What is a step aside scramble in golf?

Answer 1

Normal four-man scramble rules apply except the following: The player whose ball is selected by the group for playing the next shot is forbidden to participate in the next shot. This no-succession rule applies to every shot until the ball has been holed. Each team could be required to select one drive from each golfer on each nine hole side. The scorecards should be marked to show whose drive was selected on each hole. Threesomes electing to play four balls in this event, may assign the first six holes to one golfer, holes 7 through 12 to another golfer, and the final six holes to the remaining golfer, or permit each golfer to alternate taking two shots, excluding any "A" player. If the teams are equally flighted, low score wins. If the teams are mixed, then the average or computed handicap for each team will be subtracted from the gross score. Option #1: The no-succession rule could be changed to terminate once the ball is safely on the green of each hole, thus allowing every golfer to participate in putting until the ball is holed. The terminology for this option is called "through the green", while regular play calls for no succession "through the cup." Option #2: The true Step-Aside Scramble is played from the tee box on the first hole

through the cup on the eighteenth green. Instead of a 3 - man scramble with four drives on every tee box, you will have four drives only on the first tee. The team must carefully choose the golfer to hole short putts because that golfer will not be allowed to hit a ball off the next tee. This and the two games which follow are good strategy games for team development, comaraderie, collaboration, and cooperation. And, they are fun to play if the big egos are set aside. The ball closest to the pin is not always the

ball to select for play. You have to think about which player has the shot you need, and which player you can afford to have step aside for the following shot.