February
7
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MGA Individual Season Long Match Play 2022 for Monday, February 7, 2022
2022 MGA Season Long Match Play
MATCH PLAY SUMMARY
SEEDINGS
- Seedings based on 2021 MGA Player of the Year final standings
- Field Size Max 128 for Individual, 64 teams for 2-Man – signup via ForeTees
- Highest seeds will receive first-round byes
MATCH DATES (Please note each tournament has slightly different completion dates)
- Individual:
- First Round complete by April 30
- Round of 64 complete by June 30
- Round of 32 complete by July 31
- Round of 16 complete by August 31
- Round of 8 complete by September 30
- Semifinals complete by October 31
- Championship Match to be held concurrently with the 2-Man Championship and an MGA social event
RULES
- Single elimination.
- Matches to be played on PLAYERS course, Blue/White tees. If both teams decide to play on the TOUR course, then that is acceptable.
- Mark, lift clean and place in your own fairway.
- Handicapped at 100% of that day’s GHIN handicap.
- Play is net off low man in the match. The lower handicap receives zero strokes and other players receives the difference between the two handicaps.
- Use the GHIN “Course Handicap” tool along with GHIN ”Golfer Lookup” tool.
- If help is needed with the GHIN tools, see the Pro Shop for assistance.
- Match must be physically played. Match of scorecards is not acceptable. Head-to-head within the same 4some as part of a broader game is acceptable.
- After completion of your match, deliver a counter signed scorecard clearly indicating the winner of the match to the Pro Shop.
- To avoid any confusion, take a mobile phone picture of the signed scorecard for your records.
- Fee for each event will be $30 per player
- Suncoast Marketing Player of the Year point allocations and Purse distribution to be released at a later date
SCHEDULING
- Players to mutually agree and schedule match date & time.
- It is expected that all players will make a “good faith” effort to accommodate a mutually agreeable date and time.
- To avoid confusion, mutually agreed upon date and time and any cancelations and rescheduling thereof should be documented with an email.
- If players can’t otherwise agree, the default match date and time will the last Saturday of month @ 1:00 P.M.
- If a player doesn’t show for a documented mutually agreed date and time without canceling or the default date and time it will be considered a forfeit.
- Players to book their own tees times, including the default tee time.
- Championship Match date and time in November to be set by finalists; will be announced.
COMMUNICATION
- You are responsible for scheduling your own match.
- If you don’t otherwise have your opponent’s contact information, the default communication tool is the Foretees email system.
- Only if can’t connect with Foretees email, see the Pro Shop for assistance with communication.
- Once the brackets are posted, we will ask players to write an e-mail or phone number onto the board to help communication:
- How to send an e-mail using the Foretees Portal
- 5th tab along the top is a “Email” tool
- Select “Send Email”.
- Under “Recipients” click “+ Add Recipients”.
- Select “Find and add Members”.
- Type in members name to find
- Select correct member
- That name should appear on the “Recipients:” box.
- Select “Finished” with the “Select Members” Tool.
- The selected name should now appear in the “Recipients” Box in the body of the email.
- In the “Subject” box of the email type ”Match Scheduling for Individual (Team) Match Play”.
- In the “Message” identify yourself, include your offer as to date and time.
- For you convivence, you may want to include your email address and your cell #.
- The recipient will receive an email from AMemberOfYourClub@foretees.com with the “Subject” as per above.
- The recipient can reply to that email.
- Using the Foretees “Modern” view, follow all steps above except when you get to ”+ Select Recipients”, select the “Member” tab and type in as many letters as necessary to locate your opponent. Double Click that name.
MATCH PLAY RULES REMINDERS
- Match play scores are postable.
- If out of a hole, post your “most likely score” for that hole.
- For holes not physically played as the outcome of the match is already determined, post “net par”. (par plus any strokes you get on the hole using your full handicap).
- The maximum score on any hole in computing the postable round score is “net double bogey. Anything higher then net double bogey should be adjusted.
- You may concede a stroke, concede a hole or concede a match.
- You may NOT concede an intentional violation of the Rules of Golf.
- Familiarize yourself with match play Rules on Disagreement (in match play you may not play a second ball seeking a later ruling).