Scramble
One ball: everyone hits, the team picks the best, everyone plays from there — one score a hole for the team, net of a team handicap.
- 2–4 players
- One ball
- One team
How it’s scored
- One number a hole, tapped by whoever is holding the phone. No individual cards.
- The team handicap is 25% of the lowest course handicap, 20% of the next, then 15% and 10%.
- It comes off the total at the end, to a tenth: 63 gross less 9.3 is 53.7 net.
- Read as strokes under par, gross and net, the way a scramble reads anywhere.
Worked · one team of four, holes 1–3 and the finished card
25% of 10 + 20% of 12 + 15% of 16 + 10% of 20 = 2.5 + 2.4 + 2.4 + 2.0 = 9.3
Handicaps
A team number, not shots on holes: with one ball there is nobody to give a shot to. 10, 12, 16 and 20 make 2.5 + 2.4 + 2.4 + 2.0 = 9.3.
100% teamHow handicaps are worked out
Good for
- Players
- One team of two to four
- Handicaps
- The widest — the high handicapper’s drive gets used
- When
- The first morning, or the hungover one
Set it up in score70
- Set Up the Day → Scramble
- Pick the team. The team handicap is worked out for you
Free. Only the organiser signs up; everyone else opens the link.
The fine print
Why is net only shown at the end?
A tenth of a shot cannot be dealt out hole by hole without inventing a rounding rule, so the team handicap comes off the finished total. A 14-hole net is a shorter round, not a score.
Does a scramble day count for the stableford?
No. Nobody has their own card, so nobody has stableford, birdies or skins from it: a scramble day lives on the Scramble board and your order-of-merit numbers are what they were the night before.
Texas scramble?
A Texas scramble adds a minimum number of drives from each player. The app takes only the score for now, so the drive count is the group’s rule to keep on the tee; the scoring and the team handicap are the same.