Notes from the organizer: Thanks for joining the APGA Tour for the 2026 season. Your virtual card and all season info can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hvpd9iYODZXcUlxMwjdbZjl-llgqNeEDAEG_GcDrr8U/edit?gid=1427875526#gid=1427875526&range=A1:E1
We begin the season with what is affectionately known as golf’s fifth major - The Players Championship, held at one of the world’s most prestigious courses, Sawgrass. The Player’s Championship rewards controlled and calculated play with taking risks at the right moment (and, as always, an element of luck).
In Apterous terms, that means our opening tournament will be played across four rounds with more simple scoring rules to ease everyone in.
For anyone that’s new, all tournaments are played across four ‘golf rounds’, each round is played across an Attack against Prune with round 1-18 counting towards your 'golf round’. This means that, for the most-part, rounds 19 and 20 are totally disregarded and mean nothing (aside from the final round of each tournament where they act as play-off holes if needed).
Every round of your attack is therefore a ‘hole’ and on each hole scoring criteria is set to par as per real golf. The lowest score to par over the hole tournament wins.
So onto Round 1. In R1 the par for every hole is 4 and your score is the amount of numbers from the five chosen you use in your solution i.e. the fewer numbers you use in your solve, the better.
Only exact solves count, so it’s all or bust with a stinking double bogey awaiting anyone who fails to correctly solve (even if you correctly solve to within 1).
Full scoring per hole is:
Use just 2 numbers = Eagle (-2)
Use 3 numbers = Birdie (-1)
Use 4 numbers = Par (0)
Use all 5 numbers = Bogey (+1)
Anything other than an exact solve = Double Bogey (+2)
So for example, if the selection is 10, 8, 4, 3 and 1 and the target is 40, you can simply solve with 10x4, having used only two of the numbers to score an eagle. Alternatively, if you solve in this way - 8x4+10+1-3 - that would also be a correct solve, but having used all 5 numbers and you would get a bogey.
As said earlier, with a real golf round being over 18 holes, only rounds 1-18 will contribute towards your score. Round 19 and 20 are completely disregarded.
SPECIAL HOLE - The 17th hole at Sawgrass famously boasts an iconic island green. In the first round this hole comes into play as a ‘doubler’. This means whatever score you get on this hole will count as doubly good, or doubly bad. Bag an eagle (-2) and it will double to a lovely -4, conversely, have a shocker and hit a double bogey (+2) and you’ll score a tournament scuppering quadruple bogey (+4).
Any question, just ask. Good luck!
Runs from: 1 – 7 March 2026. Format: Junior Numbers Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.
Fixtures: 0. Completed: 0.
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