Season Long Match Play Tournament – how it works.

1. Sign up with Gerald in the pro shop. (That will give us a list of entrants)
2. Play a “seeding” round any time between April 1^st and April 30^th. Simply let Gerald know you are playing your seeding round for the Match Play tournament, and he will give you an official scorecard.
   1. You must declare this before the round, otherwise it will not count
3. Once seeding rounds have been played, we will create a bracket and post it on the board outside TCC. (For example if we have 32 players, they will be seeded 1-32, where 1 plays 32, 2 plays 31 and so on).
4. Once the bracket has been established, players are responsible for scheduling their own matches – we will play one round per month. For example, the first round matches will be played in May, second round in June, third in July etc.
   1. Players are responsible for scheduling their own matches within the allotted month. Gerald will provide official scorecards for matches – simply let him know you are playing a match.
   2. This is a net event.
   3. This is a knockout tournament.
5. We will have a special event for the grand finale, where spectators will be invited to watch and support the last golfers standing.

Match Play Format Explained

A round in match play golf will see two golfers competing head to head against each other and not against the rest of the field. Rather than trying to post the lowest score for the round golfers are here trying to win (or not lose) more holes than their opponent.

Each golfer hits his own ball throughout the round and after each hole, scores of both golfers for the hole are compared. The golfer with the lowest score is said to have won that hole. If both scores are identical then no points (or holes won) are awarded for that hole.

A winner is declared during the round when his lead is such that his opponent can no longer close the gap mathematically. Or in other words, a winner is declared when his opponent can no longer tie or win the match even if he were to win all of the remaining holes.

At the start of the round, golfers declare their own handicaps and the difference between those is calculated (Gerald does all this for us! 😊). The golfer with the highest handicap will be awarded an extra stroke on as many holes as that calculated difference number.

For example, player A declares a handicap of 5 and player B declares a 10, for a difference of 5 (10 – 5 = 5). Player B will thus be given a free stroke on holes with difficulty ratings of 1 through 5. If player B were to need 5 strokes for the most difficult hole and player A to need 4 strokes on that same hole, the hole would be halved instead of seeing player B losing that hole thanks to his free stroke.