RichJohn: Not the way I would have done this, qualification should have meant more in my opinion! Correct Lisa?
At this point it really doesn't matter what any of us think re: pairings. I'm sure there is a considerable amt of work setting up the matches. Whether the teams qualify through the qualifying round or not, the knockout stage will be set up using the team's country club total earnings.
E.G.: for 16 teams being A, B, C, ... N, O, P with "A" being the top earning and "P" the bottom earning the knockout will be drawn as follow:
A vs P, B vs O, C vs N and so on.
More than just seeding the brackets. Every week, the challenging teams will be copeting against each other on three different "weekly single" venues as follows:
=1= Weekly 9 holes single play
Players from both teams will be matched individually, based on player's name order
=2= Weekly Multiround Front 9 (or first round)
Players from both teams will be matched individually, based on Tier and Average
=3= Weekly 18 holes single play
The challenging teams of 6 players will be split into 3 couples, based on Tier and Average (T&A), in the following fashion:
That doesn't change the format of playing 3 single play events weekly.
Two of our team have already completed all rounds.