On the 14th February 1929 Al Capone's South Side gang murdered seven members of Bugs Moran's North Side gang in the last battle of Chicago's gangland wars during America's prohibition years.
On February 14th this year the Musketeers will commemorate the event by attempting to massacre the course at Pallanne in a very aptly named golf format called Chicago.
Chicago is an individual handicap event played against the course. This is how it works:
In a Chicago format players start the round with a negative number of points based on their handicap. Scratch golfers start at -39 with each handicap stroke over scratch adding one point to the starting figure (i.e. 5 handicapper would start with -34, 8 handicapper -31, 18 handicapper -21 etc.).
Players then try to move from a negative score to a positive score by adding one point for a bogey, two points for par, four points per birdie, and eight points for an eagle. This fun format encourages players to take risks trying to score under par; especially considering a double bogey or worse is worth zero points and doesn't bring down your score further. The player with the highest score (negative or not) wins.
Because we are (thankfully) a million miles from Prohibition, we will be playing for a prize of a bottle of vintage Champagne. There will be an entry fee of €2 and the competition is open to all paid-up members of the Musketeers Golf Society.
Join your fellow Musketeers on St. Valentine's Day and see if you can massacre the course, if not you can always murder a beer in the bar !
On February 14th this year the Musketeers will commemorate the event by attempting to massacre the course at Pallanne in a very aptly named golf format called Chicago.
Chicago is an individual handicap event played against the course. This is how it works:
In a Chicago format players start the round with a negative number of points based on their handicap. Scratch golfers start at -39 with each handicap stroke over scratch adding one point to the starting figure (i.e. 5 handicapper would start with -34, 8 handicapper -31, 18 handicapper -21 etc.).
Players then try to move from a negative score to a positive score by adding one point for a bogey, two points for par, four points per birdie, and eight points for an eagle. This fun format encourages players to take risks trying to score under par; especially considering a double bogey or worse is worth zero points and doesn't bring down your score further. The player with the highest score (negative or not) wins.
Because we are (thankfully) a million miles from Prohibition, we will be playing for a prize of a bottle of vintage Champagne. There will be an entry fee of €2 and the competition is open to all paid-up members of the Musketeers Golf Society.
Join your fellow Musketeers on St. Valentine's Day and see if you can massacre the course, if not you can always murder a beer in the bar !
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