How To Run A Masters Pool - A Step By Step Guide
March 18, 2024 by
Running a successful Masters Pool should be simple to set up, fun to participate in, and easy to manage. Following the easy steps on How to Run a Masters Pool detailed below will help you achieve exactly that.
Best of all, it’s easy, free, and fast with Easy Office Pools.
How to Run A Master Pool - 4 Easy Steps
- Determining your Masters Pool Format
- Sending Masters Pool Invitations
- Performing Masters Pool Maintenance
- Tracking Scoring on your Masters Pool Leaderboard
Step 1: Determine your Masters Pool Format
No need to make this harder than it needs to be. Many pool experiences are ruined due to formats being too hard to understand and even harder to track.
Easy Office Pools has Pre-Set format options and allows you to fully customize your pool if desired. Our most popular Masters pool format is Pick 6, Use 4. This is the default format when you setup a Masters Pool online with our software, where everyone picks from 6 tiers of golfers and adds their to par score together to determine the winner.
Different format options you could think about using ...
- Pick 6, Use 4 (the Most Popular Masters Pool Format) Everyone picks a team of 6 golfers using an online picksheet broken into 6 tiers by world rank. The best 4 of 6 to par scores make up your team score. Lowest score wins. Cut Golfers get 80 for rounds 3&4.
- Pick x, Use y (completely customized selection setup) Same as above format, except you can change the number of golfers that everyone picks and decide to use only a subset of the best scores or all the scores. If you decide to count the scores from every golfer, you’ll have to be prepared for many people to have a lower chance at winning once the cut is established after round 2, because any selected golfer that misses the cut won’t play rounds 3&4 and won’t generate scores nor earn any money. See how to customize scores used here.
- Snake Draft (everyone drafts x number of golfers)
Run a Masters snake draft with your closest people. Easily done over text or in person, determine a random draft order and everyone picks a golfer for their team. Here would be the snake draft order for 4 people, each choosing 4 golfers: 1,2,3,4,4,3,2,1,1,2,3,4,4,3,2,1
Once a golfer is selected, they can’t be selected by anyone else. Use either to par scores or money earned to score your pool.
--> Here is a list of golfers in the 2024 Masters you can use for your draft.
--> After your draft, you can key in all the picks and get a live leaderboard link you can send everyone to track your pool scoring. - Masters Salary Cap Format Assign each golfers a dollar value and each person can’t exceed a total salary. Similar to how you’d pick your teams on DraftKings or FanDuel or other daily fantasy golf site. We don’t currently manage this type of format on Easy Office Pools so this one would have to be done manually using a spreadsheet setup.
- More Options / Ideas If you want to research even more options to run your pool check out our 4 Simple Masters Pool Ideas article.
Step 2: Send Masters Pool Invitations
- With Easy Office Pools, Pool Admin will be provided a Join My Masters Pool link that can be shared with potential participants. (friends, family, co-workers, customers etc…)
- Posting the link on your social media is a great way to increase the volume of pool entries making it even more exciting to be part of.
- Your Master Pool link will take them directly to your pool picksheet.
- Participants easily select their picks and submit entries. No emails, no spreadsheets and no headaches for the pool admin!
- If you want to manage your pool manually, you can download the Masters pool spreadsheet resource
- No experience required for participating.
- Often people are weary of joining a pool because they think it’s a complicated process and have never done it before. But technology makes it super simple. All the have to do is pick their golfers from an online form and then follow the automatic updating pool leaderboard
Step 3: Masters Pool Maintenance
- Your poolies are bound to need some last minute team adjustments. No need to worry, they can edit their team up to the Masters pool entry deadline.
- Upon submitting picks each entrant will receive a confirmation email and a link to edit their picks.
- Pool Admins have full access to make any pool edits or adjustments required
Step 4: Scoring your Masters Pool
- Easy Office Pools does all of the scoring for you and your poolies can enjoy up to the minute scoring on your live leaderboard
- You decide how to score your pool. Here are options:
- To Par - simply add all golfers to par scores. Whoever has lowest total wins
- Money Earnings - whoever has the most money earnings across all golfers wins
- Daily Bests - use the top 4 or 5 scores from each day to form your team score.
- Please note, the Leaderboard will only show who (team name) has entered the pool and how many entrants are in your Masters Pool.
- The actual players picked by each entrant can be viewed once play is underway.
- Here is an example leaderboard link and screenshot example below
Best of all, Free Online Masters Pools available for small pools!
- Masters Pools with 4 or fewer entrants are free.
- Unlock Unlimited Entries with one payment of $20.
- There are no fees for the participants. Pool admin will pay a one time fee of $20 during pool set up and that’s it. No hidden fees, no blocked content and no upselling.
Collecting Entry Fees
- Easy Office Pools does not collect pool entry fees or administer any payouts. Our software is for entertainment purposes only. We do not endorse any gambling.
There you have it. We invite you to give the software a test drive - setup a free online PGA Pool for any upcoming tournament leading up to the Masters. There you can familiarize yourself with all of the many great features Easy Office Pools has created to make running and participating in pools EASY and FUN.
Happy Pooling!
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How do you handle players picked that do not make the weekend cut ?
Hi Bryan – Cut golfers are assigned an 80 or the Highest Carded Round for rounds 3 and 4. The admin can choose from those two options. Hope that clarifies! – Sean