The Season

END OF SEASON (SEPTEMBER or OCTOBER):

Ryder Cup

27 hole event held at Deerfield Golf & CC

Teams formed by winning the following bids

in order until team is made

  • Top Gross finisher in each major earns a bid (4) spots available max.
  • Two Top three gross finishes in the four majors.
  • Three Top five gross finishes in the four majors.
  • One spot rewarded to a golfer that attended all four majors and average finish was in top 10 overall.
  • All remaining spots will be rewarded to tour members that attended at least three of the four majors, and had the best average gross finish.

Team rankings (#1 golfer – #12 golfer) are determined by golfer’s handicap

  • North 9: Best-Ball – Both teammates tee off and take the best shot, both then take next shot from that ball. This process is repeated until holed out. This is done for all 9 holes.

Pairings

Police 1 & 12 v Fire 1 & 12 Police 2 & 11 v Fire 2 & 11Police 3 & 10 v Fire 3 & 10
Police 4 & 9 v Fire 4 & 9Police 5 & 8 v Fire 5 & 8Police 6 & 7 v Fire 6 & 7

  • South 9: Alternate Shot – higher ranked golfer tees off first on hole #1, from there it is alternating shot until holed out. Hole #2 the lower ranked golfer on your team tees off, from there it is alternating shot until holed out. Hole #3 is back to higher ranked golfer teeing off, and so on.

Pairings

Police 1 & 2 v Fire 1 & 2Police 3 & 4 v Fire 3 & 4Police 5 & 6 v Fire 5 & 6
Police 7 & 8 v Fire 7 & 8Police 9 & 10 v Fire 9 & 10Police 11 & 12 v Fire 11 & 12

  • East 9: Singles – head to head, hole for hole

Pairings

1 v 12 v 23 v 34 v 45 v 56 v 6
7 v 78 v 89 v 910 v 1011 v 1112 v 12

Scoring

One point is earn for every pairing or singles match won.

Half points are earned when your pairing or singles match ends in a tie.

There are a total of 24 points up for grabs. First to 12.5 points wins the Ryder Cup. Players are more than welcome to finish out their holes once a match has already been decided, but those holes will not count towards scoring. You paid for them, you might as well finish them!

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