you have to drink approximately 1 quart of scotch in order to enjoy it?
Push Out Order in Scotch Doubles?
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I’ve just always called it “screw your buddy”!
A push shot must be executed with a legal stroke. And since it was performed with a legal stroke by player A, player B is next at the table.
Same as when old timers play push out with 3 guys playing. It goes back if the guy ops out and then if he misses, they get the table. With this you push out to something so bad...they let you keep the table.
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It would take much more than a quart of scotch....
This makes more sense to me. If you push out, your turn at the table is not over until the incoming accepts the shot.
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Yes, but it does not end your turn.
It's apparent there are not unified rules. I've played a bunch of scotch doubles round robins with the same group of guys. Biggest problem we had was keeping track of who's break it was. We played if someone breaks out of turn the other team had option to shoot or push just as if they broke. We played winner breaks and team mates alternate. We have a ton of arguments over whose turn it was to break.
We played where you had to make contact with the cue ball for it to be considered a turn, period.
And on the start of a new game the non breaking team could put either player up.
We played where you had to make contact with the cue ball for it to be considered a turn, period.
And on the start of a new game the non breaking team could put either player up.
Well…
Randy Goettlicher says he was part of the invention of the format, and they were drinking scotch at the time iirc. I don’t dismiss his belief in this, but…
Scotch Foursome in golf, also known as foursome, has been in books for longer than Scotch Doubles in pool. I had cited an old golf book that showed this. It is the classic alternating shots format, and is often called Scotch Foursome today. Scotch Doubles bowling is also a thing, also an alternating throw game. It would be quite a thing if someone in the bowling industry invented their alternating shots format and called it Scotch with no connection to anything else. Maybe they were also drinking scotch.
Good God! I don't want to know the definition of Dutch Doubles then!
I remember my parents playing in a scotch doubles bowling league back in the '60s...
The format has been around for a long time in various sports.
They called it Dutch Doubles in the San Diego area. I have no idea why! I know they’re not the only area. Dutch might make sense if it’s specifically male/female or Jack & Jill.
Scotch Doubles is taking turns every other shot. This is just a recollection, but I THINK Dutch Doubles was every other inning instead of every other shot? Or every other frame in bowling instead of every other ball?
If you go across the country at any Dutch Doubles pool tournament, I’ve found that it’s alternating shots just like Scotch Doubles. As I alluded, the Jack/Jill partnership is sometimes a requisite for Dutch Doubles, but not everywhere.
It could be. I seem to remember, as a kid, Mom and Dad playing Dutch Doubles in a bowling league. I thought that was every other frame. I was old enough to be interested in it maybe they just did a variation of every other shot.
Yes in a 2 player game with players A and B. But when players A, B, C and D are involved it becomes a bit different, hence the question..
I seen no mention of players c or d. But if I were to extrapolate, I assume C and D are the opposing team.
Player A breaks and makes a ball. Player B then pushes out. The next at the table would be player A for that team.
Player C comes to the table and passes the shot. Since he did not shoot or attempt a stroke, player C will still be up the next time team 2 is at the table.
Usually when Scotch Doubles is played, both players can talk to each other. This is the case when both players together decide to accept or decline a push out. Therefore the player that had the option to accept will still be up in rotation. No shot was taken.