Yellow ball
Four play their own stableford as one team, and one yellow ball goes round the group a hole at a time — whoever is holding it has their points counted twice.
- 2–4 players
- Own ball
- One team
How it’s scored
- Everyone’s points count on every hole, once.
- The holder of the yellow ball on that hole has theirs counted twice.
- The ball passes to the next player each hole in a fixed order.
- Lose the ball and the doubles stop for the rest of the round — everybody once from then on.
Worked · the same four cards as the 1-2-3, holes 1–3
Who plays off what · full handicap
Handicaps
Full course handicap. A card already cut by an allowance would be cut twice on the hole it is doubled.
Good for
- Players
- One team of two to four
- Handicaps
- Any
- When
- A team day; the water on the third makes it
Set it up in score70
- Set Up the Day → Yellow ball
- Pick the team. Whose hole it is, the app keeps
Free. Only the organiser signs up; everyone else opens the link.
The fine print
What happens when the ball is lost?
Anyone in the group taps Lost the yellow ball on this hole on the round and every phone stops doubling from that hole on. The third here scores seven, everybody once, where it would have been nine, and a mis-tap has an undo.
Who has the ball on which hole?
The app keeps the order, so nobody has to remember whose hole it is, and it never moves when someone is renamed. The tile shows who would have had it, greyed, after the ball has gone.
Does it still score the individual and a team day?
Yes. Your card is an ordinary stableford card, so it goes on the stableford and birdie boards and scores a team day exactly as it would on any other day.