What is stapleford betterball?

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What is stapleford betterball?

Answer 1

Stableford BB (best ball) is when you are playing with a partner and you keep track of both your stableford scores, but in the BB column you put down the higher of the two scores. It is a format that allows two people to have a combined score that is potentially better than either of the individual ones.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

In matchplay, Stableford 'best-ball' mode of play is a partnership match of two golfers against another pair of golfers. The better stableford points score of each of the two pairs is entered for every hole (after considering each of the golfer's individual handicap against the hole's stroke index). At the end of 18 holes the 'best ball scores' are then added to determine the winning pair.

Answer 4

A Stableford competition is a golf tournament in which the object is to get the highest score. That's because in Stableford, golfers are awarded points based on their scores in relation to a fixed score at each hole. That fixed score can be par, or any number of strokes a tournament committee chooses (6, 8, whatever).

The USGA and R&A define Stableford points in this manner:

• More than 1 over fixed score (or no score returned) - 0 points

• One over fixed score - 1 point

• Fixed score - 2 points

• One under fixed score - 3 points

• Two under fixed score - 4 points

• Three under fixed score - 5 points

• Four under fixed score - 6 points

Rules related to Stableford competitions can be found in the official rules under Rule 32.

Stableford competitions are usually played with full handicaps, but might be played at scratch with handicaps used to determine higher point rewards for higher handicappers. For example, golfers might be flighted as A, B, C and D players, with points adjusted so that a par gets an A player 0 points, a B player 1 point, a C player 2 points and a D player 3 points.