COST & ENTRY FEE
The full season costs $142 per player — $13 covers SGT's admin fee, and the remaining $129 goes into the season's competition pool. Payment is due in full before Week 1 begins.
THE WEEKLY SCHEDULE
Each event typically runs Monday to Sunday, with some overlap between weeks. You don't have to play every event, but consistency is encouraged. If you know you won't be able to make a week, give the admin team a heads-up as early as possible — ideally by end of day Tuesday. The earlier you let us know, the smoother the logistics for everyone.
PARTNERS & TEAMS
For partner events, you'll select your partner one week in advance. If you haven't paired up 24 hours before the event window opens, you'll be randomly matched with another unpaired player.
For larger team formats — three-player scrambles and group events — teams are either pre-assigned or randomly drawn. The format details are posted before each event so you'll always know what to expect.
SUBSTITUTIONS
The admin team maintains a substitution bench of trusted players for situations when someone can't make it. Substitution requests should come in by Tuesday. Here's how no-shows are handled depending on the format:
A no-show gets a blind-draw replacement from the substitution bench. The sub's scorecard counts for that team.
A no-show results in the team forfeiting that week. Choose your partner wisely.
STREAMING REQUIREMENTS
You must live stream your round each week to YouTube, and submit the link via that week's scorecard on mashupgolf.com before you tee off. YouTube has a 24-hour wait period before a new account can go live, so sign up ahead of time if you don't already have one.
For team events, you have two options: A) one member streams the entire round with every player visible on camera, or B) each player streams their own view of the match.
New to streaming? Check out this and this OBS tutorial, set up a test stream and post it in Discord for feedback, or come to the pre-season players meeting. Full setup help also lives on the Requirements page.
Rounds played without a stream are disqualified from that week's pot. If you forget to stream, you can replay with a stream running, but the worse of your two rounds counts. If a stream was properly attempted but had technical issues (frame drops, internet hiccups, etc.), the admin team decides case by case — that can mean a replay or the score standing as-is. Test your setup thoroughly, and consider monitoring your stream from a second device (phone or tablet) while you play.
HANDICAPPING
The league uses its own handicap, called MashCAP — the average of the best 40% of the rounds in your SGT Combo log. It fixes an imbalance in SGT's COMBO handicap: a player with 20 rounds counts their best 12 (60%), while a player with 48 rounds counts their best 16 (only 33%). MashCAP instead always counts roughly 40% of your total rounds, matching the USGA's standard. You can see your own MashCAP, and how it's calculated round by round, on the Handicaps page.
Each week, the field is also normalized so the best player in the field plays to scratch (0 handicap), with everyone else adjusting relative to them. This keeps the competition balanced regardless of skill level.
Handicap allowance varies by format — Solo Ringer plays at 85%, and team formats range from 70–80% depending on how many players' scores count toward the team total each hole, matching standard USGA guidance for that format type.
SCORING & DISQUALIFICATIONS
We hold everyone to the same standard. Here are the situations that result in disqualification from that week's competition:
Interrupted or Incomplete Rounds are disqualified unless a genuine emergency occurred.
SimDrop (virtual ball drop) requires at least one real escape attempt first. Skipping that attempt or misusing SimDrop is not allowed.
Rounds played without a valid live stream are disqualified from the competition pot — see Streaming Requirements above for the full replay and technical-issue policy.
Missing or incorrect data tiles on stream result in disqualification.
Cheating of any kind results in immediate disqualification.
Practice shots taken during a teammate's or opponent's turn: first offense is a warning, second offense is a 2-stroke penalty.
Scoring concerns — phantom reads, system glitches, anything that looks off — should be reported publicly in the Discord with the admin team tagged. Admins review all issues and make the final call.
COURSE SETUP
All players use identical tee boxes each week — no exceptions. Courses are selected to play between 6,200 and 6,700 yards. Handicaps are calibrated to account for skill variation across the entire field, keeping the competition level for everyone from scratch to high handicap.
TIEBREAKERS
The default is to break the tie, not split the pot. Each week, the tiebreaker method is announced before the event begins — most often a scorecard playoff or an aggregate net total comparison — so everyone knows exactly how ties will be resolved going in.
END OF SEASON EVENT
At the end of the regular season, we will transition into an End of Season Event.
The exact format, number of rounds, and any team or seeding structure (e.g. Member-Member, Invitational-style) depend on how many players are in the field that season — details are announced once the roster is set.
CODE OF CONDUCT
Golf is a gentlemen's game. We expect civility and respectful treatment toward every participant in the league — win or lose. Disrespectful behavior toward other players, substitutes, or the admin team may result in exclusion from the season.