Hi
Okay, bear with me. This gets complicated.
Something similar happened at my old club, a quick thinking member created a tourney and set it for Masters only. Nobody spotted we only had one in the club! Needless to say, he won. I caught it right at the end, and as it wasn't a huge amount of credits I had a laugh to myself and let it slide, giving him points for initiative.
He had paid a fee to enter and even though he hadn't actually played he was the only entrant, therefore winner by default. That seems to be covered by WTF WGTs rules on a tie,
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"How are ties handled?
If two players post the same score in a match then the tie-breaker rules will be used to determine the winner of the match.
In the event of a tie, the better scoring entrant between or among the tied entrants will be the entrant with the lowest combined score for the final nine (9) holes of the Game. If any ties remain, the better scoring entrant between or among the remaining tied entrants will be the entrant with the lowest combined score for the final six (6) holes for such Game. If any ties remain, the better scoring entrant between or among the remaining tied entrants will be the entrant with the lowest combined score for the final three (3) holes for such Game. If any ties remain, the better scoring entrant between or among the remaining tied entrants will be the entrant with the lowest score for the 18th hole (9th for nine hole games) in such Game, and any remaining ties will be determined by identifying the lowest scoring entrant for each individual game hole, in sequence from 17th (8th for nine hole games) through to 1st, as is necessary to determine a winner, and if any ties remain at that point, the earlier-submitted entry between or among the tied entries will be deemed the better scoring entry."
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Depending on how the tourney was set up initially the payout rules for a CC tourney (pay to enter) are as follows
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WGT will pay out 80% of the total purse to the winners of each tournament.
The club member who creates the tournament has a couple options for the payout rules. They are
Winner Take All: The Entrant who comes in first place will win the entire purse.
Top 3: 1st Place: 55% of the purse, 2nd Place: 30% of the purse 3rd Place: 15% of the purse
Top 10: 1st - 10th place will receive a payout in the following percentages: 40%, 20%, 10%, 9%, 6%, 5%, 4%, 3%, 2%, 1%
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What appears to happen is this strange bastardization of the rules. I've looked everywhere for a ruling on winning by default, to no avail.
That it shows up as a win in your activity is the same I think as that other gem, ***** won 0 skins in a etc. etc
What's the point of that? Love that on my profile ; )
Basically, someone entered therefore there has to be a winner.
Hopefully that might make some sense, I'm not going to re read it just in case!
Congratulations on the win, well ah... played.!
Cheers
Rich