Does Pingolf Require Shared Machines?

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We’re going to run a simple weeknight Pingolf event. Everyone plays five holes, and top four will play in a single-game playoff.

My question is if the players need to play the same five machines.

We have eight available to us. My idea is that we have a target score for all eight machines, and then we give the players a choice to play machines they think they can do well at. If I can allow all eight machines to be played (as opposed to five) it’ll also allow qualifying to move more quickly. It also hedges against a machine going down. If it does, too bad; go play something else.

I’m also toying around with the idea of a “mulligan”. Play six machines and we’ll drop your worst golf score.

Has anyone else done anything like this? Is there any problem with any of the above from an IFPA perspective?

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Cannot confirm but I wouldn’t think this would be an issue. It’s basically Herb style with a bank of games using Pingolf for scoring instead. Sounds legit to me.

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Break the player field into 2 halves (groups), and then have each group of field play the same 4 of the 8 pins. Have the top X from each group advance to finals.

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No problem as long as all the machines are at the same location.

We would only have a problem if it was something like this:

Course A → Joe’s Bar in Pittsburgh, PA
Course B → Phil’s Bar in Des Moines, IA
Course C → Jack’s Bar in Duluth, MN
Course D → Mike’s Bar in Los Angeles, CA
etc.

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