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Team average

Partners each play their own ball, and the team's score on each hole is the average of the two.

How it works

  1. Play in teams of two, each partner with their own ball and their own handicap strokes.

  2. On every hole the team's score is the average of the partners' net scores, half strokes kept.

  3. The lowest team total wins. A picked-up hole means no team total for the round.

Good to know

  • Ties: split hole by hole from the hardest, net in a net game.

A worked round

Each team's score on every hole is the average of its partners' net scores, half strokes kept, everyone getting 95% of their handicap.

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

The momentLevel after 1. On 2, Kasper and Sam made 3 and 4, an average of 3.5, against 4.5 for Team B, and Team A won the round by 2.5.

1stTeam A: Kasper and Sam73.5 net1.5 over par
2ndTeam B: Jordan and Ike76 net4 over par
Hole123456789101112131415161718Total
Par44354345444354434572
Kasper
Sam
Team A4.53.5354.534.54.543.54.535.54434.5573.5
Jordan
Ike
Team B4.54.53.5543.5454.54.53.53.554.54.52.545.576
Hole123456789
Par443543454
Kasper
Sam
Team A4.53.5354.534.54.54
Jordan
Ike
Team B4.54.53.5543.5454.5
Hole101112131415161718Total
Par44354434572
Kasper
Sam
Team A3.54.535.54434.5573.5
Jordan
Ike
Team B4.53.53.554.54.52.545.576
HoleParKasperSamTeam AJordanIkeTeam B
144.54.5
243.54.5
3333.5
4555
544.54
6333.5
744.54
854.55
9444.5
1043.54.5
1144.53.5
12333.5
1355.55
14444.5
15444.5
16332.5
1744.54
18555.5
Total7273.576
KM
Kasper
SP
Sam
A
Team A
JB
Jordan
ID
Ike
B
Team B

Net scores, each player's handicap strokes already off. A circle marks a birdie and a square a bogey. The Team A and Team B rows are the average of the partners' scores, and the Total column adds them up.

Handicaps

Players get 95% of their handicap, each with their own strokes. The host can change the percentage when setting up.

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

Play Team average with your group.