League Description

• Join as an individual or a 2-man scramble team

  • There are separate standings, events and payouts for the individuals and scramble teams

  • One person can compete both as an individual and as a member of a scramble team or on two different scramble teams, but if competing as a member of two different scramble teams, the player will have to create 2 separate logins to SGT (which will have separate stats & handicaps due to system limitations)

• League Details:

  • 12 weeks, each having an 18 hole, handicap adjusted stroke play tournament at a different GS Pro Course

    • Tees, greens, fairways, stimp, weather and other factors will change from week to week but will be the same for all participants in any given week

    • Putting will be set to “auto-putt fixed” and there will be one-putt and two-putt circles drawn on the greens at 10' and 40' radius circles - balls on the green outside those circles will be scored as a three-putt

    • There will be no mulligans allowed unless there is a technical error encountered with the simulator hardware/software

  • There will be 4 “majors” during the 12 week league schedule, one each to correspond with the 4 PGA season majors, and 8 regular tournaments, with the majors counting for double the points towards the league standings

  • League standings will be determined in accordance with SGT scoring and standards

• The league is hosted on the “Simulator Golf Tour” website - www.simulatorgolftour.com

  • All players must register an account on Simulator Golf Tour using The Pursuit Golf Tour link

  • The website will keep each players statistics and will track things like closest to the pin and tournament results

• Tournament Rounds can be played anytime throughout the week and must be booked by each player / team using our website or the Wix Bookings app

  • Individuals book an “League Round - Individual” to reserve an hour in the bay

  • Scramble teams book a “League Round - 2-Man Scramble” and get 2 hours in the bay

  • If 2 scramble teams or four individuals would like to play their round together, they can book a “4-Person League Round Session” to get 3 hours in the bay to complete their round

• Each “weekly” round will be open for at least 4 weeks to give all participants an opportunity to finish their rounds

   

Cost & Payouts

• Buy in for the league is $500 per person ($1,000 per scramble team) if paid up front, or 3 payments of $200 each, to be made at the beginning of the 1st, 5th and 9th weeks of the league season (this works out to $50/week, with a $100 discount offered for those who pay for the league in full up-front, and covers the costs of the bays, the SGT software and the prize pool)

• Optional Closest to the Pin cash game

  • Buy in is $120 per person, paid up front ($10 a week x 12 weeks).

  • All participants must commit to the full season CTP before start of the first week

  • There is one prize pool and one winner per CTP hole that spans across the individual and scramble team formats

  • Every week, one hole on the front and one on the back (usually the shortest hole) will be announced as the CTP holes.

  • 100% of the cash collected for the CTP competitions is paid out to the CTP winners at the conclusion of each event

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How Does The Handicap System Work?

• If a player has an established SGT handicap (from participating in a prior league or a league tracked in that system at another facility), that handicap will be used for this league unless it is determined by the Pursuit that using their on-course handicap is more appropriate

• If a player DOES NOT have an SGT handicap established, but keeps a handicap using the USGA handicap GHIN system or another on-course handicap tracking app

  • Individuals will be allocated 70% of their handicap for purposes of the league, rounded to the nearest integer (in general, indoor handicaps are 25-30% lower than outdoor handicaps)

  • Scramble teams will also be allocated 70% of their scramble team handicap for purposes of the league, rounded to the nearedst integer, which the USGA calculates as follows:

    • ((Lower Handicap * 65%) + (Higher Handicap * 35%))/2

    • Example:

      • Player 1 has a 12 handicap

      • Player 2 has an 18 handicap

      • ((12 * .65) + (18 * .35))/2 = 7.05

      • League Handicap = 7.05 * 70% = 4.94 = 5 handicap

• If a player has no handicap, they will be allocated 0 strokes for the first 4 weeks of the competition, and once they have completed their first 4 rounds, they will be assigned a handicap that will be retroactively applied to their first 4 weeks

• At any point during the league season, Pursuit management may determine that it is appropriate to adjust a player or team’s handicap in either direction based on their play in the league leading up to that point to keep the competition fair, and this adjustment may be applied RETROACTIVELY if circumstances dictate that is appropriate

  • For example, in the first iteration of our league, one team that had a handicap on the higher end of the spectrum posted scores that had them finishing in first place in all of the first 4 weeks. Their handicap was adjusted retroactively by 3 strokes, which better represented their actual skill level, and rather than finishing in first in all 4 weeks, they finished in 3rd, 2nd, 1st and 1st.

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Payouts / Prizes

• Weekly Prizes

  • CTP’s will be paid out weekly

• ​Final Prizes​

  • Winner for each league will receive:

    • A $200 Pursuit gift card

    • A $200 Amazon gift card

    • A custom wedge from Cleveland

    • A dozen custom Vice golf balls

Other Details

• There will be four weeks open at a time. Weeks 1, 2, 3 and 4 will be open for the first 4 weeks and can be played at any point during that time. After the first four weeks, weeks 1, 2, 3 and 4 will close and weeks 5-8 will open. That will continue for the duration of the league. Please note: there can be a commissioner exemption for extended time made for things like medical emergencies. Any and all exemptions will be communicated via email.

• There are 2 types of events with different point values. Most events will fall under the regular tour category. There will be 4 events denoted as majors with increased point values.