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.
It’s the final Last Man Standing of 2023 and it’s the big one, The Open! 2023 has been an amazing year for us, we’ve given away an incredible £30,710 so far across 4 competitions! Let’s finish 2023 with another £10,000 prize pot!
Our next competition is The Open and it starts this Thursday, 20th July 2023. Following on from our trial of launching the competition slightly later, we’re going to keep the change going forward as it didn’t change our entry numbers. It does mean though it’s a much quicker turn around so get your entries in before the deadline!
Last year we managed 479 entries (before withdrawals, 470 after withdrawals) for the The Open. We would usually say that we are aiming for more than last year’s competition however after having 1,200 entries for The Masters, we are aiming for 1,000+ entries this time around to try and have a £10,000 prize pot.
Greg Brechin won £3,175 in last years competition with a final score of -43 after selecting Cameron Smith (-20), Rory McIlroy (-18) and Joohyung Kim (-5).
Please help to spread the word about LMS by sending the website onto your mates and sharing our various social media posts.
As usual, we will be running another free entry competition for this tournament, keep an eye on our Twitter for details on how to enter!
The winner will be announced at 1pm on Wednesday 19th July giving the winner 7 hours to select their picks.
How Last Man Standing Works
There will be a payout for the top 3 places and the prize pot will be split as follows
1st – 75%
2nd – 20%
3rd – 5%
Pick 3 golfers from our The Open – Golfers & Odds with combined odds of 150/1+ (must be from this list – the odds have been taken from Paddy Power on 15/07/2023):
E.g. Jack Nicklaus 15/1
Tiger Woods 40/1
Ben Stokes 100/1
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 70% of the entries missed the cut in the 2023 The Masters LMS!
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. We have only had three split pots since starting Last Man Standing in 2018. These were at The Players Championship in 2022 and 2023, in addition to The Masters LMS where we had a 5 way split!
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 19th July 2023 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 19th July 2023, 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%.
Late Withdrawal Replacement
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.
All the best with your picks,
Cole & Alex
Entry
Entry to the 2023 The Open Last Man Standing competition has now closed.
Please see the leaderboard to see all the selections.