Season 2023 Info - Qualifying Event starts November 6th

[Doyley]

Pretty version of this here (with pics)

TLDR:

• **NEW** You need to opt in to 3rd-Party Data Access in PGA TOUR 2K23 if you want your scores to be pulled into TGC Tours (see details below)
• site-wide Qualifying Event starts November 6th at The KEG Farm via the TGCTours (Special Events) society
• Main Tours are stick swing only set to a custom Master swing difficulty.
• Beer League is 3-click only set to a custom Master swing difficulty.
• Platinum Tour fields drop to a target of 50 players with normal events having no cut.
• Platinum Tour majors will have a regular cut with the rest of the field being back-filled via Qualifying Events.
• Elite/Kinetic/Challenge Circuit members can participate in qualifying events to get into Majors (50 slots available).
  

Full details below!

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­3rd-Party Data Access in PGA TOUR 2K23
­If you are going to participate on TGC Tours you will need to switch on the 3rd-Party Data Access option that was just added to the Social menu in PGA TOUR 2K23.  If you do not make this change your scores will not be pulled.

Profile Menu > Social > 3rd-Party Data Access > set to ON
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Qualifying Event - November 6th-12th
­Qualifying Event will be hosted at The KEG Farm and will be a 4-round event.
Society: TGCTours (Special Events)
Note:

• Qualifying Event registration will not open until our site has updated to the new season - this will not happen before November 5th. Once the site is ready, registration will open - we'll blast this news out when it's time
• There is no R1/R2 deadline - all 4 rounds need to be completed before the event ends in-game.

We will fill our tours as follows via this Qualifying Event
Platinum Tour: 45 slots
Elite Tour: 140 slots
Kinetic Tour: 140 slots
CC-A through CC-L: TBD pending participation numbers (130 per flight is the goal but will adjust accordingly)

If you do not earn a tour card from the site-wide Qualifying Event you will be automatically entered into our qualifying pool where you can try to earn a tour card weekly starting Week 2.
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Schedule
The first 4 weeks will look as follows
Week 1: Site-wide Qualifying Event (4 rounds only), Beer League & True Sim Tour start
Week 2: First set of normal events, Weekly qualifying starts
Week 3: Normal events, Promotion Event #1
Week 4: Normal events, backfill Challenge Circuit via weekly Qualifying Event (lots of tour cards available)

We will not fill the Pro tours completely via the initial Qualifying Event. There will be some slots left open for the Promotion Event in Week 3. This will give everyone (Platinum Tour excluded) with a tour card another chance to move up should you choose to participate.

Week 4 will see another large batch of tour cards available as we backfill the movement caused by the Promotion Event the previous week.

Our goal is to have a full set of balanced tours going into Week 5.

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­Platinum Tour - Format Changes

• Platinum Tour will be reduced to approximately 50 players to start and will try to keep to 70 max during the season
• Platinum Tour normal events will have no cut
• During Major events we will hold qualifiers that will fill these fields to 100+ players (there will be cuts on Majors)
• Major Qualifying events will have 50 slots available - all main tour card holders .
• Voluntary Demotions will be available for Platinum Tour members that are struggling during Promotion Event weeks.
• Qualifiers that make it to a Major event cannot get demotion marks - you can earn promotion marks
• Any Qualifier that makes a cut in a major can request a fast track to Platinum by emailing [e-mail]
  

Other Format Changes

• Beer League will be 3-click only set on Master difficulty.

TGCT Difficulty Settings
Swing Difficulty: Master
Swing Timing: On
Distance Control Meter (Platinum/Elite/Kinetic/Challenge Circuit): Off
Distance Control Meter (Beer League): On
Distance Control Assist: Off
Putt Preview: 0
Course Yardage: Book Only
Pro Vision: All off
Scout Camera: UI Off
Lie Grid: Open
Green Grid: Open
Pin Preference: Open
Aim Marker: Marker Only
Wind Display (Platinum/Elite/Kinetic): Meter Only
Wind Display (Challenge Circuit/Beer League): Open
Distance Display: Carry
Swing Input (Platinum/Elite/Kinetic/Challenge Circuit): Swing Stick
Swing Input (Beer League): 3-Click
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Submitting 2K23 Courses/Porting Courses
Submitting New PGA TOUR 2K23 Courses
Designers can now submit new courses (PGA TOUR 2K23 only) to our database.

Porting PGA TOUR 2K21 Courses
If you have ported a 2K21 course into PGA TOUR 2K23 and it was approved here at TGC Tours, you can port those directly into our TGCT 2K23 database yourself by going to your My Designer Page.
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­Other Tours
­True Sim Tour
The True Sim Tour is the toughest tour available at TGC Tours. Main feature is the lack of grids on the green. You may play the True Sim Tour alongside one of the Main Tours/Beer League or as your only tour.

To get a TST card you must go to More Tours > True Sim Tour > Join Tour from our main menu on www.tgctours.com

TST Difficulty Settings:
Swing Difficulty: Master
Swing Timing: On
Distance Control Meter: Off
Distance Control Assist: Off
Putt Preview: 0
Course Yardage: On
Pro Vision: All off
Scout Camera: Off
Lie Grid: Off
Green Grid: Off
Pin Preference: Open
Aim Marker: Marker Only
Wind Display: Meter Only
Distance Display: Carry
Swing Input: Swing Stick
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­­Beer League
The Beer League is for those that like to use the 3-Click swing method. It will have similar settings to the Challenge Circuit on our main tours.

You cannot play on our main tours and the Beer League at the same time.

Currently there is no promotion/demotion within the Beer League but if participation grows we'll look to add this feature by adding a second tour.

To join the Beer League you must edit your TGCT profile and click the check box at the bottom to opt in (see pic below).
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[axelvonfersen]

Bring it on you deadbeats, prepare to get Axelled next week.

[Cecil Harvey]

gdog! Rocher Tour is back!

[rob4590]

What's the reasoning behind the very small Platinum tour Scott?

[Doyley]

Nov 1, 2022 14:25:03 GMT -5 rob4590 said:

What's the reasoning behind the very small Platinum tour Scott?

Extremely large skill gap from top to bottom.  The top 35% rarely worried about cuts.  The bottom 100 or so never contended for wins. This gives those 100 or so a much better experience on Elite and lessens the amount of golfers we have in Platinum-atory.

[mctrees02]

Can we fix Plat to 48 cards and also draft them into 4 person teams? If you miss 3 events in a rolling 8 week period, you lose your head card.

[rob4590]

Nov 1, 2022 14:47:43 GMT -5 mctrees02 said:

Can we fix Plat to 48 cards and also draft them into 4 person teams? If you miss 3 events in a rolling 8 week period, you lose your head card.

I know this was tongue-in-cheek - but the missing events bit does need to be addressed IMO - by the end of 2k21, there were probably 60-70 people with Platinum cards, who hadn't played the game for many months / year or more. If you don't play any events for (say) 3 months (13 weeks) then you should lose your card, and have to go back to qualifying school to get one back, not just resume where you were.......

[rob4590]

Nov 1, 2022 14:30:10 GMT -5 Doyley said:

Nov 1, 2022 14:25:03 GMT -5 rob4590 said:

What's the reasoning behind the very small Platinum tour Scott?

Extremely large skill gap from top to bottom.  The top 35% rarely worried about cuts.  The bottom 100 or so never contended for wins. This gives those 100 or so a much better experience on Elite and lessens the amount of golfers we have in Platinum-atory.

Fair enough - although as someone mostly in Plat-atory myself, I would prefer to compete against the best if possible......

What this will do though is distort the WGR - those in Plat will gain so many points for low finishes compared with the top of Elite. Would suggest tweaking the tour ratings to narrow that gap somewhat....

[mctrees02]

Nov 1, 2022 15:04:43 GMT -5 rob4590 said:

Nov 1, 2022 14:30:10 GMT -5 Doyley said:

Extremely large skill gap from top to bottom.  The top 35% rarely worried about cuts.  The bottom 100 or so never contended for wins. This gives those 100 or so a much better experience on Elite and lessens the amount of golfers we have in Platinum-atory.

Fair enough - although as someone mostly in Plat-atory myself, I would prefer to compete against the best if possible......

What this will do though is distort the WGR - those in Plat will gain so many points for low finishes compared with the top of Elite. Would suggest tweaking the tour ratings to narrow that gap somewhat....

sounds like we may need to switch to Rocher points

[Doyley]

Nov 1, 2022 15:04:43 GMT -5 rob4590 said:

Nov 1, 2022 14:30:10 GMT -5 Doyley said:

Extremely large skill gap from top to bottom.  The top 35% rarely worried about cuts.  The bottom 100 or so never contended for wins. This gives those 100 or so a much better experience on Elite and lessens the amount of golfers we have in Platinum-atory.

Fair enough - although as someone mostly in Plat-atory myself, I would prefer to compete against the best if possible......

What this will do though is distort the WGR - those in Plat will gain so many points for low finishes compared with the top of Elite. Would suggest tweaking the tour ratings to narrow that gap somewhat....

I would argue that if they made it to platinum in the first place, a low finish there is still a high skilled player - so any WGR points are earned.  The points trail out on the bottom end 50+ so it's not going to distort too much.

[Cecil Harvey]

Feels like 2017 again...

[zooby97]

Nov 1, 2022 15:01:42 GMT -5 rob4590 said:

Nov 1, 2022 14:47:43 GMT -5 mctrees02 said:

Can we fix Plat to 48 cards and also draft them into 4 person teams? If you miss 3 events in a rolling 8 week period, you lose your head card.

I know this was tongue-in-cheek - but the missing events bit does need to be addressed IMO - by the end of 2k21, there were probably 60-70 people with Platinum cards, who hadn't played the game for many months / year or more. If you don't play any events for (say) 3 months (13 weeks) then you should lose your card, and have to go back to qualifying school to get one back, not just resume where you were.......

I’m just a CC player but I agree 100%. The line should be drawn in the sand…

[Cecil Harvey]

Nov 1, 2022 15:01:42 GMT -5 rob4590 said:

Nov 1, 2022 14:47:43 GMT -5 mctrees02 said:

Can we fix Plat to 48 cards and also draft them into 4 person teams? If you miss 3 events in a rolling 8 week period, you lose your head card.

I know this was tongue-in-cheek - but the missing events bit does need to be addressed IMO - by the end of 2k21, there were probably 60-70 people with Platinum cards, who hadn't played the game for many months / year or more. If you don't play any events for (say) 3 months (13 weeks) then you should lose your card, and have to go back to qualifying school to get one back, not just resume where you were.......

I'm not seeing the problem?

Someone being inactive holding a Platinum Card doesn't prevent others from earning one through promotion or qualifying (if that will be an option).

If they take a long break and come back and their skill level is still high enough to maintain it, then they clearly still should have it.

If they come back and aren't quite as good they will eventually demote and lose the card that way.

[bubbadave]

Nov 1, 2022 13:59:58 GMT -5 Doyley said:

3rd-Party Data Access in PGA TOUR 2K23
­If you are going to participate on TGC Tours you will need to switch on the 3rd-Party Data Access option that was just added to the Social menu in PGA TOUR 2K23.  If you do not make this change your scores will not be pulled.

Profile Menu > Social > 3rd-Party Data Access > set to ON

This should actually be:

Profile Menu > Settings > Social > 3rd-Party Data Access > set to ON

Hitting the Social Tab brings up a different screen than the one needed.

[trentmcneely]

Limiting plat to that field size is essentially going to kick out xbox anyway. Why not just put it on legend?