• Every hole a player will be eliminated.

    The Player with the worst NET against Par will be consecutively eliminated until four players remain.

    • Tiebreak goes to:

      > low strokehole>high handicap

    A shotgun start means players will be measured against different holes. Players are eliminated based on their 1st thru 36th hole irregardless of starting tee box.

    The last four Amateurs standing enter The Showdown for final glory

    • El Cinturon

    • Seat at the Champions Table

    • Glory

  • First Player Eliminated will…

    • Don La Mascara for the Evening

    • Provide Butler Service for the Champion

The Showdown

After 36 holes, 4 players will remain to enter a Bingo, Bongo, Bango elimination to attempt to come out on top. Order of play will not affect Bingo this year encouraging the best attempts on each shot and eliminating the temptation to massage the quirks of the game to a player’s advantage

Played on the 18th at Turangi an improvised tee box will be at the 90m marker and players will be eliminated via…

  1. Bingo
    The last player to reach the green is eliminated. If multiple players miss the green on their first shot then they will all be allowed to play their second with the furthest from the pin from these players being eliminated as Bingo.

  2. Bongo
    The furthest from the Pin from 3 remaining players is eliminated,.

  3. Bango
    Longest Putt wins the Belt. If both players miss their first putt, Bango will move to a putt off from the nearer of the 2 original marked putts. A sudden death putt off from that mark until somebody drains a putt & eliminates the other as Bango.

Players will tee of from lowest handicap to highest