We feel at Galla Creek that every team in a flight should have the right to tie the leader without being bumped from the flight.
If you are down 3 strokes after day 1, you have the opportunity to make up the 3 strokes plus whatever the bump number is.
For example, 78 is leading the flight after day 1. Your team shot 81. You are down 3 strokes in the flight. The bump number is 4. You have the opportunity to shoot 3 strokes better on day 2 than the leader (that is the number of strokes you were down on day 1) plus the bump number of 4 so you can shoot a 71 without getting bumped.
Scoring example
Team Day 1 Day 2 Total
Leader 78 74 152 Shot 4 better on day 2. Does not get bumped
You 81 71 152 Shot 3 better than the leaders Day 1 score plus the bump of 4. Not bumped
The Day 2 score of 71 is calculated off the leaders Day 1 score 78-3 (number of strokes behind) -4 (bump number) = 71
The stroke improvement has to be figured off the leaders Day 1 score (NOT YOURS!) because you will never be able to catch the leader if you figure the stroke improvement off your Day 1 score.
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For example, if the day 2 improvement plus bump was figured off your score:
Leader 78 74 152 Shot 4 better. Not bumped
You 81 74 (7 better than your day1 score, 3 that you were down plus bump of 4=7)
Your total would only be 155. You STILL would be 3 strokes behind leader. Under this scenario if you shot 73 on Day 2 for a total of 154, you would be bumped to the next flight and STILL be 2 strokes behind the leader!
Some courses do it that way but at Galla Creek, we believe that every team in the flight should have the same opportunity to get to the best allowable total score without being bumped out of the flight. If not the teams behind in the flight might as well not play on Day 2 because if the leader gets to the bump number the other teams have no way of catching the leader without being bumped.
If you ever have any questions about how we do the bump rule, please do not hesitate to reach out to Brian. Thank you!
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