4-Ball 3 Scramble + Colored Ball

This is a four person team game; two standard couples comprise a team. Each four person team will be issued two colored balls marked to identify that team.  The scorecards will be marked to show which player plays the colored ball on each hole.

On each hole, the designated player will play the colored ball through the hole and record their gross and net score on their scorecard line and on the "Colored Ball" scorecard line.  The other three players will scramble by selecting one of the three players' balls on each shot and all hitting from that spot until the ball is in the hole then recording that score on the "Scramble Score" scorecard line. The result is two scores for the team for each hole; there are no individual scores.

The Colored Ball total team score counts for prizes in the "Colored Ball Flight(s)" and the Scramble total team score counts for prizes in the "Scramble Flight(s)".  If a team's two colored balls are lost during the game, that team is disqualified from the Colored Ball Flight but continues to compete in the Scramble Flight with all four players scrambling starting with the next hole played after the second colored ball is lost.  In order to qualify for the Colored Ball Flight prizes, at least one of a team's originally issued colored balls must be turned in with their scorecard. If a team plays any ball other than one of the originally issued colored balls for score in the Colored Ball Flight, that team is disqualified from both flights.

Scramble balls may be placed within one club length on fairway and rough and 6 inches on green and in bunker, no closer to hole. (May not move from rough to fairway or out of bunker).

Handicap: Full dots on scorecard. Mark 1/3^rd of total players’ handicaps on team score line for computing net Scramble Score.

Pairings process as follows:

1. Pair standard couples line by line and compute a COUPLE INDEX for each couple.

2. Sort the list of couples by COUPLE INDEX (low to high)

3. Equally divide the list into flights of no more than sixteen couples for each flight. Example: With a field of 64 couples, the lowest 16 COUPLE INDEXs on the list make up Flight 1, the second lowest 16 COUPLE INDEXs make up Flight 2, etc.

4. Form the teams in each flight by pairing the highest COUPLE INDEX with the lowest COUPLE INDEX, second highest with second lowest, etc.