Order on the tee?

[rob2]

Simple question (to which I do not know the answer!).

On the first day of a tournament how do they decide who tees off first on the first tee? Is it pot luck (balls picked from a hat etc) or it is based on performance/world rankings etc?

Just wondering.........

Rob2

 

[mono217]

Am not sure actually... alls i know is on like our normal away comps we have the lower handicaps first off and so on but dont know about on the tour.

 

[backwoodsman]

As far as I know the honour within each group is in the order the players were drawn into the group.

As to how the groups are drawn & ordered is another thing and I think depends on rankings and the category the player is in (players may be in any one of up to something like 12-15 categories depending on how they qualified to enter the tournament). For the bigger events, it also depends on TV coverage for whatever country - for example Japanese players may well end up being out on the course during peak Japanese viewing time etc

 

[Herbie]

Depends on the format, depends on the comp, depends on the organisation requirements as well as one or two other possibilities, but besides all that its usually down to lowest h/c off first.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

At Augusta I think I'm right in thinking for the opening rounds they try and have a USPGA player, a European and an International if possible.

In normal tour events I nthink they have a number of prime time slots that they try and get their star names into and the rest of the draw is pretty random. I think the Open is a totally random draw.