Eclectic
The objective here is to get your lowest score on each individual hole on the course, over a number of rounds, played in the timeframe decided by the competitions secretary / organiser.
It is effectively a multi-round personal best-ball competition.
The game typically runs for a period of a month or more, to give the majority of the players a decent amount of time to get their rounds played, and scores in.
It works like this – a master spreadsheet is formed after the first eligible round and everyone’s hole by hole (starting) scores from that round are entered. Each round you play after that is a chance to improve your score on each hole.
For example, after the first round your scores were :
5 5 5 7 3 4 6 4 5 (44) 4 3 5 6 8 5 4 3 6 (44) Gross 88. This is your starting score.
You play your next round and score as follows :
5 6 5 6 4 5 5 4 4 (44) 5 4 5 6 5 6 6 2 7 (46) Gross 90, which, despite being a higher gross score, does in fact improve your Eclectic on holes 4, 7, 9, 14 and 17 so your Eclectic score now looks like this :
5 5 5 6 3 4 5 4 4 (41) 4 3 5 6 5 5 4 2 6 (40) Gross 81.
All players keep going, checking which holes they have improved on after each round and adjusting the overall Eclectic score as appropriate, until the end of the competition period.
Typically, the competition is for Best Gross, but could be worth having a Best Net prize as well so it keeps everyone involved throughout.