The minimum odds for this tournament are 150/1, please ensure your selections add up to this or you will be asked to change your picks.
Thank you to everyone who entered US Open Last Man Standing, it was a tough tournament for the golfers and an even harder one for our LMS entrants! It was our biggest pot (£2,850) for the US Open and we are continuing to see plenty of new faces joining our competitions.
The next LMS competition is the The Open Championship which is starting next Thursday, 14th July 2022. We are really looking forward to it with it being back at the home of golf, St Andrews. With this being the last major of the year, it’s also the last LMS we’re running until next year so lets make it a huge prize pot!
Last year we managed 245 entries for The Open Championship where Chris Heyes pocketed a tidy £2,450 with Ian Poulter, Jon Rahm and Collin Morikawa, who will be looking to put in another great performance after his victory in the previous year.
We are hoping for another big turnout and are aiming for at least 375 entries for this one so please help to spread the word about LMS by sending the website onto your mates.
How Last Man Standing Works
The result of our recent Twitter poll (and including votes via text/email) was conclusive that the majority would prefer a top 3 payout. The results were 126 votes (63%) in favour of top 3 and 75 votes (37%) in favour of winner takes all. Therefore we will be trialling a top 3 payout for this competition and the split of the prize pot will be as follows:
1st – 75%
2nd – 20%
3rd – 5%
Pick 3 golfers from our The Open Championship entrants page with combined odds of 150/1+ (must be from this list – the odds have been taken from Bet365 on 07/07/2022):
E.g. Jose Maria Olazabal 70/1
Tiger Woods 50/1
Ruby Walsh 45/1
The lowest combined score wins i.e. if all 3 golfers finish on -10 your overall score would be -30. However if one of your golfers misses the cut, you’re out! (Almost 75% of the entries missed the cut in the Players, The Masters and PGA Championships whereas a brutal 87% missed the cut at the US Open so choose wisely!)
If the scores are tied at the end of Round 4, it will then be based on your lowest individual golfer.
E.g. if my golfers had the score -30 (-10, -10, -10) and Joe Bloggs had -30 (-15, -10, -5), Joe Bloggs would win as -15 would beat -10.
If both have the same lowest individual scorer, it would go to the 2nd lowest golfers etc.
Obviously if all 3 golfers have the same score, the pot will be split. The 2022 Players Championship was the first split pot in 4 years, with both winners pocketing £950 each.
If, for example, 3 people all finish tied in 1st place, the entire prize pot will be split equally between them i.e. 1st, 2nd and 3rd (100% of the prize pot) similarly to how ties in the actual competitions works.
Rules
The deadline for entries to be submitted is 8.00pm on Wednesday 13th July 2022 due to the time it takes to process the entries.
The entry fee to be part of the competition is £10 which needs to be paid across by 10.00pm on Wednesday 13th July 2022, otherwise your entry will be excluded from the competition.
The bank details are as follows:
Mr C Ashton
11-08-45
02167627
Please leave the name you have used in your entry as the bank reference so we can pick up .
The top 3 entries take the prize pot, unless it is a split pot as per “How LMS Works“.
The prize pot will be calculated on the following basis – the entry fees less our admin fee for managing and processing the tournament which will be capped at 10%.
We have also been thinking of a way to combat the late withdrawals before tee off as a lot of entrants would have preferred to have another golfer at the same odds rather than be refunded and be out of the competition before its even started.
Therefore, we are introducing another tick box on the entry form whereby you can opt for a late withdrawal before tee off to roll onto the next golfer with the same odds on our list. If this box is ticked, a late withdrawal before tee off will be automatically swapped to another golfer with the same odds. In the unlikely event that there is no other golfer on the same odds, it will roll onto the next golfer on the list e.g. if your golfer is 12/1 it will roll onto 14/1. If this box isn’t ticked, and one of your golfers is withdrawn prior to teeing off, you will get your money back.
Regardless of whether the box is ticked or not, if one of your golfers withdraws after teeing off, you’re out with no refund.
For any entries outside of the UK, please email us on admin@lms.golf or message us on the contact form on the website and we can arrange payment via paypal.
Entry
Entry to the 2022 The Open Championship Last Man Standing competition has now closed.
Please see the leaderboard to see all the selections.