How does the PGA determine pairings for the final round of a golf tournament?
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it is based on greens in regulation, fairways hit or other stats that are kept during the round
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There are two parts to this answer..The PGA Tour wants to protect the photographic images of its players, but more to the point, people shooting cameras at a golf tournament are a distraction to the competitors.\n\nEven professional photographrs, who are covering tournaments on assignment, must follow strict guidelines about when and where they can take photos. Allowing untrained individuals to take pictures at an event would create all kinds of distractions and remember, in golf, the players don't have guaranteed contracts.
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No its "unique" to the Us open, due to the fact its run by the USGA rather than the PGA, plus if you saw, its only a par 70 not a par 72 as most other courses are yet it was exactly the same length as a par 72, just set up to be 2 strokes shorter, hence the fact all the scores were in "over" par!!!
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There are different ways to set it up.  For double elimination, the loosers play each other.
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Professional Golfers' Association of America. This is not the same as the PGA Tour. The Tour is an offshoot of the PGA and works closely with it. But, they are not officially tied to each other.
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Goosen shot 6 under par. Mickelson shot 4 under par. \n3 days left in tournament.Northern Irelands Graeme McDowell leads on 8 under par.
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The full, official list won't officially be available yet ... PGA Golfers are not required to resgister that they are playing in an event until the week before the event. Some make committments to events earlier than that, but they don't have to.\nCheck out www.pga.com and follow the links to the specific May tournament you are looking for, as the Wachovia Championship, EDS Byron Nelson Championship, Bank of America Colonial and FedEx St. Jude Classic are all played in May.
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Brent:\n\nI thought about this question for literally two hours. There are many factors invloved which effect the answer to this question.\n\n# 1 is the course...it's been redesigned many times over the years. I'm going to assume this magical match is going to take place on today's behemoth of a course. \n\nSince it's taking place on the 2006 version of Firestone CC, which really favors a long hitter who can fade the ball (Hogan) rather than a ball striker such as Nelson. \n\nAlthough match play tends to favor the more consistent player, both of these players have been identified as two of the best ball strikers off all time...neither were said to be fantastic putters, but I recall reading that Hogan would go years without missing a short putt (this was before he got the yips later in his career).\n\nI'm also going to assume that they're going to be using their vintage clubs....which I think would favor Hogan since he was noted to be a great fairway wood and long iron player...which would help at Firestone of today with it's massive length. \n\nAfter figuring all the variables I still believe it would come down to one thing....Hogan always was ticked at Nelson, who grew up in the same caddy yard as young Ben (although a few years older and much bigger) and garnered much of the attention of the members. \n\nThis always left Hogan with a chip on his shoulder against Nelson. I think The Hawk would stare Nelson down and beat him with a birdie on The Monster, 16 at Firestone...3 and 2. \n\nNice question, I enjoyed formulating an answer to it!
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I'm not exactly sure what situation you're referring to, but you can review the rules of golf here:\n\nhttp://www.usga.org/playing/rules/rules.html
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In a "single club" tournament, you can use only one club. If you're playing with a 7-iron, then you must putt with the 7-iron and play 7-iron from no matter were you are on the course. I've seen variations where you're allowed one club plus a putter, but in a TRUE single club tournament, you are allowed ONLY one club.
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In all sports could exist a tie, it depends of the system of play choosen for the tournament:\n# If it is the league system, then you could have matches ending in ties.\n# If it is the knock-out system, then you would always have a winner and a loser.\n\nFor the Fifa World cup, they use both system:\n# First round is played by the league system\n# The round of sixteen, quarterfinals, semifinals, play-off for third place and final will all be played in accordance with the knock-out system\n\nFYI: there is no ties in baseball because they play under the knock-out system.
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A foursome is playing together.  Each golfer plays his/her ball like normal until they hole out.  The two best scores of the four are the only ones recorded for that hole.  Same procedure for all 18 holes.
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For the first round, I would group them  according to what they tell you their handicaps are.  Example; 10 - 15 hadicapppers together, and 16 -21 handicappers together.  For the Second, 3rd and 4th,  I would take the scores from the first round and then group them according to the closest scores after each day.\n\nThis would in theory give you all similar groups and scores thourougt play.
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Try using a 32-team bracket.  But, in the first column, you'll only use four pairings.  Move the next 12 teams out to the second column.  These 12 teams essentially get "byes" the first round, and the other 8 teams will have to play an extra game.  I think that's just the luck of the draw with that many teams.  Good luck!
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The PGA tour has the q School or Qualifying school which is 3 stages then the final stage is 6 rounds.  the top 20 and ties make the PGA tour and I believe the next 25 get on the nationwide tour.  Also the top 125 on the pga money list keep their cards and the next 25 get conditional play on the tour.  The following 25 get nationwide cards.  Another way is anyone who wins a tour event gets a 2 year exemption unless it is a major then it is 10 years and the players championship gets 5 years.  But you have to play atleast 15 tournaments in a year to keep the card. The top 20 finishers on the nationwide money list also get a card to the PGA tour.  Also if you are in the top 50 alltime money list you can use a one time exemption if you dont Qualify any other way.  The final way to keep your card is if you have 20 career victories you get a life time exemption.  Not a tour exemptions but tournaments on the nationwide tour not so much the PGA anymore also have monday qualifiers for people who havent qualified for the tournament.  But usually its like 30 people going for 1 spot.
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There is usually a large scoreboard by the 18th Green and to be honest, many of them are still mechanically operated. This means that someone will put a card with the player's score manually into a slot, one number for each hole. If a player is under par the number will be in red, if not it will be in black. Note, the scores that are put up are aggregate scores for the entire tournament and not the score they get for that particular hole.
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PGA tour you have to go through Q-school which starts out as a local tournament and if you do well you get to the next one.\n\nSome PGA events - Have a local qualifying the week before the event.  You may have 300 people play for one spot. \n\nUS Open - Starts will local qualifying rounds and advance from there.