Ambrose

Type Stroke
Alias Ambrose Scramble, Ambrose Tournament
Format Tournament
Number of players 2, 3, 4+
Team or Individual play Team
  • While Ambrose can be played in teams of two to six players, it is usually played in twosomes or foursomes.
  • All players of the team tee off, and the best shot is selected. The team members pick up their balls and place them within a hand’s length of the best shot and play their second shots from t This process continues until the ball is holed. On the putting green, all players must putt from the same spot.
  • Only one score is recorded for each hole.

    Handicaps:

        Ambrose is played with handicaps, which are determined based on the individual handicaps of team members. There are two common methods of calculating handicaps in Ambrose:

            1. Team members calculate their individual course handicaps, which are added together and then divided by double the number of players in the team. For a two-player team, the course handicaps of the two players will be added and then divided by 4. For a three-player team, the handicaps will be added and divided by 6; for a four-player team, handicaps of all four players are added and then divided by 8, and so on. For example, in a two-player team of Players A and B who have handicaps of 13 and 18, respectively, their total handicap would be calculated as follows:

            (13 + 18) ÷ 4 = 7.75

            The tournament organizers decide whether to round off this figure to 8 or truncate it to 7.

            2. Another method to calculate handicap is for each player to calculate their course handicap. Percentages are then applied on these as follows:For a two-player team, 35% of Player A’s course handicap is added to 15% of Player B’s course handicap.For a three-player team, 20% of Player A’s course handicap, 15% of Player B’s handicap, and 10% of Player C’s handicap are added together to determine the team handicap.For a four-player team, 20% of the A player’s course handicap, 15% of the Player B’s course handicap, 10% of Player C’s, and 5% of Player D’s course handicaps are added together.

            Variation:

            In some tournaments, it is required that each player’s drive be used a certain number of times. Whether it is one, two, three, or more, it is decided by the tournament organizers before the start of the round. In most games, a minimum of three drives of each player has to be used.