Basic Info

This year, the Matchplay Championship will consist of 2 or 3 divisions, depending on how many people sign up. A division will be capped at 16 participants. Your seed in the tournament will be decided by the World League Rankings released on Sunday, February 8th.

More detailed information will be posted soon.

Tournament Schedule

Wed, Feb 11, 3:30pm EST	Deadline for sign-up
Wed, Feb 11, after 3:30pm EST	First round matchups are posted
Sunday, February 15	All first round matchups completed
Wednesday, February 18	All second round matchups completed
Friday, February 20	All semifinal matchups completed
Saturday, February 21	Finals completed

The dates for completion for each round are a final deadline that matches must be completed by. Due to the schedule's nature, this tournament could be finished before February 21st.

Scheduling Matches
Once matches are posted in the forum, you are responsible for setting up a time when the match can be completed with your opponent before the rouond deadline. I will post matchups, a full bracket, and an area for you to schedule your match and post results when it is completed. Results should be reported as any match score in golf is: "Player_A beats Player_B, X&Y", where X is the number of holes up and Y is number of holes remaining. It is the winner's responsibility to post the match score in the forum and await their next matchup.

Playing Matches
Since each round is 18 holes, there are two ways matches can be played (due to the fact that free play only allows for a 9-hole match maximum).

1. Play the match for 50 cents in order to play all 18 holes at once under match play scoring.
   
2. Play the match for free, but only 9 holes at a time. If this option is chosen, you must play stroke play and keep track of the match score manually.

Things to keep in mind

• Use the head-to-head room on UTour to play your matches
  
• If you and your opponent are separated by more than 100 rating points, the lower rated person must set up the match. This must be done because:
  
  • UTour does not allow you to offer a matchplay game to an opponent 100 rating points or more under your rating
    
  • In stroke play, UTour forces you to offer a stroke to anyone over 100 rating points under your rating
    
  • If the lower ranked player sets up the match, these problems will be avoided
    
  
  

*NEW* Multiple Divisions

• The format of this year's Matchplay Championship is changed from an invitational to an open sign-up for everybody
  
• There will be up to 3 divisions of play with a cap of 16 players per division
  
• If more than 48 players sign up, the only division to expand beyond 16 players will be Division 3.
  

Example Table

Players	Divisions	Players/Division
16	1	16
24	2	12
32	2	16
36	3	12
42	3	14
48	3	16

Division	Season Pts for Winner	WLR Divisor
1	600	100
2	300	50
3	150	20

If a match is all square after 18 holes, does it go to "sudden death" or do we use the bonus score as the decider?

Sudden death will still be the tie-breaker if the match is all-square after 18 holes.

So if I cant contact the person that I am supposed to play, what happens. I am just curious due to the arrangement of this tourney. Thanks

if you have attempted to make contact with the person, and you havent gotten a reply by the deadline tomorrow, let me know by PM or post here and you will automatically be advanced to the next round.

I don't understand that if someone signed up for the tournament, they haven't checked the matchups yet!!

Andwilk, I did actually get ahold of them today. I thought the deadline was sunday, did I read that wrong? We are supposed to play sat. the 14th at 4pm eastern time. If that isnt going to be ok please let me know. Thanks

that will be fine. Good luck in your match!