Competition formats and how they’re scored

rungolf.club runs every format a club calendar needs, over 9 or 18 holes. You pick the format when you create a competition, and the leaderboard scores it automatically as cards come in.

Every format

How the leaderboard ranks

• Stroke Play ranks by the lowest net score.
• Every other stroke format ranks by the most Stableford points.
• Match play is played as a knockout draw, with each match result moving the winner on.

Best-ball team formats: how many scores count

In Fourball, Better Ball, Waltz and Rumble, each player plays their own ball and the team’s best Stableford scores count on each hole. The defaults are:

• Fourball and Better Ball: the best 1 score on every hole.
• Waltz: 1, then 2, then 3 scores count, repeating every three holes.
• Rumble: 1 score counts on the first third of the holes, 2 on the second third and 3 on the last.

You can change the number for any hole when you set up the competition. For example, two to count on the par 3s, or four on the 18th. A player who picks up scores no points on that hole, and the team’s other scores still count.

Team-of-one-ball formats

In Foursomes, Mixed Foursomes, Scrambles and Texas Scrambles, the team shares one ball and one card, so there’s one score per hole for the whole team.

Entry fees

If the competition has an entry fee, it’s paid from the member’s wallet when they enter, and refunded to the wallet if they withdraw or the competition is cancelled. See how member wallets work.