[Gus Mango Fish]

Having recently purchased an indoor golf simulator from electricspin.com, and having both a poker and a pool table in the office, I'm trying to think of a way to combine all 3 disciplines.

How about this for a start?

The structure is simple. Golf and pool in the afternoon, Poker in the evening.

Before the golf and poker starts, every player will be allocated with
15000 chips.


Golf
For every shot you take on the golf course, 200 chips will be deducted from your chip stack.

So, say for instance you shoot a decent round of 35 (we're only going to play 9 holes on a par 70 simulated course on Tiger Woods 2006). This means that 7000 will be deducted from your initial 15000 stack leaving you with 5000 to start a game of poker. If you shoot a not so nice 45, 9000 will be deducted leaving you with the slightly handicapped 6000.. If you shoot over 60, you better start praying for some pocket rockets to come your way...

Winner:
1000 chips for the player with the lowest golf score.
500 chips for the player with the second lowest golf score.

Eagle / Birdie Bonus:
Every eagle is 700 chips.
Every birdie is 300 chips.

Pin Seeker Bonus:
1000 chips to the player nearest the pin on a chosen par 3 hole. The ball has to finish on the green to count.

Longest Drive Bonus:
1000 chips to the player with the longest drive on a chosen hole.


Pool
Whilst one group of 2 or 3 is going round the golf course, the rest of the group will be playing the pool part of the challenge.

Every player plays each other once (this will mean 28 games of pool if there are 8 players!). We will play some of the games whilst others are playing the golf simulator. Hopefully by combining the two, so that the final round of golf finishes at about the same time as the final game of pool.

Each player will recieve the following bonus / penalty for the pool part of the challenge:

Win by
7-balls: 1000 chips to the winner / 1000 chips penalty for the loser
6-balls: 700 chips to the winner / 700 chips penalty for the loser
5-balls: 600 chips, etc
4-balls: 500 chips, etc
3-balls: 400 chips, etc
2-balls: 300 chips, etc
1-ball: 200 chips, etc
Win on black: 100 chips, etc

Every foul committed carries a penalty of 200 chips.


Poker
Once the golf and pool have finished, each player will start with the number of chips they've earned from those parts of the challenge.

Prizes will be split 65% / 35%, with the buy-in being around £30.


What does everyone think? Will this work? Is the golf and pool weighted correctly?