Festival St Valentine's Day event will

now be an "Ambrose Scramble"

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Festival Organiser
Good news for Hacienda del Alamo Festival competitors who are playing in the St Valentine's Day team event on Saturday, February 14. They will have to pay only 15 Euros of an entry fee each.
Because we have not received enough entries from lady professionals, we have had to scap the original concept of a pro-am.
Now we have homed in on the idea of a Scramble with teams of three or four amateurs. On the advice of Ladies Golf Union Head of Golf Operations, Susan Simpson, we will probably use the "Ambrose Scramble" format for producing net scores.
For teams of three players, all their handicaps are added together and divided by six. That gives you a figure which is deducted from the team's gross total.
For teams of four players, the aggregate of their handicaps is divided by eight before being deducted from the gross total.
There will be prizes for scratch and handicap totals.
Don't worry if you have never played in a Scramble before. We will give every player a sheet of the "Rules" but basically, everybody drives off, you select your best tee shot and then everybody plays a shot from within a specified distance of that ball ... and that is repeated until the best ball is holed out.

Billy Sim, the Hacienda del Alamo Director of Golf, says:
"We run a lot of Scrambles out here and, without fail, they are a lot of fun. This one will be no exception."
The really good news is that because we have been unable to put on the pro-am we promised, we are reducing the entry fee for all Festival competitors in the Saturday Scramble to a flat 15 Euros each.