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Shamble

Team format: all players tee off, best drive is selected, then each player plays their own ball from there. Best 1 or 2 scores count.

Type
Team games
Players
4+ players
Holes
18, front 9 or back 9

How it’s played

Half scramble, half best ball. Everyone tees off, the team picks the best drive, and then each player plays their OWN ball from there into the hole. The best score (or best N) among the teammates counts as the team score on each hole; lowest team total wins. You get the scramble's launching pad off the tee with best ball's individual play the rest of the way.

Net by default with an 85% suggested allowance. Like scramble, optional drive tracking records whose tee shot was used and flags players under the minimum without blocking play.

Ties. Level for a paid place, the Commish's tie-break decides it. Split (the default) pools the tied places and shares them evenly. Push voids the tied places: nobody collects them, and their shares go back to everyone who put in — a tie across two paid places voids both. USGA card match compares the tied scores over the last 9, then the last 6, 3 and 1 holes. App coin toss (Low Net and the team formats) is flipped in the app by the Commish, the scorekeeper or a group admin, and records who won, so the result is the same on every screen and when payouts are finished; until it is flipped the place splits.

Settings you can change

  • Best scores to countDefault: 1
  • Use handicap strokesDefault: On
  • Handicap allowanceDefault: 85%

    USGA recommended for this format — the % of course handicap each player gets

    Shown when “Use handicap strokes” is on.

  • Track drives usedDefault: Off

    Track whose drive is used on each hole and flag players under the minimum

  • Minimum drives per playerDefault: 0

    Shown when “Track drives used” is on.

Every game also has its money settings, set on the same screen when the game is added.