Not a question so much, as I know it was called correctly, but it was a sore moment...

3-man scramble play, we are lining up a 4 footer for birdie. First guy in our team putts, it lips out by inches, he walks over and kind of normally taps it in. "You're done, Par" says the other team as they walk off the green. Before we others get a chance to try the putt for the birdie. "PGA rules" they said.

Yes, technically we holed out for par, but seemed a little harsh to throw that out on us at a fun scramble and the guy who tapped in is a younger player who didn't know better (actually, the cart guy at the course).

From there out, we methodically marked every putt.

However, the cart guy got one back on the next tee box, when he called out the player on the other team for teeing up in front of the tee markers, heh heh.

Everyone knows the "rules" of a scramble yet I rarely see anything in writing. I have always wondered about the idea that if one member holes out the entire team takes that score. Never seen that rule in black & white yet everyone seems to "know" the rule. I don't like it.

At least you were able to stick it to the "Scramble Rules Snob".

PGA rules ofcourse have nothing to do with a scramble (since that is no official game format anyway). Thus calling "PGA rules" is absolutely nonsense.

But hey, as long as you had fun

just "Googled" Scramble rules, came across a set from the Michigan Womens Golf Assoc. they had published their own local rules for a scramble. they had it set to promote speed of play to allow short putts to be hit before long ones and use continuous putting. So it looks to me that it is a local rule established by each tournament committee. Probably on that rules sheet that they hand out at tourneys that no one ever reads