw the tee shot at the beginning of the round. The other player then throws from the subsequent lie, and play alternates in that fashion until the round is completed. Alternate Shot is closer to a singles format, where one partner can’t bail the other out. If you miss a short putt, chances are good that you’ll be driving the next hole.

Best Shot is by far the most popular doubles format. Both players throw from each lie (starting with the tee shot), then the team chooses which of the resulting lies to continue play from, until the hole is completed.


Switch Doubles would be like best disc, but partner A would play from B's drive and B would play from A's drive.

Double Birdie you would play best shot and if both partners think they have birdie putts you can both go for it and score a "Double Birdie" or a 1. An exception would be if the first person to putt would miss, the second player could come and putt from the first players lie.

[Schoen-hopper]

Smitty said it well, but to clarify "switch" doubles:

After the tee shot, the partners on a team play the hole out from the other team-mate's lie. The best score of the two is then taken for the hole.

It's a tough format if you have a really weak partner, but you can really score well if you work together well. A good team will know their partners strengths and weaknesses and plan the tee shot accordingly.

[scarpfish]

I always thought a fun, but perhaps too complicated for tournament idea would be to have a mixed format doubles round where each team would have checklist with 18 spots on it with various formats like say the following:

Best Shot (4 holes) ___ ___ ___ ___
Best Disc (3 holes) ___ ___ ___
Alternate Shot (3 holes) ___ ___ ___
Tough Shot (3 holes) ___ ___ ___
Best Shot w. Double Birdie option (2 holes) ___ ___
Switch (2 holes) ___ ___
"Quirk format" use your imagination here (1 hole) ___

After everyone drives, each team decides which format that they're going to play for that hole and checks it off their list. Obviously as the round goes on, their options become more restricted.

[Ruder]

I always thought a fun, but perhaps too complicated for tournament idea would be to have a mixed format doubles round where each team would have checklist with 18 spots on it with various formats like say the following:

Best Shot (4 holes) ___ ___ ___ ___
Best Disc (3 holes) ___ ___ ___
Alternate Shot (3 holes) ___ ___ ___
Tough Shot (3 holes) ___ ___ ___
Best Shot w. Double Birdie option (2 holes) ___ ___
Switch (2 holes) ___ ___
"Quirk format" use your imagination here (1 hole) ___

After everyone drives, each team decides which format that they're going to play for that hole and checks it off their list. Obviously as the round goes on, their options become more restricted.

Its a cool idea, but would pretty much negate tough shot.

[jump_putter]

I have been trying to do this for some time...I need to get with SmittyClaus and run some ideas by him...This could be awesome if we do it right.

[jump_putter]

Idea for a doubles...
Herman Hill Park or Newton
Mid Summer (for light purposes)
Set up a 12 or 13 hole "gold course" with OB-o-plenty, bunkers, mandos, the workx (smitty would need to help with this as he has experience
3 rounds of 12 or 13
1 round switch, 1 round alt. shot, 1 other round
2 divisions: Open, Intermediate
Open could be either "full open" (any 2 players can play together), or make it where 1 team must have a player rated under 950-960 and have the lower division be all players under x-rating..
Smallish entry fee- $75-80/ team??
Kick ass trophies

[Boomer9time]

I like the 666, it flows well. easy to remember and score.

1-6 Best shot (disc)
7-12 Best score - everybody plays out the hole and take the best score between partners.
13-18- Alternate shot.

IF you play at Newton had whatever for the last six hole

Mixed dubs as a division is works for me as well.