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| | FANTASY GOLF CHALLENGE 2026
The 2026 Fantasy Golf Challenge is a golf pool where you try to pick the winner each week. You get to choose 2 players each week which increases your chances of picking the winner.
You collect the amount of winnings that both of your picks earn (combined). If one of your picks misses the cut, you collect $0.00 for that pick. If one of your picks win the tournament you earn the 1st place prize money. For example, say one of your picks is McIlroy and the other is Morikawa and they finish 8th and 3rd place which earns them $125,000 and $425,000, respectively. . . you then earn $550,000 for that week.
The goal is to collect the most $ for:
1) Each quarter (5 total)
- 6 weeks per quarter
- # of payout places depends on # of players that sign up (up to 5 total places)
2) Overall season (5 quarters combined)
- # of payout places depends on # of players that sign up (up to 6 total places)
3) The 4 majors, the Players Championship and the Genesis Invitational are SKINS tournaments (6 total) where you can win cash by picking the winner
- If no one picks winner of SKIN tournament, pot carries over to next major (next major is now worth 2x).
- If there is no winner for the last major (British Open), the skin will carry over to the 1st week of the playoffs (with no additional skin beyond the one(s) being carried over) and will continue each week thereafter until there is a winner.
- If more than one team picks the winner of a SKIN tournament, the tiebreaker will be the earnings of the other (2nd) player picked for that SKIN tournament for each team. If more than one team is tied after the tiebreaker, they will split the SKIN equally. For example, let’s assume 15 people select the winner, Xander Schauffele, for a SKIN tournament. After Schauffele, the next highest finisher that someone selected is Matsuyama who finishes T7 with 2 of the original 15 picking him. Thus, those 2 teams would split the skin equally.
- A team that does not make its picks (and must use default picks) for a SKIN tournament is not eligible to win that SKIN tourney although they will still receive the earnings of their default picks in the standings.
PICK DEADLINE. Picks are due by 12:00 a.m. midnight Thursday night (Friday morning) so for most tournaments you will see all of Thursday’s first round results before making your pick. On occasion, rain delays will force picks to be made prior to all first round results being posted. On very rare occasions where most or all of the first round is delayed until Friday, the commissioner may at his discretion choose to push the deadline back until sometime Friday morning. Note the first tourney of the season (Farmer’s Insurance Open) is from Wednesday - Saturday so picks are due by 12:00 a.m. midnight Wednesday night (Thursday morning) for this tourney only.
All picks will be entered and tracked via our league website located at following link . . . http://www.fglweb.com/fglpool01.php?ifid=949 The password is “putts” but you will need to register your team if you are a 1st time player to the league.
DEFAULT PICKS. If you forget to make your picks in a given week, you will be given the 21st and 22nd place finishers (or the next closest place finisher following 21st and 22nd in case of a tie) at the end of the 1st round (assuming you haven’t already used them). In the case of a tie of more than 2 players, you will be given the player with the earliest last name (alphabetically speaking). For example, if 4 players are tied for 19th at -4 and Homa, Day, Finau and Spieth are tied for tied for 23rd at -3 after round 1, your picks for that week would be Day and Finau.
YOU MAY ONLY PICK A GOLFER ONCE DURING THE SEASON. For example, if you pick Cantlay during the Masters, you cannot use him the rest of the season.
ALSO NOTE THE PURSE FOR EACH TOURNAMENT IS DIFFERENT EACH WEEK. For example, the purse for the Players Championship was $25 million in 2025 while the purse for the Mexico Open was only $7 million 2025. New in 2026, the PGA Tour Championship, played in late August, has a massive $40 million purse, with the winner taking home $10 million. Make sure to take that into consideration when making your picks each week as there are a lot of different strategies that can be employed in determining when and when not to use a player.
Note the separate overall FedEx Cup bonus pool of $100 million, distributed across the playoffs, is not a part of this Fantasy Golf Challenge and any amounts paid under that bonus pool is not included in player earnings for purposes of this Challenge.
THE ENTRY FEE IS $160.00 (which includes website fee) by cash, check, Zelle or Paypal and you can enter as many times as you would like. Payment is due by no later than March 1 and can be made using one of the following 3 options:
1) Paypal to mbillly@yahoo.com (note 3 l’s) . . . this is the preferred option
2) Zelle to chris.vohnout@gmail.com or (949)683-5701
3) Check payable to Chris Vohnout to the following address:
1816 Sheridan Way
San Marcos, CA 92078
If payment is not received by March 1, the entrant will be eliminated from the pool. This policy is not meant to be unfair, simply to ensure payment from each player in a timely manner. The entry fee will be allocated to the payouts as follows:
Q1 10.5%
Q2 10.5%
Q3 10.5%
Q4 10.5%
Q5 10.5%
Skins 16.0% (2.667% per Skin)
Overall 31.5%
IN-TOURNEY WITHDRAWALS/DISQUALIFICATIONS. If a team picks a player who withdraws, is disqualified, or is unable to finish a tournament for any reason, that team will collect the amount of winnings that player earns prior to his withdrawal/ disqualification for that tourney (likely $0). If a team is given a default pick (as defined in the rules) and that player subsequently withdraws, is disqualified, or is unable to finish a tournament for any reason, that team will collect the amount of winnings that player earns prior to his withdrawal/disqualification for that tourney (likely $0).
TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE. The first tournament of each season will be the Farmers Insurance Open the last weekend of January with the Challenge concluding with the Tour Championship each year. We will not be playing the Zurich Classic and will instead use this as a bye week for all teams. The tournament schedule by quarter along with purses for each tourney is included below:
Q1 ‘26
DATE TOURNAMENT PURSE
Jan 29-Feb 1 Farmers Insurance Open
TBD
‘25 Purse = $9,300,000
Feb 5-8 WM Phoenix Open
TBD
‘25 Purse = $9,200,000
Feb 12-15 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
TBD
Minimum $20,000,000
Feb 19-22 The Genesis Invitational
TBD
Minimum $20,000,000
Feb 26-Mar 1 Cognizant Classic
TBD
‘25 Purse = $9,200,000
Mar 5-8 Arnold Palmer Invitational
TBD
Minimum $20,000,000
Q2 ‘26
DATE TOURNAMENT PURSE
Mar 12-15 THE PLAYERS Championship
TBD
‘25 Purse = $25,000,000
Mar 19-22 Valspar Championship
TBD
‘25 Purse = $8,700,000
Mar 26-29 Texas Children's Houston Open
TBD
‘25 Purse = $9,500,000
Apr 2-5 Valero Texas Open
TBD
‘25 Purse = $9,500,000
Apr 9-12 The Masters
TBD
‘25 Purse = $21,000,000
Apr 16-19 RBC Heritage
TBD
Minimum $20,000,000
Q3 ‘26
DATE TOURNAMENT PURSE
Apr 30-May 3 Miami Championship TBD
Minimum $20,000,000
May 7-10 Truist Championship
TBD
Minimum $20,000,000
May 14-17 PGA Championship
TBD
‘25 Purse = $19,000,000
May 21-24 The CJ Cup Byron Nelson
TBD
‘25 Purse = $9,900,000
May 28-31 Charles Schwab Challenge
TBD
‘25 Purse = $9,500,000
Jun 4-7 The Memorial Tournament
TBD
Minimum $20,000,000
Q4 ‘26
DATE TOURNAMENT PURSE
Jun 11-14 RBC Canadian Open
TBD
‘25 Purse = $9,800,000
Jun 18-21 U.S. Open Championship
TBD
‘25 Purse = $21,500,000
Jun 25-28 Travelers Championship
TBD
Minimum $20,000,000
Jul 2-5 John Deere Classic
TBD
‘25 Purse = $8,400,000
Jul 9-12 Genesis Scottish Open
TBD
‘25 Purse = $9,000,000
Jul 16-19 The Open Championship
TBD
‘25 Purse = $17,000,000
Q5 ‘26
DATE TOURNAMENT PURSE
Jul 23-26 3M Open
TBD
‘25 Purse = $8,400,000
Jul 30-Aug 2 Rocket Mortgage Classic
TBD
‘25 Purse = $9,600,000
Aug 6-9 Wyndham Championship
TBD
‘25 Purse = $8,200,000
Aug 13-16 FedEx St. Jude Championship
TBD
‘25 Purse = $20,000,000
Aug 20-23 BMW Championship
TBD
‘25 Purse = $20,000,000
Aug 27-30 Tour Championship
$40,000,000
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