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Shamble:
Shamble is a format of golf competition of teams, comprised of two, three or four players (partners). Each player on the team plays his (or her) own ball throughout the round. All partners hit tee shots, they select which ball they prefer, and the players whose balls were not selected pick up their balls and move them to that location. Then (unlike Scramble), from the second shot all partners play their own golf balls from that location into the hole. This format is played as Stroke Play, and the lowest score (option: two or three lowest scores combined) of the partners is recorded as the team score for each hole.