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Teams

Golf is frequently an individual sport, but sometimes you play on a team. You might just have a two-person team each playing their own ball, or an eightsome playing one ball. Your team score might be a gross score or a net score specially computed from individual handicaps. Golf Personal can handle team scoring and then let you use a team's results in Medal and Match Play just like you would use an individual's score.

Golf Personal uses a Team Window to keep track of team members, their scores and any special team scores that you would like to enter or compute. To open a new empty Team Window, choose New Team from the Golf menu or typeT (Shift-Command-T) on your keyboard.

You can quickly open a new Team Window by clicking on the New Team button in the toolbar.

 

Team Window with no Team members

A new untitled window will be opened, ready for you to add team members.

Add Player and Add Team Score Buttons

You can add a particular player to a team by clicking the Add Player button in the Team Window and selecting a player from those you have on file. You can also drag a player from the Players palette to the Team Window.

Team Window with Two Players

The players can be dragged into whatever position you think they belong. Golf Personal labels the players A, B, C, etc.

Team Name

Golf Personal also assigns a name for the team, based on the first player's name. You can change it if you wish.

To add a team score, just click the Add Team Score button and a new scoring block will be added to the team card - a place for you to enter a team score. You can add as many team scores as you wish.

Team Window with One Team Score

A team score can't be saved, as a player's score can, but they can be used (as we'll see later) for matches and medal play competitions.

The Team Score Selector Menu

The team scoring block contains two menus. The first, which is initially set to the "One ball (Team)" setting, allows you to select the type of team scoring represented by this block. The first two settings require that you enter scores for the team. The rest of the settings will automatically compute a team score result for you. The options are:

  • One ball (Team) - Multiple team members play (or score with) just one ball - like a Scramble, a threesome or a foursome.
  • Chapman/Pinehurst - Multiple team members score with one ball - usually in an alternate-shot format.
  • Better-ball (or Best-ball) - The best score of the balls of two or more team members - like the partners in a three-ball, best-ball or four-ball match.
  • 2 Best-balls - the total of the two best balls of a team of three or more players.
  • 3 Best-balls - the total of the three best balls of a team of four or more players.
  • Total - the total of all of the team member's scores.
  • 3/2/1 - the total of the best balls of three or more team members - three best-balls on a par 3, two best-balls on a par 4, and one best-ball on a par 5.
  • Stableford - total points of one or more team members, based on the players' scores relative to a fixed score (par or net par).
  • Modified Stableford - total Stableford points of one or more team members with extra points awarded for sub-par scores.
  • International - total points of one or more team members based on the International scoring system, which allows negative scores.

The Team Score Allowance Menu

The team score allowance selector, which is initially set to "Gross," allows you to indicate the handicapping allowance to be used to compute this team score. The available allowances are:

  • Gross - Team member scores are used as entered, without adjustment.
  • Full Handicap - Team member scores are adjusted at each hole by the full number of strokes allowed by their handicap - recommended for individual or total stroke play and Stableford competitions.
  • Men 90% Women 95% - Team member scores are adjusted by handicap strokes based on 90% of men's handicaps and 95% of women's handicaps - recommended for four-ball (better-ball of partners) and 2 best-ball competition.
  • Men 80% Women 90% - Team member scores are adjusted by handicap strokes based on 80% of men's handicaps and 90% of women's handicaps - recommended for best-ball of four competition.
  • A 50% B 20% - The "A" player receives 50% of the strokes based on their handicap, the rest of the team members receive 20% of the strokes based on their handicap - recommended for team one ball, Chapman and Pinehurst competition.
  • Average Combined - The team handicap is computed as the average of handicaps of all the team members - recommended for foursome competition.
  • Average Combined 80% - The team handicap is computed as 80% of the average of handicaps of all the team members - recommended for foursome competitions with a selected drive.

For team one ball or Chapman scoring, just enter the team scores in the space provided:

Team One ball Score Entered

This team score can now be used in a Match or Medal Scores Window (by dragging the little "team" icon into that window).

Round Handicap Checkbox

For team one ball and Chapman scores, you can indicate that the handicap used should be rounded (checked) or unrounded (unchecked) when computing the team's net score - useful for tie-breaking.

So far, we've seen players added to a team window. We can add a player's round to a Team Window (so we can use it to compute best-balls and other types of team scores) by linking a players round (on a Scorecard) to the Team Window. We might, for example, have a foursome of players on a Scorecard like this:

A Scorecard and Four Players

We'll use these four players in our illustrations for team scoring, Match Play and Medal Play. We're going to assume that Ty and Al will play as a two-man team against their playing partners. We open an empty Team Window for each two-man team and drag the players from the scorecard to their respective team windows.

There is no requirement that the players come from the same scorecard, or that they even play from the same tees. You may have several open scorecards from which you select team members. You can even drag a previously saved player's round from his open Player document window to a Team Window - you just won't be able to modify it there.

Team Window with Two Player's Rounds

The resulting "Team Webb" window includes a scoring block for each player. The symbol to the right of the block indicates that this information is "linked" to a round on a scorecard. That means that scores entered here will appear on the scorecard (or if entered on the scorecard, appear here). If the scorecard is closed and the round discarded, the round in the Team Window will be "unlinked" - modifiable but not savable. Rounds linked to previously saved rounds in the player's permanent record (his Player file) are shown as linked, but locked - not modifiable.

Two Players and their Two Better-Balls

In our illustrative competition, we add two team scores to each team - a team better-ball without handicap, and another team better-ball at full handicap. Golf Personal assumes that two (or more) team scores of the same type means the scores of two (or more) different balls will be required - that is, the same ball cannot be used for both team scores. In our example here, the best gross ball of the two players will be used for the gross better-ball score and the second ball used for the better-ball at full handicap. When the first ball scores are the same, Golf Personal will automatically choose the ball that results in the best score on the second ball.

Rating Adjustment Checkbox

If team members play from different tees, it is sometimes recommended that the handicaps of the competitors playing from the more difficult tees (those with higher course ratings) be adjusted for the difference between the ratings of the tees. Checking the Ratings Adjustment checkbox will tell Golf Personal to make those handicap adjustments automatically.

When our players finish their round and we've entered their scores - either directly on the scorecard or from the Team Windows, the resulting scorecard might look like this:

A Scorecard and Four Complete Rounds

Remember, you can also save all of these entered scores by choosing Save All Rounds from the Golf menu (or from the File menu) or by typingS from your keyboard. Of course, you can save each round individually too, by clicking its Save Round button.

Our Team Windows look like this:

Two Players and their Team Scores

The team's better-ball scores have been automatically determined by Golf Personal, with consideration of individual scores, handicap strokes applied as required, ratings adjustments if requested - all done for you.

   
   
   

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