Stableford

Everybody's even.

Yeah, you play Stableford.

Yeah, you can play Tiger Woods and kick his ass.

I

The sun was out.

A gushing group of gazers tried to dab their hands at Stableford.

Kenny Wood, 35 points, wet his lips and winning well.

15 foul-feathered friends played chook run, a pump ready to spar on the sun-soaked course.

Valley View, an excellent field.

That's great to hear, with a large number of visitors for their Saturday.

Cooper Buckle, four-ball, best ball, Stableford.

It's a big event over there, been going on for quite a few years.

So every single point on the golf hole and throughout your round, you need to be considering minimizing risk.

So if it's a tee shot that you're not comfortable with and there's trouble around, and in your regular Stableford game or par game, You hit driver because, well, the pro is, you know, the positive is worth the risk of the negative in that, okay, if I make a double or whatever, I'll take the wipe.

You've got to be looking to reduce risk from the get-go.

So take iron off that tee or if you're in a spot of bother or you're You're in the trees and you've got a gap.

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the big, the big issue here is Stableford.

Uh, no, it happens in medal as well.

You, if you play in a m-

"I know there's been a kind of nationwide talk on having separated divisions within the comps, but this would only be possible if there's a massive increase in numbers." Yeah, that's fair.

"So the club is trialing the following.

Instead of paying out the top three Stableford scores, they have reduced that to first and second place.

And instead of third place, they have now introduced lowest gross-

Yeah.

Modified Stableford, interesting format.

I played that two weeks ago in Scotland, a club I'm a member of.

Our international club championship is Modified Stableford.

And I'm thinking, man, I don't play this very often.

To Paul's description, you aim at a few flags, you cut a few corners.

And you're kind of never out of it versus when you're playing metal play.

If you get off to a rough start, it's kind of a long day or a catch-up day.

It's not by accident that we're here this morning.

Modified Stableford, interesting format.

I played that two weeks ago in Scotland, a club I'm a member of.

Our international club championship is Modified Stableford.

And I'm thinking, man, I don't play this very often.

To Paul's description, you aim at a few flags, you cut a few corners.

And you're kind of never out of it versus when you're playing metal play.

If you get off to a rough start, it's kind of a long day or a catch-up day.

And let everyone know where we're going to be for the last round.

We'll have like a running Stableford total.

Yep.

And we go into the last round.

80 points after three rounds.

Sorry, I meant 120.

And then they watch us play 18 holes of Stableford.

Yeah.