{"id":6708,"date":"2022-08-02T16:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2022-08-02T16:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:22:18","slug":"decision-scramble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/decision-scramble\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision Scramble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a variation on the traditional scramble. Partners in the scramble have a decision to make on every shot and they have to live with their decision.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the rules:<\/p>\n<p>1. Each team can play two balls, one by each player. <\/p>\n<p>2. After the first ball is played, but <em>before<\/em> the second ball is played, the team must decide if it wants to play the first ball.<\/p>\n<p>3. If the team decides to play the first ball, that ball is in play for the team, and the second ball is not hit.<\/p>\n<p>4. If the team decides not to play the first ball it becomes <em>out of play<\/em>, and the second ball then gets hit. <\/p>\n<p>5. Since the first ball is no longer in play, the team MUST use the second ball for its next shot.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s best if partners have similar handicaps. If partners have significantly different handicaps, the player with the higher handicap should hit the first ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a variation on the traditional scramble. Partners in the scramble have a decision to make on every shot and they have to live with their decision. Here are the rules: 1. Each team can play two balls, one by each player. 2. After the first ball is played, but before the second ball &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/decision-scramble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Decision Scramble<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brilliant-ideas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1Kc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6709,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}