THE OPEN Elimination Pool

Our OPEN Elimination pool, another popular pool is now open for the 2012 season. Entries close July 18th at 6pm EST.

The top 60 ranked players from the tournament field will be selected and divided into 4 performance groups of 15 based on World Tour Rankings on the Monday of the week of the event. This is a contest of skill that requires contestants to make 1 selection from each group.

The Contest is stroke play, meaning the aggregate score for the contestant's four golfers will determine their position relative to the other contestants. The lower the contestant's aggregate score, the higher the ranking. The Contest does not take into consideration any tournament play after regulation play has completed.

If any of the golfers selected misses the cut, the contestant will be eliminated from the contest provided there are at least 3 contestants to have survived the cut. 

The top 3 contestants, ranked from lowest to highest aggregate score, at the end of official play will be the Final Prize winners. The Prize payouts, will be as follows:

* First Place 50%
* Second Place 30%
* Third Place 20%

Should there be less than 3 contestants to have survived the cut, the prize payouts will be
as follows:

2 Contestants to survive cut ... will compete for the 1st and 2nd prize payouts.
1 Contestant to survive cut ... will receive the first prize payout.

In these 2 instance those remaining contestants with 3 players to have survived the cut will compete for the remaining unclaimed prize payouts.

In the event that a player withdraws prior to start of play or does not start, participants who have selected such players will be provided with the highest ranked player from same performance group. A player who withdraws after having commenced play will not be provided with a substituted player and consequentially will be eliminated.

You may select amateur golfers from the tournament fields where applicable.

The tournament field will be published on the Monday morning preceding tournament play. The presence of other players or changes in the tournament field after it has been published shall in no way affect the outcome of the tournament.

An email will be sent to each contestant requesting player selections. Player selections including changes will be accepted up until 6pm EST on the day preceding start of play. The presence of other players or changes in the Tournament field after selections have been made shall in no way affect the outcome of any Tournament.

No responsibility will be taken for pool registrations or contestant's selections which are lost, delayed, damaged, not received properly on the web site or misdirected in any other manner in the mail or any other electronic means including the Internet.

Entry fee:  
The entry fee for this pool is $20 Canadian and payment must be sent before start of tournament play.

Preferred method of payment is by an Interac E-Mail Money Transfer from your online bank account. Please send to: 

goforthegreengolfpools@gmail.com

Payment by cheque, money order & bank drafts are also accepted by mail and must be postmarked before start of play. Payment can be sent to the following address: 

Séamus Maher
121 Main Street West
Grimsby, ON L3M 1R5

Payments can also be made by PayPal. Login into your PayPal account and send payment to:

goforthegreengolfpools@gmail.com

When sending PayPal funds remember to select Personal and not Purchase so as to avoid PayPal transaction fees. 

Credit card payments are also accepted and these can be sent at:

http://www.goforthegreengolfpools.com/payment.htm

Any contestant whose cheque is returned unpaid will be subject to immediate loss of all entries for such contestant from all pools.

Entries: There will be no limit of the number of entries to the contest. Contestants may enter the pool as many times as they wish, provided they pay the entry fee of $10 for each of their entries.

There is a 10% pool administration fee.

Results from the PGA Tour website on the day following Tournament play will be used to determine results. This is a source believed to be reliable.

All entries become the property of the Contest Administrator and none will be returned.

This pool is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by the PGA Tour or any other organization.

The Pool Administrator reserves the right to disqualify any contestant or to withdraw or amend the contest at any time in its absolute discretion in case of error, technical problem or any matter interfering with the conduct of the pool as contemplated by these rules.

The decisions of the Pool Administrator are final on all matters of fact, interpretation, eligibility, procedure and fulfillment. By entering this contest you acknowledge acceptance of all pool rules and agree to be bound by them.

To register for this popular pool, click below.