Alright Everyone, sign ups are at the end of this post!
I’ll be working closely with @PersistentlyOverPar again to assist with setting up the bracket via proximity for the early rounds.
I’m still kind of waffling between whether this should be single or double elimination so if anyone feels strongly one way or the other feel free to let your voice be heard. If we have enough participants to make the bracket large then that might just set us down the single elimination path. We might have to play it by ear.
As always I’m super excited to be involved in this even if I won’t be an active participant this year. I just love Match Play and keeping this event alive and the fact that there are so many of you who continue to play means the world to me.
This year the entry fee will be $20 venmo to me. The vast majority of these funds will go toward paying for the tee times at the Final and donations to the charity of the winners choice as has become custom.
Speaking of the Final - we still need a host. So, hit me up if you’d like to host.
As for handicaps, we will be running off 80% of cap this year.
Finally, if we end up with an odd number of participants for bracketing purposes those who proceeded further in the Match Play last year will get first dibs on byes if they sign back up.
I definitely want to lean toward double elimination for that reason if we can.
Ps. Please throw your zip code in the spread sheet, or DM me if that’s more comfortable for you. We need it to help set up the early bracket for keeping the matches close by.
As far as a percentage of a handicap, that’s one thing to sort out. Separately from that, could one thing we do is put in a top end cap on the handicap? So if your handicap is 18 or higher, you just get one stroke a hole. No multi-stroke holes if you’re a 21 or 23 handicap playing against a 2-3 cap.
I think using a percentage is more fair for matchplay. In my mind it basically just removes a little bit of the effect of double or triple bogeys. Theres a pretty good argument that making double bogey or worse should get you extra strokes for stroke play, but not extra holes for match play since the outcome is binary.
Im a 12.6 so Id like to think pretty impartial haha. FWIW most of the weekend games I play in its a disadvantage to me, but I still tend to think its more fair.
Doesnt really matter to me what the decision is, id leave it up to the more veteran players, but thats my two cents.
I will say as a 9 or 10 having to give two strokes on multiple holes in a match is a really tough scene and I’ve had to do that more than once. I can fully understand why people with lower caps than mine would be frustrated by a 100% cap rule when we’re headed into a single or double elimination format this year.
Let’s just do one tournament for single digit caps and one for everyone else. Then we can just play by the usga guidelines and nobody has to feel like they’re getting screwed by having to play by actual handicaps, or by starting in a hole after having several strokes shaved off of their index
I could go either way. I actually think it works out more often in match play than stroke play, but matches giving a ton of pops are toughhhhh.
Apologies if I missed this before but for stroke play events, was there discussion around penalties for net doubles or worse? I think that’d help balance the playing field a lot, especially in events where high caps have really low quotas.
I don’t think a compromise of 90% handicap would be bad to give it a run once. It cuts down on the number of holes a high handicapper could get multiple strokes on while not eliminating them completely.
