Scramble
The charity-outing favorite: everyone hits, the team picks the best shot, and everyone plays from there. Maximum fun, minimum pressure — every player contributes and nobody's bad shot survives.
How it works
All team members tee off. The team picks the best ball of the bunch, everyone plays their next shot from that spot, and you repeat until the ball is holed. One score per team per hole. Weak drive? Doesn't matter, someone found the fairway. It's the format where a 25-handicapper's one great putt a round actually gets used.
Bogey Logger supports 2-person and 4-person scrambles, scored as total strokes or — with exactly two teams — as match play (holes won).
The weighted handicap
A scramble team is only as good as its best shots, so team handicaps use small, weighted percentages of each member's course handicap — the better players weighted heaviest, everything computed on the exact values and rounded once:
| Team size | Weights (low CH → high CH) |
|---|---|
| 2 players | 35% · 15% |
| 3 players | 30% · 20% · 10% |
| 4 players | 25% · 20% · 15% · 10% |
Exact CHs: 5.2 (low) and 12.4 (high)
Team handicap = 35% × 5.2 + 15% × 12.4
= 1.82 + 1.86 = 3.68 → 4
Those weights are the widely used USGA recommendation. Charity events often just play gross — that works too.
In Bogey Logger, scramble rounds can use "one score per team" entry — record the team ball directly. The weighted handicap adjusts automatically to your team's size.
Scramble vs. best ball — people mix these up
In a best ball, everyone plays their own ball all the way and the best finished score counts. In a scramble, the team shares one effective ball, choosing the best shot each time. Scramble scores run much lower — everyone putts from the same good spots.
Bring the whole crew
Bogey Logger handles scramble handicaps and team entry so the round stays social.
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