Golfhos Ryder Cup: Teams, Format, And Sundry

TEAMS:

Player -- Location -- HCP
twoiron -- Australia -- 5.0
Dunk -- Canada -- 9.0
Walfredo -- OK -- 10.6
TFT -- Great Britain -- 12.0 -- Captain
campy -- WY -- 15.0
Uisce Beatha -- Ireland -- 16.2
1puttpar -- CA -- 17.2
Seamus -- WA -- 20.0
BFBoy -- OH -- 22.5
tdcoly -- PA -- 22.7
Salamander -- Greece -- 26.0
wishi -- Australia -- 30.0

Player -- Location -- HCP
fuzzmental -- MN -- 6.4 -- Captain
Aske -- PA -- 10.6
JDerion -- NJ -- 13.1
MFAWG -- WA -- 14.6
stroh -- MN -- 16.0
golfer ray -- OK -- 17.0
Teed -- VA -- 19.5
Clive -- NC -- 20.3
azsgolf -- TX -- 22.7
lennyquai -- GA -- 24.0
spaceage -- UT -- 26.0

Please review the above information for yourself and let me know if anything is incorrect.

(Please note that all the damn foreigners have been placed on one team.)


FORMAT:

• Three rounds of matches, each of nine holes.  The teams are roughly 12-a-side; a total of 21 matches will take place, culminating with 11 singles on the final day.
• The first two rounds will feature a total of 10 fourball matches, with the order of play determined through mutual agreement by fake captains.  Fourball matches involve two-person teams with each player playing his own ball and completing the hole. The best net score of the four wins the hole.  In singles matches, the result is decided when one player leads by more holes than there are holes left to play.
• Everyone plays on the final day.  (Well, there's one odd-man-out, but we'll deal with it somehow.)

HOW IT WORKS:

• TFT and fuzzmental have been selected as fake team captains, as they are their respective teams' lowest US and non-US handicappers for whom Golfhos hasn't been blocked at work.
• Fake team captains submit their order of play before each round of matches to an appointed tournament official.  The lists from each fake captain are then matched, resulting in the pairings.
• If any player plays 18, the front nine score will be used as the GHRC score.
• I will need your score and the rating/slope of the course you play (for the tee set you played from).
• Handicaps will applied for each hole, with net score determining if the hole has been won or halved.
• A mildly offensive trophy will be awarded the winning team.

NEXT ACTION:
Captains, please each submit your list of ten names.  They will be paired as fourball teams and matches, in the order you submit them.  The first round of matches should be completed by end of day Sunday, 15th May.

Do we use the course rating and divide by two for the nine hole rating, or do you want the actual slope and rating for the nine you play (available on the usga website for American courses)?

http://www.usga.org/playi.../course_rating_lookup.asp

We need to see if twoiron and wishi even have the option of playing a USGA rated course.  I know they're few and far between in Ireland. 

Stupid n00b point of clarification: I'm playing in a 4-man scramble next week. How, if at all, would this apply and/or need to be reported?

Fuzzy, here I was thinking who could be your "Teneale"...........and dammit, I remembered we are fierce opponents!!!!!!!!

You bloody yanks had better watch out, because I am playing really good at the moment!!!!
I might even break 100 this week!!!!!

Uummm, do you mean the 13th of May?

If you have the rating/slope for the nine you play, give it.  If not, give me the course and the 18-hole rating/slope.  (I reserve the right to look it up and see if I can find the nine-hole numbers.)

If you aren't playing your own ball tee to hole, the score is unusable.  Have fun!