A One-Person Captain's Choice is, as the name implies, a format in which the "team" consists of only one golfer - yet there are still multiple balls used for each stroke.
It works like this: Each golfer entered plays individual stroke play, but plays two balls per stroke. So Player A tees off with his first ball, then hits a second drive, too. He walks up the fairway and decides which of his drives is better. He picks up the weaker drive and moves that ball over to the position of the better drive. And then plays his second stroke, hitting both balls again. And so on, until he holes out. A scramble, but rather than multiple golfers on a team each playing one ball, there is only one golfer playing multiple balls.
A One Person Captain's Choice tournament can get slow with every golfer playing two golf balls. To keep the pace of play moving, tournament directors sometimes set a maximum per-hole score of bogey. Another way to try to keep the pace up is to ask each golfer to hit only one drive if the first drive they hit is a good one.
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