What does T1 mean on a leaderboard?

Tied for first. Two or more players are level at the top and share the position; the next player is third if two share first, fourth if three do.

If two players tie for first, is the next player second or third?

Third. Standard competition ranking counts the players ahead, and two are ahead of the next player.

Does Parful break ties automatically?

Only when the competition is set to countback, which is applied on stroke play and Stableford leaderboards. The default is shared position, and any setting that cannot apply to a leaderboard, such as sudden death, also shares.

Do tied players in a season standings share the points?

They share the rank. On a points standings both players earn the points for the position they share; the standings then applies its own listed tiebreakers to the season total, and shares again if none separates them.

Why are two players in a tie shown in a particular order?

Alphabetical order keeps the table stable. It is display only and awards nothing.

Competition structures

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Shared positions

Also called Shared position, Tied position, Joint position, T1, Standard competition ranking.

A shared position is what a leaderboard shows when two or more players finish level and no tiebreak separates them: they take the same rank and the next player takes the position after the gap, so two players tied for first are followed by third (1, 1, 3). Parful shares rather than inventing an order.

Ranking: Standard competition ranking: 1, 1, 3, not 1, 1, 2
Leaderboards: The default tiebreaker on a Parful competition
Fallback: Used whenever a configured tiebreak cannot apply
Season standings: Level players share unless a listed tiebreaker separates them
Round robin: Available as a setting; equal points share the rank
Knockouts: Never; one side must advance

How shared positions work

Standard competition ranking gives every player in a tie the position the first of them would have had, and skips as many positions as there are tied players. Two players on 68 are both first; the player on 69 is third, because two players finished ahead of them. Three players on 70 after that are joint fourth, and the next player is seventh. This is the convention on every professional leaderboard (T1, T4) and it is the one Parful uses.

The alternative, dense ranking (1, 1, 2), understates how many players finished ahead and is rarely used in golf. Parful never produces it.

A shared position is a real result. In a prize competition it usually means a dead heat, settled by the club's prize rules; in a season standings it means both players earn the points for that place.

When Parful shares instead of breaking a tie

A competition on Parful carries one tiebreaker setting. Countback breaks ties on the cards and is applied automatically on stroke play and Stableford leaderboards. Shared position is the other leaderboard option and the default: level players share.

Some settings exist for match play brackets and cannot be computed on a leaderboard. Sudden death and replay both describe something the players do on the course, not something the cards contain, so when a competition with one of those settings produces a level stroke play or Stableford result the leaderboard shares the position rather than inventing an order. The setting keeps its meaning for the knockout the same club might run; it simply has nothing to say about a medal.

Round robin and group tables can be set to shared position too. Sides on equal points then take the same rank, and the head-to-head and net difference rules are not applied.

Season standings

Season standings share positions under the same convention. Two players level on total points, or level on total and rounds counted in an aggregate, take the same rank unless one of the tiebreakers the club listed actually separates them. A tiebreaker that is listed but returns no difference is not a reason to rank one player above the other; nor is the order the rows happen to sort in.

Standings created before this rule was ratified in August 2026 keep the ranking they were closed under, so a published season is never restated. Every standings created since, and every one produced by season rollover, shares.

Players who are eligible but have not yet posted a round are padded onto the bottom of the table for completeness. They are not level with anyone and show no rank.

How Parful runs it

On a leaderboard the tied rows show the same position and the tie is visible. On a season standings the tied rows show the same rank and the next distinct result takes the position after the gap. The display order inside a tie is deterministic (name order) so the table does not jump around, but that order is never a placing and never awards a prize.

A club that wants ties broken chooses countback on the competition, or lists tiebreakers on the standings. Where nothing is chosen, or the chosen rule cannot apply, Parful shares.

Worked example

A worked example: a six-player leaderboard with two ties

A net stroke play competition set to shared position. Two players tie for first and three tie for fourth.

Position	Player	Net	Players ahead	Note
1	Wes	67	0	Shares first
1	Xan	67	0	Shares first
3	Yara	69	2	Third, not second
4	Zed	71	3	Shares fourth
4	Abe	71	3	Shares fourth
4	Bea	71	3	Shares fourth

Each position equals the number of players ahead plus one. Yara has two players ahead so she is third; a seventh player on 72 would be seventh, with six ahead.

If the same competition were set to countback, Wes and Xan would be compared over the back nine and the leaderboard would show 1 and 2, marking which stretch decided it.
The order Wes then Xan within the tie is alphabetical display order and carries no meaning.

Common variants