Masters Office Pool Ideas

pick 5 players, mutliply $ won by world ranking at end of tourney, most $ wins.

For an office pool you want to make sure it is simplified to get people that may not be completely interested in golf involved. This is what my office has done and it works pretty well:

Prepare a sheet that list 5 categories of golfers based on world golf rankings. You must pick one golfer from each ranking category.

1st list (top 4)

T.Woods

P.Mickelson

Sergio Garcia

Geoff Ogilvey

2nd list (next 6 golfers)

Padraig Harrington

Vijay Singh

Camilo Villegas

Kenny Perry

Robert Karlsson

Henrik stenson

3rd list -then next 8 golfers

4th list-next 12 golfers

5th list - rest of the field

You then set up a spreadsheet that lists everyone's fivesome w/ a formula that only calculates the four best golf scores from your fivesome. If someone's fivesome only has three golfers that make the cut, then their last golfer is equivalent to the worst score from the players left after the cut.

we do pick 4 from the field, most money earned wins, final round score and final score overall are tiebreakers. great, simple system.

What about putting the names on a peice of paper put them in a hat and when you pay you pick and that is your golfer for the tourney. We did that at work with the March Maddness and it worked great. Everyone has an even chance and noone will have the same golfers or scores

For an office pool you want to make sure it is simplified to get people that may not be completely interested in golf involved. This is what my office has done and it works pretty well:

 

Prepare a sheet that list 5 categories of golfers based on world golf rankings. You must pick one golfer from each ranking category.

 

1st list (top 4)

 

T.Woods

P.Mickelson

Sergio Garcia

Geoff Ogilvey

 

2nd list (next 6 golfers)

 

Padraig Harrington

Vijay Singh

Camilo Villegas

Kenny Perry

Robert Karlsson

Henrik stenson

 

3rd list -then next 8 golfers

4th list-next 12 golfers

5th list - rest of the field

 

You then set up a spreadsheet that lists everyone's fivesome w/ a formula that only calculates the four best golf scores from your fivesome. If someone's fivesome only has three golfers that make the cut, then their last golfer is equivalent to the worst score from the players left after the cut.

I really like that idea, just got to wait till the field is finally set.

I really like this idea also, except I may tweak it to be total money of your best 4 instead of score.

Any arguments for/against using money over score?

If you use money, the pool winner will pretty much be whoever got the champion right. Last year the difference between 1st and 2nd was over 500k, and you would've needed 2, 3, and 4th place right to overtake someone that chose immelman. If your office has more true golf fans, I would do stroke play. To get more people into the pool, money might work better.

This is what I used to do....

$5.00 per entry...enter as many times as you wish. Payout 1st-60% 2nd-30% 3rd-10% of total $$$$

Pick 5 golfers...low 72 hole score wins...if a golfer misses the cut then they get 1 more stroke than the last place 72 hole finisher...pretty simple to run...especially if you have a "big name" golfer miss the cut.

Tiebreaker: Number of putts by the winner for the 72 holes.

When I did this it started out small, just the boys. But over 3-4 years it grown to over 1200 entries (used to be a Budweiser salesman) with entries coming from patrons at accounts I called on and the world of email and fax machines it got outta hand.

Gave it up when the winner was a father-in-law of a part-time clerk at a local liqour store...he lived in South Dakota...I live in Wisconsin.

Good luck with yours.

What I have done for a pool for the last 3 years or so of majors is as follows, it’s simple and keeps people involved even if they don’t have the best golfers picked

Entry fee is what you want

We usually have about 40 in a pool, , but however many we take that number off the top 40 money list and put those names in a hat , then we place the rest of field in a different hat

Every one has a entry card like a playing card, with there name on, we shuffle those and when they are picked they have one pick from the top 40 and we then divide the rest up amongst every one as there cards are pulled out randomly

What makes our different is that we pay out (X amount) on Thursday, if we have a outright leader at the end of the day if its tied, that amount rolls over to the next day and so on , so if on Saturday we have not had an outright leader that amount then get to the winner, as he is the ultimate winner, which is then added to the winning amount.

We pay out as said above

Winner

2nd place and ties

Top Amateur

Low round

And last place after the cut, gets there money back

Sorry to ramble on hope this helps, every one enjoys, and they don’t have to do much but pay

A guy I worked with was always running sports pools.

One fun twist we did with the golf pool was after the first round you could drop one pick and add one. I liked this feature because for the 1990 US Open, after the Thursday round, I picked up Hale Irwin. :lol:

I'm impressed that you can remember an office pool from 19 years ago.

I'm impressed that you can remember an office pool from 19 years ago.

I only remember because Hale Irwin won the US Open that year. :tongue:

we do pick 10 and add up their $ at the end. 10 makes it way more interesting as picking 4 usually ends with Tiger, Phil, Vijay, Serg.

a buddy of mine always ran a big one for his NW Mutual office:

SIMPLE: 4 tiers of player, multiply money won by tier number

Very simple and there was never a tie.

At the course I work at, for each of the majors, we have a pull em contest.

Put all players name on a piece of paper and put in a bucket,

$5.00 to pull a name. as many as you want.....

If your players wins, you win 50% of the pot, second place 30% of pot, third place 15% of pot, fourth place 5%...

Some people buy one pull and pull Tiger and they think they are set, some buy 10 names and get nothing.....kind of fun for those who don't know much about some of the europeans and asian players who don't play much in the states

The funnest thing to do is sit in our restaurant while peopl are watching the final round on the tv, and are screming for their player, who they didn't know on tuesday to hole a putt, like they are their personal caddy....quite comical...

It is also easiest for us as a course staff, to not have to do any score addition or calcualtions.

When is the cutoff for the field being completely set for the Masters???

We play this one every year. We always setup a private office pool for The Masters and the other majors. It looks simple but it's harder to nail than you would think. I like that you can do staggered deadlines, making a pick throughout the tourney. The site offers a public game that anyone can join. Plus it's all free.

2009 The Masters Office Pools

Check out www.fantasygolfproz.com Pretty decent website for the Masters pool and stuff. You pick 4 golfers, total must be under 18 world rankings pts, lowest aggregate score wins. You get stroke penalty for golfers missing the cut.

We do a 2 best ball tourney. Each player picks 4 golfers and the 2 best balls score. For example, if you have Woods, Casey, Goosen and Els that score on hole 1 as follows. 4, 5, 4, 7, then your team would have an 8 on Hole 1. At the end of four rounds, lowest score wins.

This format requires players to consider who is going to have the best tournament as well has who may score well through out the tourney. Basically, if you have members on your team making birdies on holes where your top players (like Woods, Mickleson etc.) are having an off hole you are going to win. If three of your golfers don't make the cut, you are automatically eliminated.

This is a great format that really gets you involved in every round and hole, not just the end results. The downside is actually scoring the pool. With over 70 enteries, we had to create a spreadsheet to handle the scoring. The spreadsheet is pretty automated, the only negative is NOWHERE CAN WE FIND A WEB PAGE THAT LISTS OUT EACH PLAYER WITH A LINE SCORE IN SPREADSHEET FORMAT. WE HAVE TO CUT AND PASTE EACH INDIVIDUAL LINE SCORE INTO THE SPREADSHEET. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE WE COULD FIND ROUND BY ROUND LINE SCORES IN A SPREADSHEET FORMAT. IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Thanks.

Love the Masters!!!!!!

As for a pool, it can't get simpler than this and it's free. They don't make you register with a credit card or any crap like that. Plus there's an app which I like.

https://www.last2left.com/fantasy-games/the-masters-golf-tournament-2016