Scoring & Tiebreakers

1. 1

   Pick 4 main golfers + 1 tiebreaker

   Every entry has 5 picks. Your 4 main picks determine your total score. The 5th - the tiebreaker pick - is held in reserve and only matters if you finish level on score with another entrant.

2. 2

   Total score = sum of all 4 main picks

   We add up each of your 4 picks' final score-to-par. Lower (more under par) is better.

   Example

   Picks finish at −6, −4, −2, and +1. Your total: −11.
3. 3

   Live during play - final at sign-off

   Scores update from the live PGA leaderboard while play is in progress and lock in once the tournament officially closes. Your rank can move every shot.

4. 4

   Lowest total wins

   The entry with the lowest combined score wins. Prize positions are set by the pool admin.

Most professional events make a cut after 36 holes - the field is reduced to the top performers and everyone else is sent home. SportSweeps offers the pool admin a choice of how to handle picks that miss the cut.

Withdrawals (WD): never carry a penalty. The golfer's last recorded score before withdrawing is used as-is. This protects you from unlucky injuries on day 3 that you couldn't have predicted.

Ties happen surprisingly often - especially in big pools. SportSweeps breaks them with a seven-step countback. Each step is a strict pass/fail: if step 1 doesn't separate two entries, we move to step 2, and so on.

1. 1

   Lowest total score (the obvious one)

   If your totals are different, you're not actually tied. This is just for completeness.

2. 2

   Best individual pick

   We compare each tied entry's single lowest-scoring golfer. The one with the deeper-negative star wins.

   Example

   A: −5, −3, −2, −2 (best = −5)
   B: −4, −4, −2, −2 (best = −4)
   A wins - their star outperformed B's star.
3. 3

   Second-best pick

   If step 2 also tied, compare the 2nd-lowest-scoring pick from each entry.

4. 4

   Third-best pick

   Same idea, comparing the 3rd-lowest pick.

5. 5

   Fourth (worst) pick

   Last of the four main picks. Beyond this point only the tiebreaker pick can separate you.

6. 6

   Did your tiebreaker pick make the cut?

   If one of you has an MC tiebreaker and the other has a cut-maker, the cut-maker wins. A working 5th pick beats a sleeping one every time.

7. 7

   Tiebreaker pick's score

   Last resort - the better-scoring tiebreaker pick wins. If you're still level after this, the entries share the position and split the prize equally (a "dead heat").