From: thompson@titan.trl.OZ.AU (David Thompson)
Subject: League Golf - Speed up play
Summary: Par and Stableford format
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:10:40 GMT

Hi all
I was asked to put this info on this newsgroup to maybe give some
alternatives to stroke play and help speed up play without forgoing some
of the 'rules of golf'. In Oz and Britain there are two additional
variations of stroke play to help speed up play and give some variation
to the monotony of 'Stroke' golf. Used quite extensively in winter,
short daylite hours and 250 in the competition field to get thru.
Hope this gives some pleasure to you ...... the following cosists of the
conditions of play for :-
Both competitions use the Index rating for the holes (I am assuming the
cards have an index for each hole indicating the difficulty) So that a
player of 10 handicap only gets a shot on the first 10 difficult holes
(1 to 10)... a player off 18 gets a shot per hole and a player off 25
gets a shot per hole and 2 shots on the first 7 difficult holes. 
So now we get to ....
PAR (Named thus as the player is playing against the par of the hole
) A player who has a 4 on a par 4 with a shot on the hole deducts the
shot and therefore has an equivalent birdie and consequently wins the
hole (+)
If the player has a 5 on a par 4 with a shot it brings his/her effective
score on the hole to a 4 therfore halving the hole (0)
Any greater score that this such as a 6 on a par 4 with a shot allowed =
nett 5, so it is still a loss. 
This means that once a player exceeds the number of shots on a hole to
which he/she can either halve or win the hole they can pick up the ball
and continue to walk the rest of the hole ( a loss is a loss is a loss)
The scoring on the card is as indicated :-
Players gross score for the hole      5 (+) or 6(-) or 4(0) or - (-)
the latter being player has picked up and consequently lost the hole.


STABLEFORD (named after the inventor) a little more fun as players can
score a point for an effective bogey.


Points are allocated for the efective score on each hole, as follows:-
All are nett after strokes allocated on each hole are deducted....
Albatross = 5 points (eg a player has a 3 on a par 5 with a shot allowed
scor is an effective albatross - score nett 2 (5 points))
Eagle = 4 points (eg a player has a 3 (birdie ) on a par 4 and also gets
a shot nett score is a 2 ( 4 points))
Birdie = 3 points (a player has a birdie on a par 4 and no shot is
allocated, nett score is still 3 (3 points)
Par = 2 points ( a player has a 5 on a par 4 and a shot is allocated,
the nett score on the hole is a 4 ( 2 points)
Bogey = 1 point ( a player has a 6 on a par 4 (double bogey) and has a
shot allocated , score is a nett 5 ( 1 point) 

If a player can not score the minimum of 1 point on the hole he/she can
pick up the ball ( 0 points is 0 points .. no matter how many storkes u
have)

Ideally if a player is playing to his/her handicap they will score 36
points over 18 holes, similarly in PAR they would come in square (0)

Sorry forgot to say ... in PAR you add up all the plusses(+) and all the
minusses(-) and you deduct them and come up with the result eg ( -3) or
+1) or (0)square.


Hope this is not too confusing! Any questions?

Dave T.
Melbourne Oz