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sk any good golfer on this thread...it's not possible to shoot 36 in this format.

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Total crap. I played this format one time. I watched the only kid in my group shoot 35. He was an above average college golfer but nothing amazing. The course was very hard too. You put Tiger on a municipal golf course thats like 6500 yards and he shoots like 66 or better taking the worst of two balls.

I shot 48 and played terribly and I was probably 17.

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lol at the bold. get real.

Ok, let me get this straight, you guys are not talking about just taking the worst tee shot, and then playing the hole out from there. You are really talking about a true reverse-scramble, where you are always hitting two balls, and each time from the "worst" location of the previous ball.

If this is the case, keep in mind that on a par four you hit a drive 280 down the middle, and then hit one 265 in the rough. You are then playing the one in the rough.

You then hit a 155 yard 8 iron to 10 feet on one shot, but put the next 155 yard 8 iron in the bunker 30 feet left of the pin.

You then have to play that bunker shot, and put one on the green. No problem, but you are then playing from your worse bunker shot.

You can probably two putt from the worst bunker shot, but now you have a bogey, and you are 1 over after the first hole. Now if you were able to play that 1st 8 iron, then you have a 10 foot birdie putt. But your are not, so you have a bogey.

Now play that scenerio out over 9 holes or 18 holes and just think how precise you have to be just to par a hole.

I mean you also have to think about the compounding problems. Let's say you tee off on a par 5 and hit one great shot, but one shot is near the lip of a fairway bunker. Not only are you stuck playing the bunker shot, but you have to take the worst result from there, and then the worst result from that one, etc.

Anyway, I still maintain that the guy in the initial story is NOT shoting 36 in this format if he is having to play his 36 CONSECUTIVE WORST shots. Also, you are not going to run into a College kid at a muni whose 35 CONSECUTIVE WORST shots are going to have him draining his 35th shot on the 9th hole.


Let me put it another way. Let's say you got a hot-shot College kid that shoots 68 pretty steady. I doubt anyone of us would argue that if he could play two-ball-best-ball with himself, he could maybe shoot between 60-63 on a good day. Let's be generous and give him a 60, for an 8 stroke difference, and keep in mind that he did this by getting to use his 60 consecutive best shots... Now make him play two-ball worst ball, and explain how his 60 to 80 CONSECUTIVE worst shots could even see him breaking 75. It's not happening. Even if most of the misses are only slight, you are piling worst shot upon worst shot upon worst shot for the entire game. The cumulative effect is not going to be 66 or 72. Sorry.