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TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier Series Entry Criteria
Application Process: AJGA members must
apply for a TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier during the application window which
begins the Friday after the tournament application deadline
at 3 pm ET and runs through Monday, 12 pm ET. The
order applications are received has no affect on the qualifier
field, however players must apply within this window to be
considered. Players who apply after this point will
be placed on an alternate list, after those who applied during
the application window, in the order they are received. Space
permitting, non-members may apply one week following the
TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier release to AJGA members.
The first 50 percent of the field will be filled
as follows:
Step 1: Rising seniors (2013 grads) from
the state of the qualifier who have yet to earn entry into
a tournament or TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier during the current season
Step 2: Rising seniors (2013 grads) from
a bordering state of the qualifier who have yet to earn entry
into a tournament or TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier during the current season
Step 3: All other rising seniors (2013
grads) who have yet to earn entry into a tournament or TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier
during the current season
Step 4: All other rising seniors
The next 40 percent of the field will be filled
as follows:
Step 5: All other grad years from the state
or bordering state of the qualifier who have yet to earn
entry into a tournament or TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier during the current
season
Step 6: All other grad years who
have yet to earn entry into a tournament or TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier during
the current season
Step 7: All other grad years
The final 10 percent of the field, as well as the
alternate list, will be filled as follows:
Step
8: Random draw
Ties at any step will be broken by:
1)
Performance Based Entry status
2)
Location
a.
Players from the state of the TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier
b.
Players from a bordering state of the TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier
3)
Random draw
Notes:
- If there are not enough players to fill a designated
step, the spots will carry over to the next step of the
criteria.
- For tiebreaker purposes, a player’s Performance
Based Entry status is frozen at the start of the TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier
application window for that week.
- TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier field sizes are typically 100 players (80 boys,
20 girls).
- Final TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier fields and alternate lists will be posted
on Tuesday at 5 pm ET following the release of the application.
- Approximately 10% of the TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier field will qualify into the actual Tournament. The exact number of spots will be posted at Qualifier registration.
- Players accepted to a tournament field are allowed to fill vacant spots in a corresponding TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier during the same week. Tournament participants can apply to the TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier at the same time as players not in a tournament field (true qualifier participants). Priority will go first to true qualifier participants. True qualifier applicants will have one week to apply for qualifier spots before any tournament participants will be placed into the TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier field. Tournament participants will be ranked according to the number of playing opportunities (Tournament & Qualifier) they have been accepted to or played with the AJGA this season. Those with the lowest opportunities will have a higher priority if spots remain in a corresponding TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier field. Ties at any step will be broken by Random Draw.
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