Match play games

Six-point Scotch

Two teams of two play for six points a hole, for the best ball, the team total, a birdie and closest to the pin.

How it works

Exactly four players, two teams of two, each playing their own ball.
Every hole has six points: 2 for low ball, the team with the lowest single net score, 2 for low total, the team with the lower sum of its two net scores, 1 for birdie, a team with a natural (gross) birdie or better, and 1 for closest, the team whose player was closest to the hole after the approach shots to the green.
A tied category splits its points evenly, and if both teams have a natural birdie they split the birdie point. If neither team has a score in a category, nobody gets its points. A team that wins all four categories outright doubles the hole to 12. Most points wins, and equal points are halved.

Good to know

Any player in the group enters who was closest, and with no entry nobody takes the point.
The host can turn the closest point off: then it's five points a hole, and winning the other three doubles the hole to 10.
If the host turns on presses, a team that falls behind starts a new match that runs to the end of the round: called by that team, or on its own at the number of points down the host sets. A press scores the points from its own holes, and one that ends level scores nothing.

A worked round

Two teams of two, six points a hole, net for low ball and low total and gross for birdie, with the closest point on. The lowest handicap plays off zero, and the others get 90% of the difference between their handicap and the lowest.

Team A: Kasper M. and Jordan B.Team B: Sam P. and Ike D.

The momentOn 12, Kasper's 2 was a natural birdie and the lowest ball, Team A had the low total, 6 to 7, and Kasper was closest, so Team A won all four and the hole doubled to 12. Team A won 62.5 to 38.5.

1stTeam A62.5 points12 holes won

2ndTeam B38.5 points6 holes won

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Points
Par	4	4	3	5	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	5	4	4	3	4	5
Kasper
Jordan
Sam
Ike
Low ball	Team A	Team A	split	Team A	split	Team B	split	split	Team A	Team A	Team B	Team A	Team A	Team A	Team B	split	split	split
Low total	Team A	split	split	split	split	split	split	split	Team A	Team A	Team B	Team A	split	Team A	split	split	split	split
Birdie	nobody	Team A	nobody	nobody	nobody	Team B	nobody	nobody	nobody	nobody	nobody	Team A	nobody	nobody	Team B	nobody	nobody	split
Closest	Team B	Team B	Team A	Team A	Team B	Team B	Team A	Team A	Team B	Team A	Team B	Team A	Team A	Team A	Team B	Team B	Team B	Team A
Team A	4	4	3	4	2	1	3	3	4	5	0	12	4	5	1	2	2	3.5	62.5
Team B	1	2	2	1	3	5	2	2	1	0	5	0	1	0	5	3	3	2.5	38.5

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Par	4	4	3	5	4	3	4	5	4
Kasper
Jordan
Sam
Ike
Low ball	Team A	Team A	split	Team A	split	Team B	split	split	Team A
Low total	Team A	split	split	split	split	split	split	split	Team A
Birdie	nobody	Team A	nobody	nobody	nobody	Team B	nobody	nobody	nobody
Closest	Team B	Team B	Team A	Team A	Team B	Team B	Team A	Team A	Team B
Team A	4	4	3	4	2	1	3	3	4
Team B	1	2	2	1	3	5	2	2	1

Hole	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Points
Par	4	4	3	5	4	4	3	4	5
Kasper
Jordan
Sam
Ike
Low ball	Team A	Team B	Team A	Team A	Team A	Team B	split	split	split
Low total	Team A	Team B	Team A	split	Team A	split	split	split	split
Birdie	nobody	nobody	Team A	nobody	nobody	Team B	nobody	nobody	split
Closest	Team A	Team B	Team A	Team A	Team A	Team B	Team B	Team B	Team A
Team A	5	0	12	4	5	1	2	2	3.5	62.5
Team B	0	5	0	1	0	5	3	3	2.5	38.5

Hole	Par	Low ball	Low total	Birdie	Closest	Team A	Team B
1	4	Team A	Team A	nobody	Team B	4	1
2	4	Team A	split	Team A	Team B	4	2
3	3	split	split	nobody	Team A	3	2
4	5	Team A	split	nobody	Team A	4	1
5	4	split	split	nobody	Team B	2	3
6	3	Team B	split	Team B	Team B	1	5
7	4	split	split	nobody	Team A	3	2
8	5	split	split	nobody	Team A	3	2
9	4	Team A	Team A	nobody	Team B	4	1
10	4	Team A	Team A	nobody	Team A	5	0
11	4	Team B	Team B	nobody	Team B	0	5
12	3	Team A	Team A	Team A	Team A	12	0
13	5	Team A	split	nobody	Team A	4	1
14	4	Team A	Team A	nobody	Team A	5	0
15	4	Team B	split	Team B	Team B	1	5
16	3	split	split	nobody	Team B	2	3
17	4	split	split	nobody	Team B	2	3
18	5	split	split	split	Team A	3.5	2.5
Points
Points						62.5	38.5

KM: Kasper
JB: Jordan
SP: Sam
ID: Ike
LB: Low ball
LT: Low total
Bd: Birdie
CP: Closest
A: Team A
B: Team B

Net scores, each player's handicap strokes already off. A circle marks a birdie and a square a bogey. The Low ball, Low total, Birdie and Closest rows name the team that took each one: = is split, and a dash is nobody. Birdie goes by the gross score. The Team A and Team B rows are each team's points on the hole, and the Points column adds them up.

Handicaps

Strokes are 90% of the difference from the lowest handicap, and the host can change the percentage or set gross when setting up. Scores are net for low ball and low total and gross for birdie.

Why that number? Each format has its own usual handicap allowance, set so a 20 and a 5 both have a fair shot.

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