First and foremost, by participating in the 2022 season, all players agree that the season may be declared null and void if Bud considers cancellations and tournament alterations too difficult to handle and keep the league continuing.
Each Fantasy Owner picks a golfer for the current weekend's PGA tournament(s).
For the 4 Majors, THE PLAYERS Championship, the WGC-Dell Match Play Championship, and the St. Jude Invitational & BMW Championship (our last two events) each owner makes two picks.
There is a tournament each weekend for 33 weeks ending with The BMW Championship. There will be 2 tournaments on 4 weekends. With the 8 double picks, the total number of picks becomes 45.
Although the Zurich Classic of New Orleans will be played as pairs, only one pick is made and otherwise treated normally.
The St. Jude Invitational and BMW Championship are FedEx Cup events with progressively reduced fields due to the FedEx Cup point system.
FedEx Cup Bonus money will NOT be used in the league.
Due to changes made in 2019 where ALL prize money awarded for the Tour Championship is FedEx Cup Bonus money, there will be no picks for that event, but instead two picks for the BMW Championship which ends the league season.
The amount of money that golfer earns for the tournament is added to your total yearly "money winnings".
If a golfer plays, he cannot be used again. If a golfer does not qualify or withdraws, you earn no winnings, and that golfer cannot be used again.
Only if your golfer doesn't play at all (doesn't tee off) can he be reused as a pick later.
Each week's pick should be made before the listed start time of that weekend's tourney (usually Thursday). Your pick can always be changed (re-entered) before start.
The WGC-Matchplay starts on a Wednesday. Be sure to get your picks in for this on time as all golfers who play get paid.
Start time represents the deadline for submitting one's pick. This time can easily be shown for any/all tourneys by clicking on your team name from the recap page. Picks cannot be made after the deadline.
Once the tournament starts, no pick can be changed (even if that golfer hasn't started yet). (i.e. No late changes to replace a no-show pick).
Login is needed to identify yourself for making picks, and so you can view your pending picks. Login is remembered (if you wish) to avoid repeated logining on. Any Team could have multiple Owners each which has access to their Team.
You enter your pick using the web-based picker by clicking on the Make Pick link. You can choose to hide your pick, or even show something different if you wish. Of course, everyone's picks will show properly after tourney starts.
The season starts Thursday, January 6th, 2022 (2:30pm CST).
Contingent picks based on whether a golfer plays or not are not permitted.
No late entries will be allowed. Once tournament actually starts, all picks are locked in (including any no-pick). However, I tend to be lenient to sob stories.
Tentative future picks can be supplied and changed. It is encouraged that you make picks ahead of time, because you may forget, and you can always change your pick up to start time.
Payoffs are made at the rate of $1 by every other owner for each ($10,000 * number of owners) earned by all your golfers winnings.
There will be a maximum loss limit of $200. Any losses exceeding that will be prorated from owners winning money.
Final amounts will be rounded off to the nearest dollar.
Losers payments are expected promptly (end of August) so that winners can be paid and settlement concluded. I can pay or be paid from PayPal (via stowe@budmans.com or 515-975-2284). Venmo, Zelle, and even Facebook support electronic funds transfers too. Try them!
Picks that did not play will be indicated by parenthesis. These can be reused later.