2-Man Scramble Exhibition & Bar Night

This Friday we're heading to Soho Saloon around 8:30pm for drinks and to randomly draft teams. If you own an old "letter jacket" from high school, wear it out. The weather might actually be chilly enough to be comfortable in them (low 60s).

I'll be grabbing some food at Margarita's on Davis Islands (7pm) if anyone in the area wants to meet up and Uber over together.

Teams will be randomly drawn, with the first team playing with (not against) Team 2, and so on. Entry fee is $20 with the winners making $120 each, and the 2nd place team $40 each.

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We have a 9:50am tee time for 16 people at Scepter in Sun City Center. This is a private course in the retirement community of Kings Point that I'd never even heard of until last week. It's in great shape, a really nice design, and a fun layout. There is no driving range on the property.

The format is a handicapped scramble with a few modified rules:

- USGA recommended handicaps of 35% allowance of the better player (A) added to 15% allowance of the worse player (B). The lowest team handicap will reset to zero and everyone else will stroke off them.

- You must use at least six (6) tee shots of each player. Obviously, tee shots on par 3s count. Be sure to track the team you're playing with to make sure they adhere to this requirement.

- We're playing a "moving scramble" on the Blue-White-Green tees for the guys, and Green-Red-Yellow tees for Katie. On the first hole the guys start on white and Katie on red. Every time your team makes a NET birdie (or better) you move back one set of tees. Every time your team makes a NET bogey (or worse) you move up one set. You only ever move one set at a time. Katie will always be two sets in front of her partner. Guys don't move up past green, Katie doesn't move up past yellow or behind green. Since it's based on NET score, make sure your opponents are moving correctly.
         *Before anyone asks, if you're on the blue tees and make a double bogey, you still only move up one to the whites.*

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Below are the FULL, A and B handicaps. Remember, your team handicap uses the above stated allowance, so it depends on who you're paired with and who the "best" team is:

Buchert - 11 / 3.85 / 1.65
Chan - 12 / 4.2 / 1.8
MikeHo - 12 / 4.2 / 1.8
Robbie - 14 / 4.9 / 2.1
Faz - 15 / 5.25 / 2.25
Gary - 16 / 5.6 / 2.4
Greg - 16 / 5.6 / 2.4
Reid - 16 / 5.6 / 2.4
John - 17 / 5.95 / 2.55
Darren - 18 / 6.3 / 2.7
Tall Mike - 18 / 6.3 / 2.7
Casey - 18 / 6.3 / 2.7
Crum - 22 / 7.7 / 3.3
Geoff - 26 / 9.1 / 3.9
Katie - 26 / 9.1 / 3.9
Gorecki - 30 / 10.5 / 4.5

For an example, if Buchert and Chandler are paired together, their handicap would be (3.85 + 1.8) = 5.65 rounded to 6. Since by default they'd have the lowest handicap of the tournament, this is reset to zero. If Gary and Darren are also paired together, they'd have (5.6 + 2.7) = 8.3 rounded to 8. This number is played off the Buchert/Chandler 6 so would translate to 2 strokes. Looking at the math, the most any team could possibly have is 8 strokes, and that assumes Buchert is randomly paired with Chandler or MikeHo.

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We'll be using the GolfGameBook leader board, so make sure your app is up to date.  See you at the bar and let me know if you want to meet up for dinner before.

2-Man Scramble Mock Draft

December 3rd - Next Exhibition - 2 Man-Scramble             Location: TBD

December 1st - Teams to be drafted at the bar


Now if you're like me, you're really busy at work with plenty of actually important things to work on, but you figure you'd just much rather make inefficient use of your time to create your own mock draft for our next exhibition event.

The allure of creating a mock draft, while fully knowing there is no real point in doing so, given the draft is completely random and likely won't even be close to what I come up with, just proved too much for me.

So in the spirit of giving you all some high quality blog content during this outrageously long break between off-season exhibition events, I took Chandler's list of the 16 fine golfers participating in this event and generated random numbers between 0 and 1 in Excel (i.e., "0.23731", "0.062417") for each person.  I then sorted everyone by their ranomly generated number in ascending order (low to high) and deemed the person with the lowest number the 1st draft pick and the person with the highest number the last pick.  

Draft picks 1&2 face off against 3&4, 5&6 vs. 7&8, etc. That's at least the easiest way I could think of to make the parings truly random.

See the results below.  

I've included everyone's current handicap index so you can roughly figure how many strokes your team will be giving/getting, but after Chandler picks the course he'll surely provide a thorough breakdown of the actual handicapping for the event.

Also since Anthony bailed and I don't know Crum's handicap, Crum inherits Anthony's index for now.  Nice save Chandler.

2-Man Scramble Mock Draft Results

Winter Update

The off-season is long, slow, but needed. Hopefully you've been putting in some quality family time. It'll be the new season before you know it.

Remember to put our next exhibition event on your calendar: December 3rd. I'll hopefully have a course booked soon. As previously mentioned, we'll draft teams out at the bar on December 1st.

My plan was to update and formalize our by-laws, as well as create the Board of Directors this winter. There was also talk of the much anticipated "Anonymous Player Survey," which would definitely inject some life into the group. But all those plans have been tabled for now as I work on other club related projects.

We are all set to continue offering USGA licensed handicaps through 2018, but I've had zero luck discussing with them a connection to their centralized platform beyond that.

They basically want Type 2 clubs like ours to join a local association (FSGA or GAF are the two in our area). We'd pay them whatever yearly fee and receive handicaps through their services.

I've also had talks with a couple of developers, Barney Adams (founder of Adams Golf), and a few other entities about the viability of creating our own platform which would also function as a handicap provider. It's been an interesting idea to explore.

Anyway... short term nothing is changing. We have 3 new members for next season, so the competition should be tougher. Don't be afraid to post some outing requests in the meantime. Gorecki played a good round last week with the crickets.

Golf This Sunday (Nov 12th)

 I  Chandler already have has other plans  a 4some at Lexington Oaks at 9:22am with Gary, Darren and John.   on Sunday,

But Geoff  Gorecki wants to get some rounds in as well. Comment if you want to join Geoff, and if enough people are in I'll try to add a spot near ours. book a tee time. 

Golf This Sunday (Nov 5th)

I already have a 4some booked at Lexington Oaks at 9:22am with Gary, Darren and John.

But Geoff wants to get some rounds in as well. Comment if you want to join Geoff, and if enough people are in I'll try to add a spot near ours.