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 — three each for a four over 18 is the usual rule. Pick Texas scramble inside the Scramble tile; on each hole tap whose drive the team used and the app keeps the count, warning when someone is running out of holes. The scoring and the team handicap are the same, and the drive rule has a page of its own.