Rules & Formulas

• Nine holes a week, par 36 for the side.
• Two players per team; you play the one team you’re matched against, not the whole field.
• Any single hole is capped at 10 strokes for scoring purposes.
• Handicaps do the leveling — a higher handicap receives strokes against a lower one (see §5).

• A clean roundis one you played yourself (not a sub), that wasn't dropped as a worst round, and wasn't a tournament week.
• The 36 is par for the nine — so a 44 average is an 8 handicap.
• It’s a rolling window: every new clean round pushes out the oldest, so your number tracks how you’re playing now.
• Your handicap is always a whole number — the average is rounded off (an exact ½ rounds to the nearest even number, the way the old site always did).

• The starting point is last season's ending handicap, turned back into a scoring average (ending handicap + 36). That ending number reflects your final six rounds — your end-of-year form.

The two weights shift every round until last season drops out completely at round six:

• Miss a week? It still counts toward how far into the season you are — your this-season percentage keeps climbing on the calendar — but only the rounds you actually played go into your average. Nothing is filled in for the week you missed.
• Example:you were an 8 last year, shoot a 50 (14 over), miss the next week, then a 46 (10 over). You're 3 weeks in → 50/50. Your this-season average is just your two real rounds — (14 + 10) ÷ 2 = 12 over — so 8 × ½ + 12 × ½ = a 10.
• The blended number is rounded to a whole handicap (banker’s rounding).

• 9 — hole points: one per hole, lowest net score wins it (a tie splits ½–½).
• +1 — most holes won outright across the nine.
• +1 — fewest putts for the round.
• +1 — lowest net total.
• Net score on a hole = your gross (capped at 10) minus any handicap strokes you get there. Every point can split ½–½ on a tie.

• They go to the lowest stroke-index (hardest) holes first; if it’s more than nine, it wraps around for a second stroke.
• Example: an 8 against a 5 → the 8 gets 3 strokes, one on each of the three hardest holes.

• That’s the 12-point era (2019–present). Before 2019 the league used an 11-point match and the line was 5.5.
• A sub playing in your place doesn’t earn you a win or a loss — except on tournament weeks.

• Every counting week, each player’s match points go to their team’s running total.
• If a sub fills in for an absent partner, those points still count for the team — you never lose ground because someone couldn’t make it.

• Only the sole-lowest gross on a hole wins; any tie carries — no skin that hole.
• The pot is that week’s skins pool plus anything carried over, split evenly across all skins won that night.
• Not eligible: subs, dropped worst rounds, and anyone sitting out the skins pool.
• A night with zero skins carries the whole pot forward.

• The CTP hole is marked ahead of time.
• If no one wins it that week, the pot carries over and grows the next week.

• A higher total ranks higher. Lower scores and fewer putts help you; match points help most of all.
• Only your own clean rounds feed it.

• Counts:your team's standings, and your season points total.
• Doesn't count: scoring average, putting average, handicap, win–loss record, club records, leaders, and the World Ranking.
• The idea: the team shouldn’t be punished for an absence, but a sub’s round isn’t your performance.

• One ball per team. Both partners hit, you take the better shot, and both play on from there.
• One 12-point match between the two team balls — same nine, with the most-holes, fewest-putts and low-net bonuses like any week. That 0–12 result is credited to each partner, so the team’s standings line is the two added together (out of 24).
• Personal stats are untouched — the scramble never changes anyone’s scoring average, putting average, handicap, low round, or club records. It only moves points, win–loss, team standings and skins.
• Skins are team skins: the team’s best ball wins the hole, and the pot is split between the two partners.

• The gap between the two team handicaps is halved and rounded once (half-up); the higher-handicap team gets that many strokes, on the hardest holes first.
• Example: Team 20.5 vs Team 13.0 → gap 7.5 ÷ 2 = 3.75 → 4 strokes to the higher team.
• Subs: if a sub changes a team’s real handicap, the strokes given can be adjusted by hand at score entry so the match stays fair.

• Each team gets one mulligan for the round — mulligans (“moles”) are allowed in the Crestweed Classic.
• Both partners re-hit the same shot. A mulligan replays the shot that was just hit, and both players take it — the team re-hits together; it isn’t one partner’s personal do-over.
• One per team, and it must be the same shot for both partners.
• Closest-to-the-pin is still an individual award — the scramble format doesn’t change CTP.