Biarritz Scramble Cup 2021

The X Stanford Europe Golf Tournament - Biarritz Scramble Cup 2021 will be held on Saturday August 21st with departures every ten minutes from 12h30 pm at the golf course Biarritz Le Phare. We recommend arriving at 12h00 to take a group photo and to receive any final instructions and gifts that we may have prepared. These hours may change depending on the number of players. The players, handicap and tee-off times will be sent by email the day before. Changing room facilities will be open till 20h. The cocktail-dinner will be held from 20h to 22h30 at the Clubhouse which will be closed for us.

The registration fee is 100€ per person. It covers everything, including green fee, prizes, presents and cocktail-dinner. A fee of 40€ applies to non-players coming only to the cocktail; they will participate in the presents’ lottery. These fees applied if booked and paid by August14th, otherwise it will be 110€ and 50€ respectively. Registration cancelled before August 14th or dinner cancellations received before August 19th will be fully refunded.

The organizers can be contacted by email at marcelino.elosua@gmail.com or by phone during August at +33 5 59 22 04 87 .

Good luck to all and have a great time!

By registering, you are authorizing Stanford Alumni to use in its site and for matters directly related to the tournament, your full name and photos taken during the game or the dinner and to communicate with you by email and mobile.

To complete the inscription please send to marcelino.elosua@gmail.com the following:

• Full name
• Country and your number of registration in a golf federation
• Handicap (as of registration date, though it will be updated on August 20th)
• Email address
• Mobile number

For guests attending only the dinner we just need the first name and the full name of the player inviting the guest.

Please transfer the full amount of the fees, at the same time you are sending the registration details, to the account in the bank BBVA in Madrid (Spain), under the name of Marcelino Elosua, IBAN ES58 0182 7080 1602 0158 0119, Swift code BBVAESMM if you are making an international transfer. Use the remarks field to explain your calculation of fees and include your name and your partner’s name.

1. Participation is by invitation only, but we are open to Stanford and Ryder Club alumni and to golfers around Biarritz, so please contact us. We do not discriminate by handicap. You must belong to a golf federation. Even if we play by pairs, you do not need to be two people to register.
2. The handicap is the official one, but the Competition Committee could assess a different one if the need arises.
3. Once the list of participants is closed the players with lower handicaps will be matched with players from the other half by lottery, trying to have two mixed couples for each tee off time.
4. The handicap of the pair is calculated following these steps: i) the lower handicap is multiplied by 0.35; ii) the higher handicap is multiplied by 0.15; and iii) those two numbers are added and rounded to the nearest unit.
5. The pairs will tee off starting with the lowest pair handicap.
6. For every hole, the pair must choose at least one stroke of each partner. Violation of this rule will have a two-stroke penalty if the hole is completed in three strokes or more, and a one-stroke penalty if completed in two strokes. There is no penalty if you do hole-in-one.
7. If the ball is on the fairway -and of course, on the green- it can be picked up and placed. In these two cases the pair can choose which player goes first. In the rest of the cases, the player who played the chosen ball must play first or is deemed to have waived his turn. The ball will be dropped for the other player on the same site without advantage except in the green, fairway, and bunker where it will be placed. A player may give up his turn before or after the other player has played. Violation of any of these rules will have a one-stroke penalty.
8. There will be prizes for the winning pair (Champions), the finalists (Runners Up), and prizes for the best approach and longest drive, both for females and males. We distinguish the pair finishing with more strokes with a prize for being the very last ones (Quinces). That includes disqualified pairs (the prize going to the pair with the highest accumulated strokes at the time of the disqualification). It is played medal, that is, total strokes. Ties are solved by: i) taking into account the last nine holes; and if necessary, ii) by advancing the pair with the highest difference in age of the members in the pair.
9. In matters not covered here we will apply local rules for local issues and rules of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation and the International for general ones. For clarification, balls for the best approach and drive must be on the green or on the actual fairway, respectively; and a local rule considers the grey paths as playground.
10. The Competition Committee is made up of María Altolaguirre, Manuel Asin and Marcelino Elosua. Its decisions are final.

The goals of the Biarritz Scramble rules are that all players should play and being accounted for, and no single stroke should break the good mood by itself. The Biarritz Scramble allows choosing the most appropriate shot each time, which is not always the best one. Remember that in each hole you must use at least one stroke of each player; and, therefore, it usually pays to take both players into account before getting to the green. It is best to use a good ball of the player that is playing worse as soon as possible, even if the other ball is marginally better. Your game will not be damaged by hard luck at the last minute. If you are shooting for birdie and the ball is on the green or in the fairway, remember that you can alter the order of playing. In a par 3 you may finish with a birdie with both balls from the same player, but you will have to add one stroke as penalty for a total of three strokes, in order to recognize the higher achievement of the same result obtained by the combined effort of the two members of the pair.

Champions normally beat par by several strokes, so do not get distracted. The dubious Quinces distinction -by the way, the most-celebrated one- adds some spark to the bottom of the table.

The starting order will be announced on Friday, August 20 at 5 pm. Afterwards, the results will be known at the dinner on Saturday and we will upload them here along with the photos on Monday, August 23. Thank you very much to everyone for participating in the championship or in the dinner and to our sponsors for joining us.

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