LaunchPoint Global Tour: Initial Proposal

Schedule

Three seasons, seven weeks each: six regular season weeks plus a championship week. All weeks run Monday through Sunday.

• Season bundle: clubs can enroll players for all three tours at once during Fall registration. One signup, one payment in October, locked in for the year. Bundled clubs skip the Winter and Spring deadlines entirely.
• Winter deadlines sit earlier than the standard three-week and two-week windows so that nothing lands in the holidays. Fall and Spring follow the standard schedule.
• Regular season. One course per week. A team drops its worst week, so a team can miss a week without falling out of contention. Best 5 of 6 in every tour.
• Championship week. Played on a marquee course, open to the full field, and counts double toward final standings.
• Full course schedule announced 2 weeks before each tour starts.
• Thanksgiving week falls in week 4 of the Fall Tour. There is no skip week. The drop week covers it. Teams who travel take their drop that week. Teams who are home and off work can play.
• Spring ends April 18, before most outdoor courses open in earnest.

Two Separate Tours

SGT and Trackman run as two completely separate tours. Trackman competes against Trackman. SGT competes against SGT. No combined leaderboard, no combined pot, no cross-platform scoring. The two are tracked, funded, and paid out independently.

Format

• Two-man scramble, gross scoring. No handicaps.
• One course per week. A single course schedule is set for the tour and published to all clubs before the season starts.
• Sim settings are locked and identical across all clubs on the same platform.
• One scored attempt per week. The round must be declared before it starts. That score stands. Unlimited unscored practice rounds allowed.
• Weekly window runs Monday through Sunday.
• Leaderboard updated live on this site.
• Tiebreakers are decided by committee vote.
• No minimum participation floor.
• No livestream requirement.

Trackman does not currently support full connection between clubs. Each club runs its own league with settings aligned to the Trackman tournament components so results are directly comparable. Talks with Trackman are ongoing and this will be updated as they progress.

Pricing

Buy-in is $60 per player for every tour. Teams are two-man, so a team pays $120 per tour. Same entry fee on both platforms.

Bundling all three tours in one payment at Fall registration comes to $180 per player.

Trackman

Trackman bills per bay, at $250 per bay per year. Those costs are 100% club funded. The club covers its own bays. Because of that, 100% of the $60 player buy-in goes to the Trackman pot.

SGT

SGT bills a $1,000 annual subscription plus $5 per active player per month. LaunchPoint covers the $1,000 subscription outright. Players never pay toward it, at any field size. One subscription covers all three tours.

Players cover only the per-player portion, $10 per tour. The remaining $50 per player goes to the SGT pot. At 100 players that is a $5,000 pot. At 300 players it is $15,000.

Software cost is split by total enrolled player count across all SGT clubs, not evenly across clubs. A club with 6 players pays for 6. A club with 40 pays for 40. Bay count and club size never penalize anyone.

Bay Time

Each team is allotted 2 hours per week for their scored round, 14 hours over a seven-week tour. What a club charges its own players for that bay time is entirely up to the club. It is separate from the tour buy-in and is not collected or handled by me.

Prize Pool

• Two separate pots: an SGT pot and a Trackman pot. Each is funded by the players competing on that platform and pays out only to that platform’s field.
• Both pots grow with every entry. More players, bigger payout. No fixed pot, no club subsidizing another.
• Clubs can contribute additional cash on top of player buy-ins. I am putting money in myself, and several other clubs have committed to doing the same. All club contributions are published.
• Payouts are spread across the field, not just the top. Proposed paying positions: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, then 10th, 25th, 50th, and 100th, scaling with field size.
• All paying positions are published before the tour starts. Nothing is randomly drawn.
• Winners per club, winners per course, and a tour-long champion on each platform.
• Weekly closest to the pin and low round of the week can run alongside the main format.
• Prize packages could include cash or a trip to a premium club.

Money Handling

• Zero profit on my end. I take nothing. All SGT software costs go directly to SGT. Trackman costs are paid by each club directly to Trackman. I collect nothing from any club or player beyond actual cost. Every number published.
• Prize money is held in a separate escrow or dedicated holding account, not by me and not by any individual club. Ledger visible to every participating club, with the SGT pot and Trackman pot tracked as separate lines.
• Each club remits its enrolled player fees in full 2 weeks before the tour starts. No rolling collection once the tour begins.
• Enrollment locks at the remittance deadline. Players added after that go to the next tour.
• If a tour is cancelled before week one, 100% of funds are returned to all players.
• If a club drops mid-tour, its enrolled players stay eligible and finish the tour. Funds already remitted stay in the pot. No other club is on the hook for a shortfall.
• If a player drops mid-tour, their contribution stays in the pot. No refunds once play begins.
• Payouts issue from escrow after the final week and after winning rounds are reviewed.

Sponsorship

• Actively exploring sponsors for the tour. More details to come.