Has anyone ever tried doing a 3 x 24 hole format using courses other than a 24-hole course? With a 24-hole (or 18 + 6 temps), you can just start everyone on their respective hole, finish, go to lunch, come back and do it again (maybe shooting from different teepads or switching pin positions). But what about on other courses? Since the majority of courses are 18-holes, and most tournaments traditionally use two 18-hole courses, is there a way to use a 3 x 24 format with everyone playing each hole twice? Even better would be everyone within the same division playing the same holes each round, but I am not sure that is possible. Plus, it seems like the courses would have to be on the same property (no driving between the two). Perhaps if the courses were broken into 3 12-hole mini-courses you could have some divisions play 2 of the 12 each round. It just seems difficult to say "Play 1-12, then 25-36, and after lunch play 13-24 then 1-12 again." I guess it could work...has anyone tried?

A primary complication is that it would be extremely lucky that the routing on the courses would have the end of 6 and/or 12 near 1 or end of 12 or 18 near the start of 6, etc to make the flow work out without major traffic issues. We've done it where players did 27 in a day where it was a shotgun start. Everyone from a specific division started either on the front nine or back nine. Once they played all 18, they contimued playing and just played only the front or back nine depending on where they started. So, after 18 holes, if you had started on hole 8, you would be back there again and play 8, 9, then 1-7 to finish. If you started on 15, your last 9 holes would be 15-18, then 10-14. it worked out just fine but it's good to have a "traffic cop" at 18 and 9 to remind people where to go on that last nine. It also was important that the course was designed with two 9-hole loops.

Seems like it would be the setup for an amusing fiasco, but amusing only to someone reading about it afterwards. How would that work better for anyone than just playing both courses twice? If the idea is to do this across two days and finish earlier on Sunday, you could just play three rounds of 18 on Saturday.