Join us for our annual Charity golf day at Uttoxeter Golf Club

• Shotgun Start
• Texas scramble
• Nearest the pin
• Longest straightest drive
• Breakfast bap
• Hot & Cold Buffet
• Auction
• Raffle

Format: Texas Scramble, Shotgun start

A Texas scramble involves teams of four golfers, who we'll call Player A, Player B, Player C and Player D. (Note that Texas scrambles can also have 2- or 3-person teams.)

Each member of a Texas scramble team plays his or her own golf ball throughout. But with each stroke played, the four team members compare results and select the one best shot. The other team members move their balls to that location, and the next stroke is played from there.

For example, all four golfers hit tee balls. Which of those shots is in the best position? Maybe Player C's ball is sitting pretty in the middle of the fairway, and long. So, the team selects that as its drive. Players A, B, and D pick up their balls and move them to the location of Player C's shot. Each team member then plays their second strokes from that location.

This process continues until the ball is holed. And the process is the same in a Texas Scramble.

However, during the 18-hole round, the team must select at least three of Player A's drives as the team's drive, it must use at least three of Player B's drives as the team drive, and so on with Player C and Player D.

A Texas Scramble eliminates that possibility and allows even the weakest driver on the team to get into the action.

Of course, the driving requirement also puts the onus on each team member to come up with at least three decent drives for the team to use! The good news is that the team does not have to decide which player's drive it is using on a given hole until after each drive has been played.

Maybe on the first hole, all four team members tee off and Player D—who is the weakest driver of the team—hits a decent drive. Not great, not the best of the team, but decent. Usable. Should the team use that drive? Well, you're going to have to use three of Player D's drives at some point during the round. This decent drive on the first hole might be a good place to use one of them.

Those are the types of unique decisions that the Texas Scramble adds to the equation.

Team handicaps will also be taken into account. The team handicap is the sum of individual team members' handicaps:

i)                 divided by ten for teams of four and

ii)                divided by six for teams of three.

a) All players tee-off at each hole.

b) There must be a minimum number of three tee shots used per player during the round