Since we started leagues we figured we ought to highlight the top questions we get from new teams. Moving forward, if you’ve got a question about our simulators (have you tried our Laser Shot Shooting sim yet?) or leagues feel free to shoot us an email at GOLF@caddyshackduluth.com

Odds are, you’re not the first to ask it and we’ll probably end up sharing it here to help clarify for others. Teamwork!

STARTING WITH SUBSTITUTES

Substitutes are allowed in our indoor golf leagues. We don’t need to keep their information on hand for league play. One thing to note: your sub does not get to have their own handicap; your handicap will apply to their stroke play. Other than that, it really couldn’t be easier. Find someone you’re happy to have to swing for you, alert your teammate, and then just make sure one of you makes your reservation for the week! You can play ahead, but you cannot make up league play after the week has ended.

HANDICAPS

How do we calculate handicaps, anyway?? Great question!

We play Team Best Ball; we use the score from whichever player on the team has the best score (best ball) for the hole. So, say we’re a team and playing the back 9 of Quail Hollow: on hole number 10 (par 5) I shoot a 15 because I am absolute garbage at golf, and you shoot a 7. Thankfully, we get to use your 7 on that hole! Ten is the max score, so my 15 will also simply be counted as 10. One thing to note: we don’t use negative handicaps in our leagues, and we’ll let you ask about why that is.

LEAGUE RANKINGS

Everybody wants to be #1, but how do you get the top spot? If once handicaps are calculated and applied (3rd week) your team gets 1st place then you also receive 10pts for that week’s play. The 2nd place team will receive 9pts, and so on until 10th place. Any team that scores below 10th place will receive zero points for that week. Due to the popularity of leagues, we’ll split the total number of teams into four pools after week 3; the top 12 teams will make up Pool A, and the remaining teams will be in Pool B, C, and Pool D.

One thing to note: mulligans are a tie-breaker – use them wisely.

MULLIGANS

Everyone gets one mulligan per game, or every team gets 2 Mulligans per game and anything beyond that is counted against their best ball score. I.e. if they shoot 38 and have three mulligans, their final score ends up being 39 - 2 with those two mulligans counting for tie breakers.

For scoring purposes, free drops are added in with the mulligans. Safe drops and hole concessions are taken care of by the computer, so you're not double penalized for those!