4-Ball
This is a four person team
game; two standard couples comprise a team.
On various holes two players are partnered as follows:
Holes 1 thru 6: Couples are
partners.
Holes 7 thru 12: Opposite
couples are partners.
Holes 13 thru 18: Men are
partners and women are partners.
On each hole, all players hit
from tee then each partnership selects one ball. Each partnership moves to their selected ball
and both players hit from that spot.
Continue this pattern thru the hole.
The result is
Enter team score on
Handicap: No dots on scorecard. Mark 50% of total players’ handicaps on team score line.
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.