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Originally Posted by golfguy1874
Need someone to shead some light on the topic.  Quick rundown:
Played a traditional 4 man scramble tourney Friday. 3 teams (including mine) were in the clubhouse at -8. Now my first reaction is... ok, in an event of a tie, they'll go to the #1 handicapped hole and lowest score on that hole would win. (If that was the case, the other 2 groups pared it and we birdied it.) But the club pro who did the scorecards did the tiebreaker in a totally different way, and stated that the group with the lowest back 9 was the winner, and that its a USGA ruling. It kind of sounds bush league, but the tourney is for a good cause so I didnt make much out of the ruling.
Does this ruling sound familiar to anyone???
Thanks
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Saying that it is a"USGA ruling" is ludicrous, since the Rules of Golf don't even contemplate the Scramble format. Any such resolution is solely up to the competition committee. There are lots of ways of resolving a tie, and some of them do involve matching cards. None of those are as palatable as a true playoff, but a playoff isn't always feasible on a regular course for such an event. Usually a course is already putting out casual golfers as soon as the tournament is over, so squeezing in any groups for a playoff just causes delays for those players who have already paid to play at that time. It's simply not fair to the others on the course.
My home course only allows playoffs in special circumstances in Men's club events, and then only in standard individual stroke play or match play tournaments. Any scrambles or other team events that we play in are settled by card playoffs for first place, and all other ties just share the combined money for those places equally.