Q-School

Step-By-Step Instructions for Earning Your TGC Tours Card

• Register for a TGCT account by clicking here
  • Make sure all information is accurate when filling out your profile - especially your gamertag - triple check!
• Go to Q-School Registration page by clicking here
• Select the system on which you will play your rounds
• Select the week you want to play
• Q-School is played via the TGCTours (CC-Pro) society in-game
• Course info can be found on the Q-School Schedule
• Wait until your selected date arrives (feel free to practice a lot in the meantime!)
• Load The Golf Club 2019
• Enter the Online Societies section
• Search and join the TGCTours (CC-Pro) society
• Begin the active tournament
• Play your rounds (all 4) - You must use Pro or Master's Clubs
• You do not have to play all 4 in one sitting - you can stop and come back
• You can not restart - it's a one shot deal
• You may use Pro or Master's clubset but in order to qualify of PGA, Euro, or Web, you must use Master's Clubs. Pro clubset users will be place in the Challenge Circuit. Beginner Club users will play on the Beginner Club Tour and do not need to qualify.
• Scores will be auto-submitted by the TGCT API to the Q-School Leaderboard. The link for the Q-School Leaderboard can be found on the Q-School schedule page.
• Scores are pulled in to the leaderboard every 15 minutes. If your scores don't show up 2 hours after you play, triple check that your gamertag on the in-game leaderboard matches your TGCT profile gamertag exactly
• If still having issues email commish@tgctours.com to create a support ticket
• Confirm all four rounds are on the Q-School Leaderboard prior to the event closing on Saturday
• Wait until event is finalized by TGCT admin on Sunday
• Based on where you finished you will receive a TGCT Tour card and a notification email late Sunday
• You can then begin to play official TGCT events! Be sure to check which society you need to join in order to play with your new tour card...you can find that information below.

Q-School Details

• Q-School will be run out of the TGCTours (CC-Pro) society every week
• CC-A members that play that week will be placed on the Q-School leaderboard as placeholders along with new members qualifying for a tour card
• Demarcation lines for the different tours will be placed on the Q-School Leaderboard each Thursday
• All demarcation lines will be based off the score above the CC-A exemption for the official CC-A flight that week
• when the event is finalized on Sunday - all new members will receive a tour card based on where they finished on the master leaderboard, CC-Pro placeholders will be ignored
• CC-A players are placed on the Q-School leaderboard to make you feel like you aren't playing alone - they are there to give you a sense of being in a big event - again, they are just placeholders
• New members are mainly concerned about where they place within the various cutlines as that will determine your tour card
• Members that just received a tour card will be auto-registered in their new tour's upcoming event around 3am UTC on Monday morning

Tournament Procedures

What Tour or Flight am I on?

You can find out by looking at your name in the top right corner of www.tgctours.com...your tour/flight will be beside it.

Where do I find the Tournaments in-game?

All our events are played in the following societies:

TGCTours (Special Events) for Special Events, Majors, and WGC events
TGCTours (PGA Tour)
TGCTours (European Tour)
TGCTours (Web.com Tour)
TGCTours (CC-Pro) for CC-A, CC-B, CC-C, CC-D, and Weekly Q-School
TGCTours (CC-Am) for CC-E, CC-F, CC-G, CC-Z, and Beginner Club Tour

Tournament Registration

TGC Tours now has auto-registration and auto-score submission assuming you have correctly entered your gamertag exactly as it appears on your system's leaderboard in-game.

All registrations are done automatically. If you play the event in-game, you will be automatically registered and your scores will be posted to the leaderboard.

There are no restrictions on the number of tournaments you may enter during a season. However, you may only enter into one tournament per week...the tournament for which you have a tour card. One exception is the True Sim Tour - you can play the TST alongside your main tour every week.

Withdrawing from a Tournament

There is no need to withdraw from tournaments. If you did not play a single shot you will receive a Did Not Play Event for the week.

If you have teed off and can't/don't finish, you will receive a WD for the week and receive 2 demotion marks.

Score Submission

Scores are automatically pulled from the game. Please ensure your gamertag in your TGCT profile matches your console/PC gamertag exactly. If your scores do not get pulled within the first 2 hours (assuming event has officially opened on site), click the Submit Ticket link to get admin help.

My Scores table

Use the My Scores table on the leaderboard to self verify the scores you shot. Within 2 hours of completing your rounds you should see them in the My Scores table. Please note that not all your scores will show on the main leaderboard as they are slow revealed throughout the week.

The API will not pull scores until the event opens officially on site (Monday) so if you play early on Sunday you will have to wait until Monday to see your R1 score.

Clubsets

Pro Tours (PGA, European, Web): Use of Master clubset is mandatory
Challenge Circuit: Use of Pro or Masters clubsets is mandatory
Beginner Club Tour: Use of Beginner clubset is mandatory

Wind Meter

Round Deadlines

PGA, European, and Web.com

• 1st and 2nd round scores must be completed prior to 4am UTC on Friday of the tournament week.
• 3rd and 4th rounds completed prior to the tournament's closing at 8am UTC on Sunday.

Challenge Circuit / Beginners Club Tour

• You must complete all four rounds by Sunday at 8am UTC.

Cuts

There are no cuts on the Challenge Circuit.

For all other tours, cuts for all tournaments will be the top 70 plus ties (unless otherwise noted) of all scores that have completed rounds 1 and 2 by the aforementioned deadline. For tournaments with large numbers of participants, we may increase the cut line to be nearer to 50% of the field.

If you miss a cut, your third and fourth round scores will be displayed as MC.

You may still play your Round 3 and 4 even before the cuts are made if you wish, but any Round 3 or 4 score posted that doesn't make the cut will be removed from the database. It will be as though you never played it.

Round Advancement

The tournament leaderboard will show progressive round scoring based on the following schedule:

• Round 1 - 4:00 AM (UTC) on Monday of week of tournament
• Round 2 - 4:00 AM (UTC) on Wednesday of week of tournament
• Round 3 - 4:00 AM (UTC) on Friday of week of tournament
• Round 4 - 4:00 AM (UTC) on Saturday of week of tournament

Winners and Ties

• The player with the lowest total number of strokes after four rounds will be the tournament winner.
• In the event of tie at the top of the leaderboard, the lowest score on the 18th hole of the 4th round will be the winner. If still a tie, the previous holes be used until a winner is decided.
• If one scorecard does not show hole by hole data for the 4th round that person will lose the tiebreak
• If both scorecards are not available the lowest 4th round score (then 3rd, 2nd, 1st) will be used. Last tiebreaker will be best WGR.

Majors and Invitational Tournaments

• PGA Tour members automatically qualify for Major events (except The Masters).
• WGC events, and any other Invite Only only events, you will be automatically registered by TGC Tours.
• Qualifications for Invite Only events will be posted/stickied in the tour board on our forums

Tour Membership

Earning a Tour Card

To earn a tour card, you must complete Q-School where your score will determine what tour card you will receive. Please refer to the Q-School section of this page for further details.

Losing a Tour Card

You may lose your tour card if you are banned or suspended for policy violations as determined by the commish.

Sponsor's Exemptions

Sponsor Exemptions have been removed for Season 5 - they are no longer possible to earn

Demotions & Promotions

Pro Tours (PGA, European, Web.com)

• Winner = +2 movement marks
• Top 10 = +1 movement mark
• 120-139 = -1 movement mark
• 140+, DQ/WD = -2 movement marks

• Winner = +2 movement marks
• Top 10 = +1 movement mark
• Miss cut to 139 = -1 movement mark
• 140+, DQ/WD = -2 movement marks

• Winner = +2 movement marks
• Make Cut = +1 movement mark
• 120-139 = -1 movement mark
• 140+, DQ/WD = -2 movement marks

Challenge Circuit

• Winner = auto-promoted
• Top 20 = +1 movement mark
• 120-139 = -1 movement mark
• 140+, DQ/WD = -2 movement marks

• Winner = Auto-Promoted
• Top 20 = +1 movement mark
• 101-139 = -1 movement mark
• 140+, DQ/WD = -2 movement marks

• Winner = auto-promoted
• 2-100 = +1 movement mark
• 120-139 = -1 movement mark
• 140+, DQ/WD = -2 movement marks

Tour Info

Promotion Events

• These are special events that members from all main tours/flights can participate in - with the purpose of topping up tours/flights every 3 months
• Entry requirements will be announced prior to the event
• Promotion slots available will be announced prior to the event
• Users can fast track up the tours with good play during these events - you can jump more than 1 flight/tour
• Participation is optional for those who meet the qualifications
• Will be a special event, meaning you can play on your home tour and in this event in the same week
• All Tours/Flights: To qualify for a promotion you must shoot even par or lower for the event

• Each tour will be monitored for active users. The average field size in the 4 weeks leading up to a Promotion Event will dictate whether that tour will be topped up.
• If the average field size is below the ideal field size (see below) we'll add those slots to the Promotional Event. There will be a trickle down effect as people promote up from various tours/flights - we'll do our best to ensure that following a Promotion Event each tour/flight will meet the ideal field size going forward.
• Every member that meets the entry requirements will be auto-registered
• PGA players are excluded since they can not promote any further
• Participation is optional
• Master clubs required to promote to a Pro Tour (PGA, European, Web.com)

Web.com Tour Finals

Challenge Circuit Purse Distribution

All Challenge Circuit scores will go on a (hidden) master leaderboard (CC-Pro and CC-Am have separate master leaderboards) from which you will be assigned your base point number via reverse ranking. From there your base point number will go through a flight multiplier. The resulting number will then be subject to a placement bonus on your flight and then finally a money multiplier - this final calculation will determine how much money you receive for that event.

Examples:

Fast Track on CC-Am

Fast Track CC-Am promotions are based on a standard deviation formula compared to avg-score of the field. Anyone shooting better than this value will be auto-promoted to the flight above.

The CC-Am tour will have the highest amount of golfers improving - as many are shooting over par coming out of Q-School and then improving drastically in a short period of time. This will help keep the top of the CC-Am leaderboards balanced while allowing those that have settled into the CC-Am skill level a chance to compete without having to worry about guys shooting lights out and slowly moving through CC-Am into CC-Pro.

Other Tours

True Sim Tour (TST)

Beginner Club Tour (BCT)

The Beginner Club Tour is the only place on TGC Tours that you can use the beginner clubset. If you want to join this tour you need to edit your TGCT profile and click the Join Beginner Tour check box.

This tour runs out of the TGC Tours (CC-Am) society in-game. There is no cut on the BCT.

If you join the BCT before completing Q-School you can leave at any time to the main tours (Pro/Master clubs only) by registering for and completing Q-School.

If you join the BCT after having a tour card on the main tours, you'll need to wait 4 weeks from the time you joined the BCT before you can register/complete Q-School to get a tour card again.

Bugs and Glitches

Anytime you encounter a bug or glitch ' email commish@tgctours.com immediately - most are dealt with on a case by case basis

Multiple Accounts Policy

Anyone submitting scores under multiple accounts during the same week will be subject to administrative review. If we deem it to be a blatant attempt to game the system, we will disqualify all associated accounts.

If you own The Golf Club 2019 on multiple systems, you may play on one system per week, but you are free to switch systems from week to week. You would need to have both system's gamer tags registered in your account profile.

Fair Play Policy

TGC Tours strongly recommends the use of Stock XB1 and PS4 controllers (controllers manufactured by Microsoft or Sony respectively). You may only use another controller or a mouse provided that it meets our Fair Play Analysis which analyzes several metrics from your shot data. Please note that we also recommend that you do not use Steam Link as that has been known to cause problems with input registering correctly.

Our metrics will allow most users with stock PS4 and XB1 controllers ample room to play on TGC Tours with no issues.

• Shot data will be monitored and if any results fall outside our Fair Play criteria, all scores will be withdrawn for the week
• Pro tours (PGA, Euro, Web) will have Fair Play Metrics checked for R1 & R2 after the 2nd round ends and R3 & R4 checked after the 4th round ends
• CC-Pro/Am will have Fair Play Metrics for all rounds checked after the 4th round ends
• Members that have scores withdrawn will be auto-emailed a link to a private board on our forums for support
• TGCT reserves the right to withdraw any abnormal results that we deem counter to our Fair Play Policy

A note about 3rd party controllers/officially licensed

There are many officially licensed controllers for both the PS4 and XB1. Officially licensed is another term for 3rd party controller. Most of these controllers are not built with the same quality/sensitivity as the PS4 or XB1 official controller. An officially licensed or 3rd party controller may look like a regular controller but may not pass our Fair Play metrics analysis. Please be aware of this when claiming your controller is an Official XB1 or PS4 controller - it may not be.

Also, please note we have yet to see a controller manufactured by Power A, Hori, or Logitech pass our Fair Play metrics. If your controller is manufactured by either of these manufacturers, it is highly unlikely that your scores will be accepted.

A note for PC users

TGC Tours strongly recommends the use of a Microsoft-manufactured XB1 controller for use on PC. You may only use a mouse if you can make that mouse operate with the same difficulty that one would face when using an XB1 controller. This often means increasing the mouse sensitivity via DPI settings to facilitate a longer hand movement to create the swing.

Please also note the XBOX 360 controllers are very hit and miss. Some of them work fine, but others fail. If you want to use an XB360 controller, it is best to test your controller in a test event and ask admin to review the data.

If your scores are not accepted due to our Fair Play policy, please create a thread in our Fair Play Assistance forum and include your mouse or controller make and model number. Please note that we do not offer support for Fair Play issues via email or support ticket. Please use the private forum.

No Cheating Accusations

All public cheating accusations will result in temporary forum bans. The majority of users removed from the leaderboards via our Fair Play policy are not cheating - just using devices with forgiving settings/deadzones that make it unfair to compete against stock controller users - usually unknowingly. Any concerns should be emailed to commish@tgctours.com.

Acceptable Shots on the Greens

Putter must be used on the green unless your putting line is obstructed by fringe/rough/bunker or your putt is longer than 100 feet, in which case use of a putter is not mandatory.

Putting line Definition: The "putting line" is the line that the player wishes his ball to take after a stroke on the putting green. Except with respect to Rule 16-1e, the line of putt includes a reasonable distance on either side of the intended line. The line of putt does not extend beyond the hole.

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Violations of this policy will result in event disqualification.

Policing of this issue will be the responsibility of tour members. If you see a ghost ball chipping on the green and it is obvious they are breaking the above rule, record a video and submit it to us at commish@tgctours.com (not on the forums!).

The video must be from the perspective of the ghost ball - you can do this by selecting Watch Replay and pick the ghost ball that is chipping on the greens. We must have a clear view of the infraction as well as the user's gamertag.

TGC Tours will have the final say on all cases.

Member Behavior Expectations

a. Mutual Respect Among Members. TGC Tours strives to preserve and protect the centuries-old notion of golf as a game where sportsmanship and self-respect are the pillars upon which all the rules of the game are built. TGC Tours expects from all of its Officials, Staff, Members and Designers that only sportsmanlike and courteous interactions will take place on the course, in the forums, when reviewing courses, and elsewhere.

b. General. No malicious, derogatory, degrading, racist, sexist, homophobic, offensive, harassing, or otherwise hostile comments will be tolerated by TGC Tours. Failure to follow this rule will be punished by immediate suspension of the Member's account. Repeat offenders will be permanently banned from TGC Tours. A serious or aggravated first-time offense may result in an immediate, permanent ban, without notice to the offender. Please report all issues of this type to commish@tgctours.com.