i am playing in a yellow peril comp on saturday first time for me anyone 
tell me the format?

"Thomopac"  wrote in message 
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>i am playing in a yellow peril comp on saturday first time for me anyone 
>tell me the format?
>

I would guess it is a yellow ball competition. You will be playing in a 
2/3/4 ball in an individual stableford comp. The group will also be in a 
yellow ball team competition.

at hole 1 player A uses the yellow ball. The score is for his and the team 
card.
hole 2, player B uses the yellow ball for his and team score
player C at hole 3, player D at hole 4 and then back to A for hole 5 and 
continue rotation ;o) adjust for 2 or 3 ball.

Team score stops after 18 holes and yellow ball is returned or at the point 
where the yellow ball is lost.

good fun - enjoy it. If it is not this format, please post the answer!

Ian

Another YELLOW competition is a Yellowsome as opposed to a greensome.

It is the worst form of game that you could ever imagine. Both
partners play from the tee and and in the case of a greensome they
then choose the ball which suits their own purposes and play on as a
foursome. Bad enough but in a yellowsome the opposition chooses which
ball they must play. Imagine on a short hole the first player goes OOB
and the second holes in one! The opposition then choose the OOB ball
with the result that you are playing three from the tee!

If this is the one.....go home!

JPW

Ian wrote:
> "Thomopac"  wrote in message
> news:0LudnQ_FibbERbXaRVnyggA@eclipse.net.uk...
>> i am playing in a yellow peril comp on saturday first time for me
>> anyone tell me the format?
>>
>
> I would guess it is a yellow ball competition. You will be playing in
> a 2/3/4 ball in an individual stableford comp. The group will also be
> in a yellow ball team competition.
>
> at hole 1 player A uses the yellow ball. The score is for his and the
> team card.
> hole 2, player B uses the yellow ball for his and team score
> player C at hole 3, player D at hole 4 and then back to A for hole 5
> and continue rotation ;o) adjust for 2 or 3 ball.
>
> Team score stops after 18 holes and yellow ball is returned or at the
> point where the yellow ball is lost.
>
> good fun - enjoy it. If it is not this format, please post the answer!
>
> Ian

We play a varient on that. Teams of 3, stableford, with 2 scores to count, 
except yellow ball scores double points. Yellow ball rotates between the 
members of the team. If the yellow ball is lost (including in a hazard) then 
whoever loses it can put another ball in play BUT it is no longer a yellow 
ball and only counts as a single score, yellow ball remains lost for the 
rest of the round.
So there is conflicting pressure to a) score well with the yellow ball and 
b) not to lose it.
At our club the 2nd hole has a long (for seniors) carry over water, there is 
always a fight not to have the yellow ball on that hole.
KenH




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"Ian"  wrote in message 
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> "Thomopac"  wrote in message 
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>>i am playing in a yellow peril comp on saturday first time for me anyone 
>>tell me the format?
>>
>
> I would guess it is a yellow ball competition. You will be playing in a 
> 2/3/4 ball in an individual stableford comp. The group will also be in a 
> yellow ball team competition.
>
> at hole 1 player A uses the yellow ball. The score is for his and the team 
> card.
> hole 2, player B uses the yellow ball for his and team score
> player C at hole 3, player D at hole 4 and then back to A for hole 5 and 
> continue rotation ;o) adjust for 2 or 3 ball.
>
> Team score stops after 18 holes and yellow ball is returned or at the 
> point where the yellow ball is lost.
>
> good fun - enjoy it. If it is not this format, please post the answer!
>
> Ian
Unfortunately one of the open (seniors) competitions I have played in has, 
for the past two years, ruined what for me used to be a very good stableford 
competition by giving each four a rock hard yellow Ultra ball to be used in 
turn. Although wanting the 'team' to do well, each of us was hoping that one 
of of the others would lose the bloody thing in a lake.
Competition organisers please take note.

Norman.

JPW wrote:
> Another YELLOW competition is a Yellowsome as opposed to a greensome.
> 
> It is the worst form of game that you could ever imagine. Both
> partners play from the tee and and in the case of a greensome they
> then choose the ball which suits their own purposes and play on as a
> foursome. Bad enough but in a yellowsome the opposition chooses which
> ball they must play. Imagine on a short hole the first player goes OOB
> and the second holes in one! The opposition then choose the OOB ball
> with the result that you are playing three from the tee!
> 
> If this is the one.....go home!
> 
> JPW
> 
Pat

Gruesome greensomes.

Never played it,  very unlikely to also! 


Bill

FOA 2008

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> "Ian"  wrote in message 
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>> "Thomopac"  wrote in message 
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> Unfortunately one of the open (seniors) competitions I have played in has, 
> for the past two years, ruined what for me used to be a very good 
> stableford competition by giving each four a rock hard yellow Ultra ball 
> to be used in turn. Although wanting the 'team' to do well, each of us was 
> hoping that one of of the others would lose the bloody thing in a lake.
> Competition organisers please take note.
>
> Norman.
If I run it, I call it a Golden Ball competition and usually link it with 
the format  Ken Hoyle describes.

To avoid buying balls (I am a Yorkshire man), and to avoid the usual 
complaints about having to hit rock hard distance balls, I simply require 
the player whose turn it is to play the golden ball, to play his own ball 
and double his stableford points for the hole.
That way also, if a ball is lost, it affects only the score for that hole.

Malcolm

"JPW"  wrote in message 
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> Another YELLOW competition is a Yellowsome as opposed to a greensome.
>
> It is the worst form of game that you could ever imagine. Both
> partners play from the tee and and in the case of a greensome they
> then choose the ball which suits their own purposes and play on as a
> foursome. Bad enough but in a yellowsome the opposition chooses which
> ball they must play. Imagine on a short hole the first player goes OOB
> and the second holes in one! The opposition then choose the OOB ball
> with the result that you are playing three from the tee!
>
> If this is the one.....go home!
>
> JPW
>

There's a variety of this played between Tiger Woods & JP McManus at some 
charity trash a few years ago.

Both players took two goes at each shot. JP chose which of the two balls 
each player had to play. JP is a 13-14 handicapper and has won the Dunhill 
links with Padraig Harrington a few times so obviously quite a good player

Interestingly, he beat Tiger in this format quite easily :-)