[3] It is a popular form of the game, especially at club level and particularly in the United Kingdom, as it is still possible to record a competitive score despite having the occasional bad hole.
[3][5] Final scores may be modified for all players using the Competition Stableford Adjustment system.
[6] The number of points awarded per hole as specified by The R&A and the United States Golf Association are as follows:[7] This linear scoring version of Stableford is essentially the same as traditional stroke play where the maximum score for each hole is limited to a double bogey.
For example, in professional golf, the following scoring table has been used at the Barracuda Championship[8] on the PGA Tour.
[10] The modified Stableford system returned to the PGA Tour at the Reno-Tahoe Open in 2012.
On the European Tour, the ANZ Championship, which ran for three years from 2002, used the same modified Stableford scoring system as The International.
[14] The American Century Championship, a celebrity tournament played at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Stateline, Nevada, has used a modified Stableford scoring format since 2004.