Pick Once Rules

 

Pick Once is open to any member of the three BESTballers groups, but limited to the first 100 players to submit their first choice.  Each week, you will submit one golfer as your player for that tournament, and you “earn” whatever your player earns for the week.  However, you are allowed to select a golfer only once per season.  Once you use Tiger, you can’t use him again.  This game is very similar to Cut Golf in this regard.

 

The rules:

 

  1. Your selection can be made (and changed) until 12:00am (midnight) eastern time on the day prior to the tournament.

 

  1. If you fail to make a selection in any week, you will earn no money for that week.  If you fail to make a selection for any four weeks, you are a goner.  I’m not going to waste computer space and my time tracking dead teams.

 

  1. If you make a duplicate selection, you will be counted as failing to make a selection.  I will attempt to notify you of your mistake if I can, but I can only do that if you don’t wait until the last minute to make your selection.  Selection history will be available on the leaderboard.

 

  1. Any PGA tour golfer is eligible, the eligible list is not restricted to the golfers yahoo has in the 3 groups (A, B, C). 

 

  1. If your golfer pulls out of the tournament or gets DQ’d, it still counts as your use of that player, UNLESS your guy pulls out AFTER the submission deadline and BEFORE the start of play.  You’ll end up with $0 for the week (you won’t be able to choose a replacement).  However, you will still be able to use the golfer in a later tournament.  You will not be counted as a failing to make a selection.

 

  1. If you golfer MC’s, you score $0 for that week.  You can’t use him again.

 

  1. The tournament yahoo is using for the week is the same tournament Pick Once will be using as the eligible tournament. 

 

The first week of play will be the first YAHOO! tournament, the Pebble Peach Pro-Am.  Play will conclude with THE TOUR Championship, held October 31-November 3 (this is also the end of YAHOO! Golf).   The way I count it, that’s 40 tournaments, so plan accordingly.

 

As far as figuring out who’s playing in which tournament, you’re on your own.  I recommend checking out www.pgatour.com/tournaments on Monday or Tuesday before the tournament begins.  The will have a link to a tournament page, which will in turn have a link to the field.  But check back often for WDs.  If your guy WDs prior to the tournament, you will score $0 for the week, AND you will have used that player’s eligibility for the game. 

 

Any questions, email me at alextris@yahoo.com.

 

Good luck.

Ed Crowder, Gators Kick Butt