SRIXON / CLEVELAND ORDER OF MERIT

Thanks to our Order of Merit Sponsor CLEVELAND GOLF / SRIXON, and our Major Sponsors MAUI JIM CANADA and GATEKEEPER SYSTEMS, players are playing for $40,000 in Year-End Awards, Cash & Prizes!!

Points from this event will count towards the season-ending SRIXON Order of Merit & the

2026 RACE TO WAILEA!!  

 

The Professional Order of Merit will be based on the following point system using gross scores over 36-Holes:

 

1st Place: 3000 pts	6th Place: 1200 pts	11th Place: 700 pts	16th Place: 350 pts
2nd Place: 2200 pts	7th Place: 1100 pts	12th Place: 600 pts	17th Place: 300 pts
3rd Place: 2000 pts	8th Place: 1000 pts	13th Place: 500 pts	18th Place: 250 pts
4th Place: 1600 pts	9th Place: 900 pts	14th Place: 450 pts	19th Place: 225 pts
5th Place: 1400 pts	10th Place: 800 pts	15th Place: 400 pts	20th Place: 200 pts

 

Amateur OOM will be based on the following point system for a full field based on alternating gross and net scores.  Order of Merit Points may be modified in any given event based on relative field size:

 

1st Gross: 3000 pts	6th Gross: 600 pts	1st Net: 2200 pts	6th Net: 500 pts
2nd Gross: 2000 pts	7th Gross: 450 pts	2nd Net: 1600 pts	7th Net: 400 pts
3rd Gross: 1400 pts	8th Gross: 350 pts	3rd Net: 1200 pts	8th Net: 300 pts
4th Gross: 1000 pts	9th Place: 250 pts	4th Net: 900 pts	9th Net: 200 pts
5th Gross: 800 pts	10th Place: 150 pts	5th Net: 700 pts	10th Net: 100 pts

 

In 2026, Amateur players will continue to earn Order of Merit points within the handicap flight they play within for each event. 

The one small difference this year is to determine year-end prizing.  This year, rather than prizing be based on points per handicap division, a player’s points will accumulate into one OVERALL ORDER OF MERIT standings.  The player’s BEST 8 results by points will determine their Order of Merit points standing.

 And the TOP 30 VGT Members in the OVERALL ORDER OF MERIT for the 2026 season will win some fabulous prizing!!

With a number of members bouncing between handicap divisions last few years, we have determined this is the fairest system to determine the year-end prizing. Those players who bounced back and forth between handicap divisions had no chance of winning their division (or even prizing out). 

 In summary, in 2026, a player’s points will accumulate into one Overall Amateur Order of Merit Title, no matter if the player bounces from one handicap division to another.

ORDER OF MERIT TITLES BY DIVISION

We will continue to track OOM points within the four traditional handicap divisions so we can declare an Order of Merit Champion within each division. 

Handicap Divisions will be broken down as we have in the past:

Championship Division: 5.0 index & under. 

 Division One: 5.1 to 9.0

 Division Two: 9.1 to 14.0

 Division Three: 14.1 to 26.0

 A player that bounces between handicap divisions will earn ALL of their OOM points regardless of which division they played in for an event.  Their points will accumulate for prizing purposes within the “master” Order of Merit standings.  And their points will be allocated to the handicap division that they played most often in the season in order to determine the Order of Merit Champion in each division.

For Example:

 Player A plays in Division 1 a total of 5 events.  Earns 7,000 points total.

Player A plays in Division 2 a total of 3 events.  Earns 4,000 points total

Player A’s total points = 11,000 allocated to Division 1 for Player of the Year purposes.

 

PROGRESSIVE HOLE-IN-ONE JACKPOT RULES

1. In order to qualify for the Hole-in-one (H.I.O) JACKPOT offered at a VGT event, a player must be entered into the $20 skins game/hole-in-one pot for that event.  If there is no winner of the hole-in-one at VGT event, the current hole-in-one pot will carry over to the next event until we have a winner of the jackpot.  If by the end of the Winter Tour the jackpot has not been won, the current jackpot will be carried over into the Summer Tour schedule.
2. If the jackpot accumulates to $5,000, it will be cut-off at $5,000 and the first eligible person (see above) to score a hole-in-one on an eligible jackpot hole will receive the $5,000 payout.  A secondary Hole-in-one purse will be started as soon as the original jackpot reaches $5,000.  From the time the original purse reaches $5,000, moneys collected for the H.I.O purse will accumulate in this secondary pot while the first pot remains at $5,000. The secondary pot will continue to grow until the next eligible player scores a hole-in-one on the designated jackpot hole at a VGT event.  The maximum H.I.O purse paid out at any time will be $5,000, and once the pot has reached $5,000, a 3rd and 4th purse (and so on) will be established for future winners.
3. Due to the skill difference of Pros versus the Amateurs in the field, we level the playing field for the JACKPOT two ways:
   1. By allowing the Division 1,2 and 3 amateurs to tee-off a shorter designated tee-box at various times compared to Professionals and Championship Amateurs.
   2. VGT hosts numerous Amateur only events where Amateurs have a chance to win the JACKPOT without Pros in the field.