SUUNTO Golf - Manual (Page 23)

GOLF GUIDE
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Stableford scoring system is a stroke play format in which the player with highest
total points wins. In Stableford final score is not determined by strokes taken but
with points earned for your scores on each individual hole.
Stableford is a form of stroke play and, with only few exceptions, the rules for
stroke play apply. Stableford system is much more popular in amateur club tour-
naments in Europe than in the US. But even in professional golf, on both PGA
Tour and the European Tour, a modified stableford tournament is played.
STABLEFORD
When amateur golfers play Stableford competition, a handicap system is usu-
ally used to count up the points. The most often used way to calculate Stableford
points is that a scratch golfer gets one point from bogey, two points from par
and three from birdie and so on. If the score is double bogey or worse he receives
zero points.
A golfer with 18 handicap will score one point from every double bogey he
makes, two points from bogey and three from par. Stableford scoring is easier to
understand if you think that you get two points from your net par. For example
playing with handicap of 36 gives you two points from every double bogey (net
par) you score. This scoring format is also good for the pace of the play. If you can
not get any points you simply pick up the ball on that hole.
STABLEFORD SCORING