Overview
Hello everyone, and welcome to the first annual TGV PRO/AM Cup. The goal of this event is to provide a competitive tournament within a fun H2H atmosphere. The requirements are flexible, giving everyone a fair opportunity to compete for the top prize. Events will use a mixture of Amateur and Pro stlye settings. Some events will be the strict defaults, but many will be a custom grouping. The idea is to provide unique gameplay styles that still bring holing out into play.


Schedule
The league consists of a 14 week schedule.
  • 12 weeks of regular season.
  • 2 weeks of playoffs

The league is every Wednesday Night at 9 pm EDT. (Yes, EDT. We are currently in daylight savings time in the US)
  • First event is Wednesday April 24
  • Last regular season event is Wednesday July 10
  • Playoffs start July 17
  • Final playoff week is July 24

Each regular season league event is 36 holes.
  • Two 18 hole rounds of Stroke Simultaneous play
  • First round is random pairings
  • Second round paired by scores

Each playoff league event is 54 holes
  • Three 18 hole rounds of Stroke Simultaneous play
  • All rounds paired by scores (See rules below for starting playoff scores)



Courses
For the 12 regular season events, we will be using the 20 Standard Edition courses and 4 courses from the Historic Edition.
  • The 4 HE courses will be contained to 2 of the regular season events.
  • The use of these HE courses will be announced the week of the event so that users know before hand.

The 2 playoff weeks will use 6 Standard Edition courses that were used during the regular season.


Availability
This event is open to any member of The Games Village or The Gaming Tailgate forum websites. You do not have to be a member of the country club to participate in this event. Just a member of the website.


Rules
Each event will award points based on how you finish.
  • You will receive 2 points for every event participant that you beat.
  • You will receive 1 point for every event participant that you tie.
  • The winner of the event will receive a 9 point bonus.
  • Second place will receive a 5 point bonus.
  • Third place will receive a 1 point bonus.
  • Tied top positions will split bonus points. (3 way tie for first takes 15 bonus points and divides by 3)

Regular Season standings uses your top 6 point finishes.
  • You can compete in 6 of the 12 events to get a full score.
  • If you compete in more than 6, your worst point finishes will be dropped from your total score.
  • Any user that does not have 6 regular season events played will not be eligible for playoffs and will be dropped from the standings.

Regular season standings will give each user a starting score for playoffs.
  • First place starts playoffs at even par
  • 0.15 strokes is added to each user down the standings (3rd place is at 0.3, 4th is at 0.45, and so on)

There is no points structure for the playoffs, it is a stroke format.
  • The best score over the 2 weeks of 6 playoff rounds (including any starting penalty from regular season standings) will be crowned the champion.
  • All users that complete playoffs (except the champion) will be eligible for the participant prize.



Prizes
1st place
  • 2 EA Games of your choosing. (A list will be provided closer to the playoffs)
  • If I happen to win the tournament (unlikely, I suck these days), this prize will go to the second place finisher.

Participant Prize
  • 1 EA Game of your choosing
  • This prize will go t one randomly selected participant that qualifies for and completes the playoffs.