Corwyn:The Tour Spreadsheet is here, including provisional credits totals for wk22, even though the tourney is not yet closed out officially.
Follow these links to go straight to team qualification info: Team USA | Team ROW
As mentioned in the Spring UEL Tour thread, wk22 did get closed out sometime yesterday, and the provisional credit totals were spot on. Now that it has closed, I can also do the wrap up post here:
UEL Ryder Cup @ Chambers Bay :: Final Team Standings: after week 22 tourney at St Andrews
see post above for explanation of how these spreadsheets work
Below are updated sheets for each Team's qualification status following wk22 results at St Andrews in the Spring 2015 UEL Tour. Please check that everything is correct. Note: to be a part of this qualification process you just had to play the weekly UEL single-play tourney (and shoot par or better, or finish with a credit prize), and then indicate your intent to try and make whichever team.
Click on images below to go straight to respective spreadsheets, or right-click images below to open in new tab, and zoom in to see full size ....
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Team USA: FINAL Qualification standings after wk22 tourney
For the third consecutive Ryder Cup, bhoese secured his spot on the USA team by virtue of being the leading player from their country in the TL tier credit standings. He's joined in the second place on the team by akash1592, who was the leading US credit winner in L tier.
The next 4 spots go to the next best placed players in the best 9 finishes in the combined Credit standings. They are: mmyers0, GolferDadRB, DaveDwingdale and Shankette.
The final 4 automatic spots go to the next best placed players in the best 9 scores combined Relative to Par standings. They are ColumbusStorm (US team captain), frenchconnect, Wesdogg75, and fredsf.
The USA team is made up of these 8 TLs and 2 L players, with 2 captain's picks to be made closer to the event.
On the US side, players unlucky to miss automatic qualification include KyRock75 who was only 37cr behind a place in the best9 credits standings and 2 strokes behind Fred in the relative to par standings. BigKnight was the next closest challenger, some 8 strokes behind Fred.
Team ROW: qualification standings after wk22 tourney
Things were much more dramatic in the ROW Team qualification, with half a dozen challengers for automatic spots battling it out intensely over the closing weeks.
fmagnets and Corwyn secure their slots on the ROW team by virtue of being the leading players in the TL and L tier credit standings respectively (indeed, they both won their Tours by comfortable margins. Congrats!). Mags had a huge 834cr margin over next placed player Saurabh, while Corwyn was clear of US player akash1592 in 2nd by 518cr.
The next 4 spots go to the next best placed players in the best 9 finishes in the combined credit standings: Saurabh08, KonradOse, Priestess, and JoeMaverick fill those positions. Saurabh08 had gotten off to a fantastic start in the Tour, leading for the first few weeks, until he faded a little but held a comfortable 2nd place finish in the TL tier. Special mention must go to JoeMaverick, whose place on the team was far from secure, when he came up with a superb close to the season, with 2nd place finishes in the last 2 weeks. duffputt had won in the third to last week; johehejo had won in the second to last week, and both challenged hard for the last spot in this category... but it still looked likely that second placed ROW Legend tier player FluffyGreens would hold on to her qualifying spot. A stumble in the last 2 weeks cost her dearly, and Joe's high finishes brought in enough credits to overtake her by just 77cr.
The final 4 spots go to the next best placed players in the best 9 scores in the combined relative to par standings: they are FairwayRuepel68, Legaci, johehejo.... and duffputt. FairwayRuepel68 and Legaci both topped the magic -100 mark, while johehejo's strong Tour finish let him rise rapidly up the standings to squeeze in by 1 stroke ahead of two players tied on -95.
duffputt was one of these: he had been impressively consistent throughout the Tour and seemed a certainty to qualify especially after his wk20 win at RSG. However, the best9 worked against him, his solid regular scoring not as strong as others' spectacular good weeks. The other player tied on -95 was Daskino, who had also seemed a sure bet to qualify throughout... indeed, he was in an automatic spot every week until the last. A poor final round at St A's cost him dearly: 1 shot better would have been enough to qualify. Instead his tie with duffputt led to our first-ever tiebreak: it went to the overall Relative to Par scores between the two (see bottom part of pic above) and duffputt prevailed by a mere 2 strokes over the 12 tourneys.
The ROW team is made up of these 9 TL and 1 L players, with 2 captain's picks to be made closer to the event.
Other outstanding ROW players came close to automatic qualification, most notably MatildaIgaly and Dazza501, only 3 and 5 strokes back respectively. And there were others for whom one win or a high finish would have made the difference: Tgkomv, Adalanar, and pierolitfiba to name a few.
Remember, there are still captains' picks to be made, and one way to impress the captain is to continue to play, and perform well, in the weekly UEL 18-hole tourneys, and to look out for the probable UEL event that WGT may hold at Chambers after the VUSO.
And, with the certainty that alternates will be needed, ROW players that missed out should keep in touch with this thread and be ready for a call if needed!
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Thank you everyone for your participation in the Spring 2015 UEL Tour and for battling away for Ryder Cup qualification. It has been an exciting process to follow.
Congratulations to all those who made automatic team selection, and commiserations to those that fell short.
Please look out for a separate thread with further tourney information in the summer, including a Time Availability signup form which will be posted in August. The UEL Ryder Cup @ Chambers Bay is scheduled to begin mid-late September. I'll give event dates as soon as I can.
In the meantime, best of luck to all of you in the VUSO!