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it sounds like anyone eligible should be sufficiently motivated to be there without being required though. Giant purses plus no cuts equals a guaranteed pay day and guaranteed FedEx Cup points. If anything, my concern would be that the guys not eligible for these events are going to be falling behind in the season long points race, have a harder time finishing top 50, and it could be a lot harder for someone outside that 50 to break into it year after year. Hopefully there will still be a good balance to ward against that.

I haven't been here much the last couple months as my golf life takes a hiatus in winter, but this is the sort of significant news to jump start it again. 16 events will be considered "elevated" - 4 Majors, PLAYERS appear to remain as full field, and the playoff events in an unchanged format, so 8 total other events look to be the reduced fields and no cuts. One of these will be tournament of champions, so 7 new events will be reduced field and no cut.

Its interesting, I feel my attention to LIV has completely run its course. It was somewhat fascinating to follow in the beginning, i never wanted it to succeed but I was curious enough to tune in to a few minutes and follow the news stories. Now, I don't even know when LIV events are happening, its fallen 100% off my radar. However, I'm significantly MORE aware of the negative things happening in Saudi Arabia because of LIV, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. If sportswashing was some sort of motivation in the beginning I feel like thats significantly backfired.

Tom Kim is Joohyung Kim, its using his real Korean name. And as Wally Fairway mentioned, when selecting your team for the upcoming tournament, you can always filter to "In Upcoming Event." The screenshot below may help with how to get to that. It may take some getting used to, I think it CAN do everything you'd ideally like, just figuring out the intricacies of it may take time.

I got off to a good start in week 1, although still hope to get more than 4 guys through the cut this week. Reminder to adjust your lineups for this week, you can swap guys in and out every week without penalty before tournaments start to make sure you have 6 active guys for that week, but each golfer can only be used in 4 tournaments all season. And again anyone who would like to join in late can always do so! Just let me know here and I can manually add you to the league

The 6 you pick at the beginning are fixed for that tournament. Missing the cut is intended to carry a penalty. So yes, after players tee off Thursday everything remains locked until the next tournament

Within the rules of the contest, then that's fine. But typically all the golf I play is just me vs the course, and in that situation I would just want my own round to be respected

The serious group, for one reason only. I don't care at all what other people in their own round, they can take all the breakfast balls and illegal drops they want. But don't touch my ball for "gimmes."

We are in our season kickoff week! Official fantasy PGA play will begin this Thursday, don't forget to set your teams! A couple small changes as we get started - first, I have a slightly easier way for setting lineups. You should now see a tab within Fantrax named "Adjust my Roster." From this screen you can seemlessly add players to your current 6 for the week, and easily drop any players for quick changes. A subtle change, but one that I think should save some clicks week to week as you're setting your team. Second, I had to close the open enrollment for people to join the league, but it is NOT closed off completely. Anyone new who would like to get in, please still go to www.fantrax.com and create an account if you don't already have one, and leave your username here. I can manually add you to the league and you'll be good to go! As always, any questions or issues with Fantrax just let me know and I'll help out the best I can. @Club Rat @coachjimsc @Shindig @Wally Fairway @Sandy Lie

A good showing from @coachjimsc in our preseason tournament, hopefully everyone feels ok with the format and Fantrax functionality. I believe I have a slightly simpler way to manage your lineups week to week, but it won't be functional until we "finish the draft." Obviously there is no draft, but checking that box early makes it harder for people to join, however it does look like I can manually add new players once the open window to join closes. As I mentioned, I reset the league following this tournament so we can kick off for real after the President's cup. So one more week for anyone to get in and join for the full season!

So we are underway for our test week, definitely let me know if there are any questions about the format or functionality of Fantrax. Once we are through this week as a test run, the league will be reset to begin officially after the Presidents Cup at Sanderson Farms. Would love to keep growing it before we start for real, but I should be able to keep it open for anyone to join late as well. Tell your friends, the more the merrier!

I haven't had anyone truly terrible, but did play with a guy once who literally forgot I was playing with him, multiple times throughout the round. There was a group in front of us so he couldn't take off completely, but started on the first hole, both hit our tee shots, I was maybe 10 yards directly behind him and got to my ball first. I was literally stepping up to my ball when he just walked up to his and started to get ready to hit. I gave him a "heads up" and he got out of the way, but that continued all round. If he hit first, he'd just start walking after his ball. If I hit first, I'd constantly have to know where he was because of how often he walked ahead of me. Just completely oblivious that he was playing with someone no matter how many times I reminded him I was there. After the 9th hole, he holed out before me, then just grabbed his bag and walked off to his car without a word.

Yes, it all functions the same, I took screenshots from the app, but the process is identical.

Yeah, glad you asked, i was going to check and see if everyone was comfortable with the team selection process, and part of why I wanted a trial week so everyone could get used to it. If you're on the app, you can go to the 3 bars in the bottom right to open up the main menu, find our league, then go to Players. Once youre in the list of players, it will by default show everyone on Tour, which you can scroll through this list. Anyone with a Green Checkmark by their name indicates they are in the field this week. You can search for a specific player by name in the search box in the top right. Or if you hit the blue circle, it will open up filters, and in the filter drop down there is an option to filter by only players in the upcoming event. Once you find the player you want to add for your team, hit the green + next to his name, it should pop up the yellow box shown below, in which you can simply hit Submit Now, and that player will be added. Repeat for your other 5 spots until you have a roster of 6. Once we get past the first week, players will stay on your roster each week if you don't take any action. In order to change your roster between tournaments, when you add a new player, you'll need to hit Next instead of Submit Now, and it will take you to your team roster to drop one of your existing players. Alternatively, you can go directly to your team roster and Drop them all with the red minus symbol before making new selections each week.

There is not an actual draft. It just has to live in a "pre-draft" state to stay open for people to join. You can simply pick up the players you want to use at any time by going to Players and hitting the green + to add them to your team. This week is just a trial run so it won't count towards your season totals, but once we get into the actual season you'll only be able to have a player for 4 tournaments all season, it will just be up to you each week to drop and pick up the 6 you want each week, otherwise your previous week's 6 will carry over