A lot of tournament and medal golf is played in threes but it doesn’t generally make for the best game when you are having a social game. But there are some great ways to enjoy the game as a threeball and we’ve highlighted some of our favourites here.
Strokeplay
The simplest of all. You all play and whoever scores the lowest net score for the round wins. OK, it’s a bit dull and has the disadvantages of strokeplay or medal golf – no picking up, one bad hole can ruin your round and so on.
Stableford
Again this is a lot of threeballs’ go-to format given everyone just keeps their scores and the winner is worked out at the end. While it’s straightforward and you can blob a few holes and still be competitive, there are more fun ways to enjoy the game as a three.
Wentworth
This is match play competition with a team of one player taking on a team of the other two. To make it fair, the singleton team changes ever six holes. The team with two in it, their betterball counts as their score. A point is given to each golfer on the winning side on a hole, and whoever has the most points after 18 holes is the winner.
Barracuda/Split 6s
Another matchplay version, but in this one everyone plays on their own. Six points are awarded for each hole. If there is an outright winner and an outright second place then it is four points to the winner and two to the second place. If two people tie for first it is three points each to them. If two people tie for second they get a point. If everyone ties the hole they get two points each.
A player can seem out of it, and then get on a run of a few good holes, and a bundle of four pointers, and they are suddenly be right back up there.
To make things simpler, if you want to leave the pencil in the bag, the scores can be simplified after each hole. So, whoever has the lowest score, that score is taken back to zero and the same number of points deducted eg if the scores are 3-6-12, they can be adjusted to 0-3-9. The scores will always be divisible by three.
There is a a variation where, if you win a hole by two strokes, then you…
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