Stableford

The Stableford is a form of play in the Gulf, which was invented in 1898 by Frank Stableford, 1932 for the first time officially applied and incorporated into the Rules of Golf 1968.

This so-called Stableford points the player receives at each hole for the part played score according to the following table:

A score of four under par has been previously documented in a tournament with Stableford scoring, but would be rated accordingly with 6 Stableford points.

It is characteristic of the Stableford scoring that particularly bad holes played under disproportionately carry weight, since there are no negative scores. A not played to the end hole is marked with a line on the score card and also counts 0 points. In stableford sweepstakes, it is therefore common for a player who can not achieve more points on a hole, for the sake of saving time picking up his ball and so the game ended on this hole.

With a net score Stableford the player gets called Default blows that are distributed to the holes to be played. So every stroke sets the default "personal par " up to a shock.

With two preset beats and a hole result one shot over par ( bogey ), the player gets three Stableford points, a score of 3 over par would nevertheless still a point, as it were, the " personal Bogey " would be equivalent.

If the number of strokes a player is entitled to default not a multiple of the number of gambling holes, so necessarily there will be a non-uniform distribution. This one is based on the difficulty of the holes, which is determined in advance by the operator of the golf course. The default shocks are then allocated to the easiest hole in order from the most difficult. The difficulty of a hole is thereby generally on the scorecard in a column with the heading " HCP " ( for the disabled ); The most severe web 1, the second worst, etc. indicated with 2. If a player has a total of 19 preset beats, so he has to 17 of 18 tracks a default beat ( may thus play a shot over par, to obtain two Stableford points) and on the heaviest track ( HCP 1) two preset beats. It may therefore play here two over par, to obtain even two Stableford points.

If a player scores in the net score on each hole average of two points, this results in 18 × 2 = 36 points, and he is said to have " played his handicap " exactly. In countries like Germany, where the handicaps of golfers are determined Stableford, a score may not equal 36 lead to an improvement or deterioration of the handicap.

Variants

Sometimes there are tournaments with a modified version of the Stableford system, for example, The International. There are specially bogeys less weight compared to results under par, so that participants generally play aggressively.