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 over $40,000 in Year-End Awards, Cash & Prizes!!

 

All players in the Open & Net Division will receive Order of Merit points for the 2026 Srixon / Cleveland Order of Merit and the 2026 RACE TO WAILEA.

 

For Amateur Divisions, a players BEST 8 RESULTS from the 2026 season will determine their position in the 2026 Srixon / Cleveland Order of Merit. For the Professional Division, all results will count towards the 2026 OOM.

 

Order of Merit (OOM) points will be awarded per flight as follows:

 

1st Place: 1500 pts	6th Place: 600 pts	11th Place: 300 pts	16th Net: 90 pts
2nd Place: 1,100 pts	7th Place: 500 pts	12th Place: 250 pts	17th Net: 80 pts
3rd Place: 1,000 pts	8th Place: 450 pts	13th Place: 200 pts	18th Net: 70 pts
4th Place: 800 pts	9th Place: 400 pts	14th Place: 150 pts	19th Net: 60 pts
5th Place: 700 pts	10th Place: 350 pts	15th Place 100 pts	20th Net: 50 pts

 

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

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.