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📈Stableford and Quota golf games: points scoring explained
Stableford flips golf’s arithmetic: instead of counting strokes up, you count points down the card. More for birdies, nothing for the blowups. It rewards aggression and forgives disaster, which is why leagues and big-group games love it.
The scales
Standard Stableford pays around par; Modified (the PGA’s Barracuda scale) pays big for birdies and punishes doubles. Plenty of groups run their own scale: the Wednesday 8/4/2/1/0 is alive and well.
- Standard: eagle 4 · birdie 3 · par 2 · bogey 1 · worse 0.
- Modified: eagle 5 · birdie 2 · par 0 · bogey −1 · double or worse −3.
- Custom: whatever your group already argues about. Set the five numbers and play.
Quota
The quota game gives every player a target, usually 36 minus your handicap, and the winner is whoever beats their quota by the most. It’s the fairest big-group game in golf: the 20-handicap and the 3 both have a real chance every week.
How Swilkin runs it
Swilkin scores standard, modified, and fully custom scales, shows points live while you enter scores, and runs quota with per-player targets on the leaderboard. Your league’s weird point scale is welcome here.