GOLF FORMAT · COMPLETE RULES

Golf Tournaments

Use the selected golf format to produce the lowest stroke total, highest points total, most skins, or winning match-play record.

Players
Individuals, pairs, or teams
Typical time
9 or 18 holes
In the app
Rules + scorekeeping
01

Choose the format

  1. Stroke play: Lowest gross or net total wins.
  2. Match play: Win holes and advance through a bracket or round robin.
  3. Scramble: The team selects one shot and plays from that spot.
  4. Best ball / four-ball: Count the best one or two scores on each hole.
  5. Shamble: Select one drive, then finish with individual balls.
  6. Chapman / Pinehurst: Partners switch after the drives, select a ball, then alternate.
  7. Foursomes / alternate shot: Partners alternate shots with one ball.
  8. Stableford: Points are awarded by score relative to par.
  9. Modified Stableford: Reward aggressive play with a custom points table.
  10. Skins: The unique low score wins the hole and any carryover.
  11. Nassau: Track the front nine, back nine, and overall match.
  12. Bingo Bango Bongo: Award first on, closest to the pin, and first holed out.
02

Set the competition

  1. Choose nine or eighteen holes, the course and tees, individual or team entrants, and any local rules.
  2. Gross scoring uses strokes played. Net scoring subtracts allocated handicap strokes using each hole’s stroke index and the event’s handicap allowance.
  3. Team events can count one best ball, two best balls, or every team score. Scramble, shamble, Chapman/Pinehurst, four-ball, and alternate-shot sides should be registered as teams.
03

Match play

  1. Singles, four-ball, foursomes, and greensomes match styles are available.
  2. Choose a seeded single-elimination bracket or a round-robin schedule.
  3. Record the completed match result in the bracket. A tied elimination match must be resolved under the event’s selected playoff rule.
04

Hole scorecard

  1. For each hole, enter par, stroke index, gross strokes, and course handicap where net scoring is used.
  2. Tourn.app calculates allocated handicap strokes, net score, score relative to par, Stableford points, and cumulative totals.
  3. Bingo Bango Bongo records the three hole awards directly. Skins can carry ties into the next hole.
RULE REFERENCESUSGA Rules of GolfR&A Rules of Golf