2024 Team Competition - Leaderboard and Information

LEADERBOARD

The final leaderboard after the Club Championships concluded on Sunday 24 November. Well done Fireballs - confirmed as champions this year!
Dragons are also confirmed as in 2nd place and 4 Aces in 3rd place with Stingers in 4th this year. Ideas welcomed from members on how we can tweak this comp to keep it super interesting as winning points for academic reasons isn't compelling is it? We've decided also to remove that each team needs a group of 4 for the Scramble on 14 December so all players can team together as they wish i.e. no need to wait to see if your team captain has picked you.

Here's the final table:

TEAM MEMBERS

The more active team players:

The inactive or occasional team players:

BACKGROUND

This exciting team event will run again in 2024 after a successful first competition in 2023 (won by Dragons). There are 4 teams, each with a captain:

Dragons - Mark Foxwell / Ami Guilfoyle,
Fireballs - Steven Brader / Richard White,
4 Aces - Craig Leamy,
Stingers - Dietmar Bandat / Stefan Kuhn

Every active* member of the Londoners group in True Handicap is a member of a team (decided at the start of 2023 by a NFL style draft followed by round robin assignment). New Londoner members are assigned a team based on the number of currently active players to maintain fairness.

Points are awarded based on positions achieved at regular events (just like the Order of Merit e.g. if 32 players participate in an event then the winner scores 32 points, 2nd place scores 31 and so on right down to last place who scores 1 point) and the total of the points won at each event will decide which team won the event. Points are then awarded to form a league table:
1st placed team - 10 points
2nd placed team - 7 points
3rd placed team - 5 points
4th placed team - 4 points

As well as team points being awarded at Strokeplay event there will also be an InterTeam Matchplay part to the competition at Rivalry Events. There will be 3 of these and each team will play each other once. The Rivalry Events are scheduled for to be decided. Captains will choose 6 players** from their team to face off in 2 pairs and 2 singles.

Team MatchPlay Details

Schedule:

Inter-team MatchPlay #1: Saturday 9 March at Floraville

Inter-team MatchPlay #2: Saturday 10 August at Muang Kaew

Inter-team MatchPlay #3: Saturday 26 October at Vintage

Format of Interteam MatchPlay competition:

6 players per team (2 pairs and 2 singles). Captain’s choice.
Matchplay. 1 point for front 9; 1 point for back 9; 2 points for overall. 4 points awarded per game (just like the inter-society format).
*all players are in the StrokePlay individual competition, Team competition and Order of Merit same as normal – Strokeplay rules take precedence i.e. no gives; players must hole out.

Scoring:

16 points available (as 4 matches between each team during a Rivalry event)
Multiplier of 3 in operation to give MatchPlay additional weighting versus the Strokeplay comps
Plus 10 bonus points to the winning team (5 points for a tie; 0 for a loss)
Total points available – 58 (in theory a team could win by 58 to 0)