2025 Team Competition - Leaderboard and Information

LEADERBOARD

The 4 Aces dominance has been ended as Stingers awoke from their post-Christmas malaise and took a shock victory last time out. Interestingly the event winner every time this year has powered their team to a victory.

Here's the current table (after 22 February event):

TEAM MEMBERS

The more active team players:

The inactive or occasional team players:

BACKGROUND

This exciting team event will run again in 2025 after a successful first competition in 2023 (won by Dragons) and in 2024 (won by Fireballs). There are 4 teams, each with a captain:

Dragons - Mark Foxwell,
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.

NEW FOR 2025!! 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 - 4 points
2nd placed team - 3 points
3rd placed team - 2 points
4th placed team - 1 point

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 26 April at Vintage
Dragons vs 4 Aces
Stingers vs Fireballs

Inter-team MatchPlay #2: Saturday 14 June at Subhapruek
Fireballs vs 4 Aces
Stingers vs Dragons

Inter-team MatchPlay #3: Saturday 11 October at tbc
Stingers vs 4 Aces
Fireballs vs Dragons

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:

To be confirmed for 2025 - the multiplier used in 2023 and 24 has been removed:
16 points available (as 4 matches between each team during a Rivalry event)
Plus 10 bonus points to the winning team (5 points for a tie; 0 for a loss)
Total points available – 26 (in theory a team could win by 26 to 0)