Tour Rules

[mthunt]

i just got back from Vegas and my club closed on Sunday. It's sim season and we are getting new players every day so I figured I'd repost this. Tour Rules

Rules Sticky

https://golfsimulatorforum.com/forum/protee-golf-simulator/online-play/65157-tgc-tour-rules-and-guidelines

06-26-2017, 03:49 PM
Hi everyone. I think it's important to revisit the rules every now and then as we keep getting new players. Our tour is designed for everyone and every system. It's only for fun but like real golf, we have chosen to allow you to police yourselves. Also like real golf cheating will get you banned. If you are going to play, play by the rules. Everything else is managed by the game. Below are mostly settings.

TGC Tour Rules

Boost and other shot mods:
+/- 5%. Most ProTee/ TGC supported systems have the ability to adjust your settings. This is from having sensor mats and tweaking them. For tour play, you are allowed to adjust any setting by 5%. This means you can add 5% max boost and decrease 5% spin. Believe me, 5% isn't going to change anyone's life. A 20 yard draw would draw 19 yards with 5% adjustment.

Putting:
The standard putting setting was 2. We set it this way because we believed the GC2 would perform fairly at that setting. We recently changed it to allow you to increase the setting so the ball will only go straight. It's your choice what you use. I use 2. Move the slider all the way over and aim with the pointer only if you choose.

Gimmies:
You have to set your system to a max of 1.8 yards. This is done by setting the Gimmie Setting to "Gimmie". If you want no gimmies, knock yourself out.

Wind:
We play without wind. You must as well.

Shot Recording:
Turn it on. You'll see SR in the standings. An X means it's off. We contact those who have it off but sometimes someone that isn't on the form enters a tournament. If it's off, you won't be included in any rankings.

Rewinds:
Obviously a big one. Some systems give errors and strange things happen. Here's some examples:

Allowed:
-A ball was in the FOV of your GC2 and you rolled another couple of balls near by and it read a 2 foot put.
-Your protee said the ball you hit in the middle of your screen went 25 degrees right.
-Your GSX said the ball went 20 yards and it was flushed into the screen.
I think you get it.

Not allowed:
-Your putt lipped out but you think you hit it straight
-Your bunker shot didn't clear the lip but you think it should have
-You sliced it and it's behind a tree
-You hit a 3 wood over water and it didn't make it but you once hit a 3 wood far enough to carry
-You hit a 5 iron and it rolled over the green but you hit a 5 iron outside last week and it stopped
-You hit it in the water and the game put you all the way back where you hit it from. Too bad.

Have fun and play by the rules.


mthunt

[mthunt]

mthunt Hello all, I’m new to the forum and am looking to join the TGC tour with my R-Motion simulator. I understand I need to establish a handicap through Q school to be eligible for the net leaderboards. When I look at the upcoming Q school tourneys (see attached image) none are currently open. Does this mean I won’t be eligible to play in this weekends Sony open or other tournaments until another Q school event pops up? Are there any other ways to establish a handicap and participate?

Thank you in advance for any replies. I’m looking forward to joining this amazing golf community!

You can still play but you won’t have a handicap until you play 5. You’ll be 0. Remember to set gimmies to gimmie.

[SCMCKENZ]

mthunt Hello all, I’m new to the forum and am looking to join the TGC tour with my R-Motion simulator. I understand I need to establish a handicap through Q school to be eligible for the net leaderboards. When I look at the upcoming Q school tourneys (see attached image) none are currently open. Does this mean I won’t be eligible to play in this weekends Sony open or other tournaments until another Q school event pops up? Are there any other ways to establish a handicap and participate?

Thank you in advance for any replies. I’m looking forward to joining this amazing golf community!

[mthunt]

Hello,
Is this TGC tour just for us sim golfers? I mean, we aren't competing against xbox and ps4 gamers against our full swing sims?
If so, are there other groups/societies, in which we know we are actually just playing against other full swing simulators?
Kind of a newbie question i know, but i guess i am a newbie here.
thanks

It’s only people hitting real balls with golf clubs following the rules.

[schrambow]

Hello,
Is this TGC tour just for us sim golfers? I mean, we aren't competing against xbox and ps4 gamers against our full swing sims?
If so, are there other groups/societies, in which we know we are actually just playing against other full swing simulators?
Kind of a newbie question i know, but i guess i am a newbie here.
thanks

[mthunt]

Thanks. Sim golf is fun.

[calebm1001]

Might need to do that! I posted another comment in Q-School thread. I played round 1, then a couple days later I played the next round but it’s as if it restarted my entire event bc it put me back at round 1. I don’t have to play all three rounds in a row, do I?

BTW - love what you do with you courses! Finding you’re name all over TGC.

[mthunt]

FYI, the rules stickies are all the same. I just repost them when I get mad.

[wbond]

BT is encrypted or turned off on GCQ. It's open on GC2. TGC has a computer interface that reads the shot data via BT and sends it to the software.

[calebm1001]

Any of the higher end sims I suppose. But just to confirm, GCQ can't do third party apps, as in you can't play TGC? What does bluetooth have to do with that? ST works off WiFi - I assume Foresight products would do the same, no?

[StanMI]

You might mean "GC2"......... "GCQ" has no Bluetooth and cat do third party apps. (Hope I said that right )

[mthunt]

Scores are automatic. If you aren’t showing up there’s a bug or it will. Please open a ticket with protee they’ll fix it.

[calebm1001]

Well shoot - There is another "Rules" sticky - Can we remove or combine bc I am just seeing this new zero-tolerance rewind rule. I just started getting into the Tour (going through Q-School). I had some issues with my ST where every shot on one specific lie was sending everything left in my most recent round. I turned the ST to point way to the left so if I hit straight it would go right. It worked, so I put it back to normal and everything was fine after that. I used multiple rewinds before deciding to turn the hardware in the opposite direction. I had some additional misreads that round that I rewound and moved along.

Have I been banned? I am not seeing my 2 round score on the Major Q-School Event.

I hate that it has come to this point where we aren't allowed to use rewinds, but i understand. I would think that giving a max allotted rewind per round would have been the best case - I could use at least 2 per round on ST. These things aren't perfect, but when Im going up against a GCQ i just don't see how I can expect to stack up against that hardware.

[JacobM21]

Thanks! I appreciate that

[Genghis]

PSN - Position Net Score
PSG - Position Gross Score
PTN - Points for your Net position for that tournament
PTG - Points for your Gross position for that tournament

[JacobM21]

I'm sorry for the question. What are the stats in our profiles representing? PSN, PSG, PTN, PTG