Competition structures
Parful runs thisAwards and podiums
Also called Champion and runner-up, Podium, Prize positions, Competition winner.
A competition's awards are the champion, runner-up and third place taken from the prize positions on the leaderboard, plus a best net award when the competition is ranked on something other than net. Prize positions skip players who are not eligible for prizes and let tied players share, so the awards can differ from the raw finishing order.
- Awards
- Champion, runner-up, third, best net
- Derived from
- Prize position, not raw position
- Best net
- Shown only when the ranking axis is not net
- Ties
- Share the prize position
- Flights
- A podium per flight
- Skill prizes
- Assigned by the admin, never derived from scores
The ranking axis and the prize position
Every leaderboard is ranked on one axis: gross strokes, net strokes, Stableford points, quota or skins. The competition's format sets the default and the organizer can choose a winner basis that overrides it, so a Stableford competition can be ranked on gross if the club wants a scratch champion. Awards are read from that same ranking, so the podium can never disagree with the leaderboard the players saw.
The raw position on the board and the prize position are different numbers. A guest who is not eligible for prizes may lead the board for everyone to see, but the prize position skips them: the first eligible player is prize position 1. Tied players share a prize position, and the next prize position after a shared second is fourth. The champion is whoever holds prize position 1, the runner-up prize position 2. A shared position produces a shared award, with both names on it.
Podium and best net
The results podium lists first, second and third on the ranking axis, with the score written in that axis's units: 74 for gross, Net 69, 38 pts, +3 on quota. When the axis is anything other than net, the podium adds a best net award for the lowest net score in the field, because most clubs post both. The best net award is left off when the same person is already first on the headline axis; nobody is given two awards for the same card.
A competition played in flights gets a podium per flight, computed from that flight's players only, so the B flight has its own first, second and third alongside the overall podium.
Overriding a winner
Committees sometimes need to award a prize to someone other than the player the scores put first: a disqualification found after the board went up, a one-prize-per-player rule, or a player who declined. Parful keeps the factual rankings stored exactly as scored and applies the override on top. The rule is promote and shift: the chosen player becomes first, and everyone who was at or above their old slot moves down one place. Season standings points then credit the promoted player as the first-place finisher. The factual order is never rewritten, so the record still shows who shot what.
How Parful derives it
For a competition decided on a single day and ranked on a leaderboard, Parful derives the champion and runner-up at close-out from the leaderboard's prize positions and offers them as prize rows next to the outing's own low gross and low net. Round robins, knockouts and cups are decided across many matches, so their winners come from the standings table, the bracket or the cup board instead. The results email carries the podium, with best net where the axis allows it and a per-flight podium where flights exist.
Skill prizes are different. Closest to the pin, long drive, longest putt, straightest drive and any custom type from the club's skill prize library are assigned by the admin to the player who won them on the day. They are never derived from hole scores, and they can carry season points of their own.
Worked example
A worked example: a gross competition with a guest and a best net
Six players in a stroke play competition ranked on gross. Gus is a guest who is not eligible for prizes. Awards are read from the prize position, and best net is shown because the axis is gross.
| Player | Gross | Net | Board position | Prize position | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gus (guest) | 74 | 70 | 1 | Not eligible | None |
| Ana | 75 | 69 | 2 | 1 | Champion |
| Ben | 77 | 72 | 3 | 2 | Runner-up |
| Cal | 78 | 65 | 4 | 3 | Third and best net |
| Dee | 79 | 66 | 5 | 4 | None |
| Eve | 81 | 68 | 6 | 5 | None |
- Had Ben and Cal both shot 77 they would share prize position 2 and the runner-up award would carry both names; Dee would then hold prize position 4 and there would be no third.
- If the committee then promoted Dee to champion, the effective order for season points would be Dee, Ana, Ben, Cal, Eve, while the stored rankings still show Ana on 75 ahead of Ben on 77.
Common variants
- Net ranked with a low gross award
- The mirror of the example: rank on net and post a low gross side award. On Parful the best net side award appears only when the axis is not net; a gross award on a net competition is recorded by the admin as a prize.
- One prize per player
- A club rule that a player takes only their highest award. Parful's outing prizes allow multiple winners by default and offer one prize per player as an option; on competitions the admin uses an override.
- Countback-decided podium
- Ties on the board are broken by countback before prize positions are assigned. Players still tied after the eighteenth share the prize position.