TEAMS · ONE BALL

Scramble

Teams play one ball: everyone hits, the best shot gets played, and one score a hole goes on the card. GoLo works out each team’s handicap and settles your games team against team.

2–12 players2–6 teamsTeam handicapOne ball a team

HOW IT WORKS

Everyone hits. One ball goes on.

A scramble turns a group into teams that play one ball. Everyone hits, the team picks the best shot, and everyone plays the next one from there until it’s holed. One score per team goes on the card, so a 25-handicap and a 5 can play together and both count. The part groups argue about is the team handicap, so GoLo works it out the same way every time.

  1. Split into teams

    Two to six teams of one to four players, up to twelve in all. GoLo deals the group out evenly and you move players around before the first tee. In GoLo, any group of more than four plays as a scramble.

  2. Everyone hits, the best ball plays

    All of you tee off, the team picks the best drive, and everyone plays their next shot from that spot. Repeat until the ball is in the hole.

  3. Set the team handicaps

    Net is the default: GoLo works out a handicap for each team from its players’ Course Handicaps, using the percentages below. Gross plays it scratch. Manual lets the organizer set each team’s number.

  4. Put games on it

    Skins, Nassau, Best Score and the Overall Match play team against team. Wolf and Bingo Bango Bongo aren’t played in a scramble.

  5. One scorer per team

    Each team’s scorer enters one score a hole. GoLo nets it by the team’s strokes, settles every game, and splits each team’s result evenly between its players.

TEAM HANDICAPS

Four team sizes, four sets of percentages.

GoLo takes each player’s Course Handicap before rounding, lowest first, multiplies it by the percentage for its place, adds them up and rounds once, half up. A team never goes below 0, so it never gives strokes back.

1One-player teamNo scramble advantage, so the full Course Handicap100%
2Two playersThe WHS recommendation, lower handicap first35 / 15%
3Three playersWHS has no three-player figure; this is the usual club split30 / 20 / 10%
4Four playersThe WHS recommendation, lowest handicap first25 / 20 / 15 / 10%

WATCH IT PLAY OUT

A $20 Nassau between two scramble teams.

You and Mike, Course Handicaps 8 and 14, against Tom and Dave, 2 and 18, playing Net. Your team handicap is 35% of 8 plus 15% of 14: 4.9, which plays as 5. Theirs is 0.7 plus 2.7: 3.4, which plays as 3. Each team’s result is split between its two players.

  1. F9Front nine2 up through 9; the team’s $20, split two ways+$10
  2. B9Back nineTom and Dave took it 1 up−$10
  3. 18Overall match1 up, held with a half on 18+$10
Youhalf of the team’s +$20+$10
Mikehalf of the team’s +$20+$10
Tomhalf of the team’s −$20−$10
Davehalf of the team’s −$20−$10
NET · YOU’RE OWED
Your half of the team’s +$20
+$10

HOUSE FORMATS

Same idea, different rules about whose ball you play.

GoLo runs the plain scramble. These are the versions groups and events add on top, and what GoLo does with each.

  • Texas scramble

    Each player’s drive has to be used a set number of times, often four each over 18. GoLo doesn’t track whose drive was used, so keep that count on paper.

  • Shamble

    Everyone plays from the best drive, then plays their own ball into the hole. GoLo has no shamble setting.

  • Uneven teams

    A 1+3 or 2+3 split plays, but each team uses the percentages for its own size, so it isn’t fully evened out. GoLo says so on the setup screen.

  • Your own team numbers

    Events often use their own formula, such as a share of the team’s combined handicaps. Pick Manual and set each team’s handicap yourself, 0 to 99.

PLAY SMART

A scramble is won on the order you hit in.

Four players and one ball only help if the first shot makes the next three easier.

  • Safe ball first

    Get one ball in the fairway or on the green before anyone gets clever. Everyone after can swing at the flag.

  • Don’t take the long drive by reflex

    Ten yards closer from the rough is worse than the fairway. Pick the ball with the easiest next shot.

  • Lag first, charge after

    The first putt should reach the hole. Once the team has the read and a tap-in to fall back on, the rest can go at it.

TALK THE TALK

The terms on a scramble card.

Scramble
A team format: everyone hits, the team picks the best shot, and all play the next one from there.
Team handicap
The strokes a scramble team gets, worked out from its players’ Course Handicaps at a set percentage each.
Course handicap
Your index adjusted for the tees you played.
Stroke index
The card’s ranking of holes from hardest (1) to easiest. Strokes go on the hardest first.
Texas scramble
A scramble that requires each player’s drive to be used a minimum number of times.
Shamble
Best drive, then everyone plays their own ball into the hole.

SCRAMBLE, ANSWERED

Before you split the teams.

Each player’s Course Handicap, lowest first, times a percentage: 35% and 15% for two players, 30, 20 and 10% for three, 25, 20, 15 and 10% for four. Add the shares and round once, half up. A team of 5, 10, 15 and 20 comes to 7.5, which plays as 8.

Up to twelve, in two to six teams of one to four. A group of more than four plays as a scramble; the other formats hold four.

Yes. Each team uses the percentages for its own size, so a 1+3 split plays but isn’t fully evened out, and GoLo says so when you set it up.

Skins, Nassau, Best Score and the Overall Match, all team against team. With three or more teams, every pair of teams plays its own Nassau. Wolf and Bingo Bango Bongo aren’t played in a scramble.

A team’s result is split evenly between its players. Win a $20 Nassau match as a two-player team and you each take $10. In Best Score everyone puts in the same amount, and whatever a team wins is split between its players.

Yes. Pick Gross and every team plays scratch, or pick Manual and set each team’s number yourself, 0 to 99.

One scorer per team. Anyone else in the round who is signed in can follow it live on their own phone.

PUT IT ON THE TEAMS

The games GoLo runs between scramble teams.

Skins, Nassau and Best Score all play team against team, and each team’s result is split between its players.

Twelve players, one score a team.

Deal the teams, let GoLo work out the team handicaps, and settle every game when the last putt drops.

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