Run a golf pool: the four formats

Office Pool, Salary Cap, Snake Draft and Season Long. Picks close Thursday before the first group tees off. The commissioner pays from $12.99 a tournament and the pot stays with your group.

When do golf picks lock?

Thursday morning, before the first group tees off. The lock is computed from the course longitude, so an event in the UK closes earlier in UTC than one on the US East Coast; a venue with no stored longitude falls back to Thursday 12:00 UTC. You can edit your lineup as many times as you like until then.

Can I enter more than once?

In an Office Pool, up to 3 entries per member if the commissioner turns it on. Each entry carries its own picks, team name, tiebreaker and standings line. The default is 1.

How are the tiers built?

From the tournament field, sorted by betting odds. Five tiers by default, and the commissioner sets how many picks come out of each one. Tour fields land around the Monday of tournament week: set the tiers before that and the golfers fill in when the field drops.

What happens if my golfer misses the cut?

Whatever the commissioner picked at creation. A fixed penalty of 8 strokes per missed round, the worst round carded by the field that day, a custom penalty of 1 to 10 strokes, or excluded entirely for no-cut events.

What does a golf pool cost?

The commissioner pays once, priced by the team cap: $12.99 up to 20 teams, $19.99 to 40, $24.99 to 60, $34.99 to 100, $49.99 to 300 and $69.99 above that. Per tournament for the weekly formats, once per season for Season Long. Members never pay TourneyRun, and TourneyRun never holds the pot.