SELECTION CRITERIA FOR THE “A” DIVISION SELECTION CYCLE 2008/9

EP Senior Inter Provincial Team

Selection of team members is based on the following principles:

·         The player must be a fully paid up member, in good standing, of a golf club affiliated to the EPGU in according to the rules of EPGU with a handicap of 9 (nine) or better.

·         The player must have reached the age of 50 at the start of the IPT Tournament.

·         Play in a minimum of seven rounds consisting of 18 holes of medal golf, in EPGU and EPSAGA sanctioned tournaments out of eleven rounds during the selection cycle.

·         It will be mandatory to play in the selected tournaments that qualify as listed below.

·         Player's participating in EPGU events will qualify for senior prizes.

·         The 2008/9 selection cycle will run from 1^st May 2008 to 28^th February 2009.

·         The first six players in the order of merit automatically qualify for the team, while the seventh and eighth player may be selected as a wildcard.

·         A Super Senior team (+60 years) of four players to be selected on the same basis as above (3 + 1 wildcard)

Ranking Calculation:

Scores form all medal rounds are recorded and ranked as follows:-

a) Average gross score for all rounds played and players ranked from 1st (best average score) to 15th position (worst average score).

b) The best 3 scores and the worst 3 scores of all scores are then taken out, averaged and ranked to see the degree of consistency of each player.

c) The worst 3 scores of all scores are taken out, averaged and ranked to eliminate nightmare rounds.

d)  The scores for the last 6 months from October to March are averaged and ranked to get the current form players.

e) The scores from the last 3 months or last 3 tournaments is averaged and ranked to get an even more current form.

Tournaments that make up the qualifying rounds are as follows:

Selected tournaments that must be played in

EP Senior Amateur tournaments:

Jacobsen EP Senior Open Strokeplay – 36 holes – Hume wood GC - 13^th &14^th July 2008.

EP Senior Championships – 36 holes – Walmer CC - February 2009 (TBC)

EPGU Tournaments:

EP Strokeplay – 18 holes only on Sunday PM 2^nd November – Humewood GC 2008. (First three rounds are optional and can count)

EP Amateur – 18 holes only on Saturday PM – February 2009 (TBC), (Morning round optional and can count)

EP Senior Amateur order of merit events that can count

E P Senior Amateur tournament - Uitenhage GC – 18 holes - 29^th June 2008.

E P Senior Amateur tournament - St Francis Bay GC – 18 holes - 17^th August 2008.

E P Senior Amateur tournament - Humansdorp GC – 18 holes - 21^st September 2008.

E P Senior Amateur tournament – Humewood GC – 18 holes – 23^rd November 2008.

E P Senior Amateur tournament - Walmer CC – 18 holes - January 2009 (TBC)