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| SOUTHWEST GOLF LEAGUE (established 1998) BRIEF OVERVIEW Entry fee is $100. Each participant selects a designated number of players each week, ranging from one to four players, depending on the event or events being taking place that week. The main strategy of the league is that participants may only choose a player one time for the league season which begins in January with the Sony Open and concludes with the Tour Championship. Also, the defending champion of an event may not be selected for that event or any event that same week when two events are played on the same week. Scoring is based on the money earned by the selections made by a participant each week. At the end of the season, the participant who earns the most money with their selections is declared the winner. Amateurs entered in an event should not be selected, as they earn no money ENTRY The $100 2024 entry fee should go to Apple Pay dwgolfpro@icloud,com or PayPal-dwgolf@pga.com or send a check payable to Dan Wickman 6432 S Birch Circle Centennial, CO 80121. A person may enter more than one team. QUESTIONS Questions or issues with the league should be directed to the email dwickmanpga@gmail.com or by calling 425-877-9393 SELECTING PLAYERS EACH WEEK . Participants select a designated number of players for each week for each team they have entered in the league, either one, two or three players, depending on the type of event(s) the PGA Tour is hosting each week. The player(s) that are selected by a participant for each week are called starters. For a regular PGA Tour event, a participant may select one starter. For the Players Championship and the FedEx Cup Playoff events, including the Tour Championship, a participant may select two starters. For a major championship a participant may select three starters. Players are selected on the fglweb.com website under the Southwest Golf League. Players may be selected as far in advance as a participant wishes, however they may not be selected any later than on the hour nearest to the first scheduled tee-time for that week’s event earliest scheduled event, minus 15 minutes. If the first tee-time for an event is either changed, delayed, or not posted soon enough in order to accurately determine the first scheduled tee-time, the Southwest Golf League may choose to use 7AM tournament local time at the event venue as the deadline or may move the deadline to correspond to the rescheduled first tee-time, if that information is readily available. For participants who may have computer or website issues on a given week or any trouble making their selections, selections may also be emailed to dwickmanpga@gmail.com or phoned or texted to 425-877-9393, but must arrive either on or before the deadline. If starting times are delayed and the fglweb site is not updated, initial or updated selections may still be emailed. In order to avoid any confusion, emailed selections will supersede anything done online unless a second email is sent cancelling the initial email’s selection request. The time a first score is posted shall be defined as 15 minutes after the first actual tee-time as listed on-line on pgatour.com. TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP PAYOUT Since their is no actual purse specific to this event, the event will be paid out based on the final FedEx Cup payout at a rate of 20% of the actual money earned by each player at the end of the event. So for example, if the player who played in the Tour Championship were to earn $18,000,000 for their final standing in the FedEx Cup, then any participant who selected that player for the Tour Championship would earn $3,600,000 towards their yearly earnings in the Southwest Golf League. No winnings are earned for players who fail to play in the event despite that they may have earned money based on their final FedEx Cup standing, since they are not able to be selected that week and are not actually playing in the Tour Championship CAN’T USE ‘EM TWICE IMPORTANT: Once a participant chooses a player as a starter and that player competes in the event for which they were selected, that player may not be selected again by that participant in any other event for the remainder of the season. PICKING BACK-UPS Each participant may also pick up to one back-up player each week. This back-up player is called a non-starter. A non-starter selected on a given week immediately becomes a starter if any of the starters a participant has selected for that same week fails to tee off in the first round on an event – a player is to have considered started or tee-off in an event if they record a score for any hole, even if it is just one hole. Non-starter selections do not count as starters and may be chosen later in the year, unless they actually become a starter for an event in which they were originally selected as a non-starter. NO DEFENDING CHAMPIONS A participant may not select the defending champion in any event for that event or any event occurring that same week, if it is a multiple event week. FAILING TO PICK Participants who fail to select a valid player(s) for an event will automatically be given a selection(s). This is also referred to as a default selection. This automatic selection(s) will be the player(s) that is nearest to the bottom of the fglweb.com money list, beginning at spot #44 in money earnings year-to-date, prior the commencement of that week’s event(s), that has not already been used as a starter by that participant earlier in the year, is not the defending champion for any event that week, and is playing in that event that week. In the case of a tie, the fglweb site will select the player that was ahead on the money list the previous week(s). If a participant has no valid selections for an event, because they have already selected all players that are playing in that event in previous events, that participant shall be allowed no selections for that event. In the event of a tie on the fglweb money list, it should revert to the 44th listed player on the money fglweb money list, regardless of ties. SELECTING PLAYERS WHO DO NOT PLAY IN AN EVENT In the event a participant selects a player(s) and also back-up selection in where all do not play in that designated event, they will no longer be allotted any replacement selections. SELECTING A PLAYER THAT WITHDRAWS If a participant selects a player for an event and they tee-off and play even one hole in that event, they are deemed to have played in that event and that player will remain the participant’s selection. If a player withdraws from an event without completing any hole in an event, they shall be replaced by that participant’s back-up selection. SCORING Season scoring is based on the money that participants’ starters earn playing in events in which they are selected. Each week the money that a participant’s starter(s) earn is added to that participant’s cumulative money earnings for the entire season. MUTIPLE EVENT WEEKS On weeks when more than one official Southwest Golf League designated PGA Tour event is being played, each participant will still be able to make the same number of selections that is required for each event, as indicated on the website. However, it will not matter in which event a player participates. Money earned by the players selected that week will be fully credited to the participants who selected them as starters, regardless in which PGA Tour event the player participants. In other words, the fglweb.com website only knows that a player earned a particular amount of money on a given week and will credit that money earned accordingly to the participants who selected that player as a starter for that week. What this means is that if two events are held on the same week, a participant may be required to choose as many as two or three starters and it will not matter in which event those starters actually play. However, the maximum number of starters on any week will be three. DISPUTES Occasionally participants have disputes about their selections, claiming they have made picks or that the computer has made a mistake. These disputes will only be considered by the Southwest Golf League two-person committee if an email is sent to dwickmanpga@gmail.com or a text to 425-877-9393, prior to the scheduled commencement of an event. Otherwise, once an event has commenced, the selections are final for that week. If a participant has failed to select or select correctly, the default selection(s) will be their selection(s). In addition, it should be noted that any error message received by a participant when making selections will render all selections invalid for that week and a participant must reselect all players in order to have valid selections. This is true regardless of what caused the error or whether a participant feels the error was valid or not. If a participant ignores the error, it will cause them to have no selections that week and they will receive the default selections for that week as if they have failed to select any players, regardless of whether any of their selections may have been valid when the error occurred. Each participant, assuming they have entered a valid email address in the fglweb.com website and their email is functioning, will receive an email confirming their selections and the week they have selected, as long as they have made selections. It is the participant’s responsibility to confirm the information of the email is accurate and regardless of their intentions, unless dwgolfpro@icloud,com is notified of a problem before the scheduled commencement of an event, the selections will be final. If a participant notices a problem on the confirmation email or is having any problem making selections or the proper number of selections on a given week per the rules indicated above, they should reselect before the scheduled commencement of an event in order to correct the error or submit their selections via email prior to the deadline. Once an email is sent with selection for dwgolfpro@icloud,com, all selections made online for that participant for that week will be overridden by the emailed selections. If any emailed selections are invalid, the default selection rule will go into effect. PAYOUT The 2024 payout will be based on number of entries. The website that hosts the league also has a maintenance fee that is deducted from the payout. LATE ENTIRES Participants are not officially entered until they have paid their entry fee. Payment and selections may be made up until the Farmers Open has commenced, but not received or postmarked prior to that event, a participant will be dropped from the league. New participants may also enter after the season has commenced. They will also be given the same player selections as the participant who is in last place for every event that they have missed. No new participants may enter after the The Farmers has commenced. |
