PGA Single Golf Tournament Rules
Scoring
The scoring can be handled multiple ways. Leaderboards can have multiple scoring options. Each pool admin decides what is in play for their pool.-
TO PAR Scoring
Add golfers scores relative to par. Sorted by team with best cumulative score. Scores update live throughout the tournament. -
$$ Earnings Scoring
Add golfers money earnings for the tournament. Projected earnings will update live throughout the tournament. -
Daily Bests Scoring
Use the best n golfers score from each day. For example, if everyone picks 6 golfers, you could choose to only count the best 4 scores from each day. Scores update live throughout the tournament. -
Round by Round Scoring
Add golfers scores relative to par for a single round. Sorted by team with best cumulative score for the individual round .
Official & Projected Earnings
- Official earnings are typically posted within a few hours of tournament completion.
- Golfers that miss the cut receive $0 for official earnings, by default. This matches official PGA Tour earnings. Some tournaments like the Masters award cut golfers $10,000 or some amount of unofficial money. This is not considered official money, however, and therefore is not included in projected earnings or official earnings posted for your golf pool.
- Projected earnings update live based on each players leaderboard position.
- Projected earnings calculated following the standard PGA Tour Payout Percentages formula.
- Projected earnings are not guaranteed to match official earnings.
- Amateurs are not awarded projected or official earnings
Tiebreakers
It is up to each pool admin to handle any tiebreaker and decide what tiebreakers are in play for your pool.If your pool uses an online picksheet, by default everyone is required to submit a guess at the winning golfer's final score, not including playoff holes. The pool admin can optionally exclude this from the picksheet if they don't want to use the systematic tiebreaker.
If more is needed to break the tie, the pool admin has final say.
When tied, the numeric position in the standings will remain the same, and the pool admin decides which person wins the tie (if any).
Ties will be sorted on the leaderboard based on the following criteria:
- Closest guess to winning golfer's score. Doesn't matter if higher or lower. Pool admin can choose not to require this.
- Scorecard playoff winner. For example, if I have Tiger at -5 and Rory at -3, and you have Bubba at -4 and Phil at -4, then we both have -8 but I win because my best is better than your best. Keep matching best to best until the tie is broken. This does not include playoff holes. This is an automatic secondary sort on your leaderboard, and again it is up to the pool admin to decide if this will be used to help break a tie.
Cut Golfers & Withdrawn Golfers Scores
After the cut is determined you’ll notice that cut golfers will get assigned a score automatically for rounds 3 and 4. Withdrawn golfers (or anyone that doesn't finish all 4 rounds) will get assigned a score automatically for any rounds not finished. The score for each unfinished round will be 80, the Highest Carded Round for that round, or a specific stroke penalty like Even/+1/+2/etc., depending on your pool's selection.The highest carded round will fluctuate throughout the day until all rounds are completed for that day. Here's more details: Highest Carded Round - Explained.
For money earnings scoring, golfers will get $0 if they miss the cut.