Policy for Torrey Tournament Player Priority Assignment (5-30-25)

The purpose of our Player Priority Assignment system is to select players for Torrey Pines tournaments when an event is oversubscribed. Our priority assignment software is designed to give each member a fair opportunity to play in Torrey events by giving higher priorities to those who have played in a Torrey event less recently (versus more recently). Normally this will mean that a member who signs up to play every Torrey event will miss no more than one or two consecutive events.

Each member has a date recorded by our website that is the last tournament played at Torrey Pines. These dates are downloaded for each member signed up for a tournament and Excel spreadsheets with embedded formulas are used to rank players based on his “last-Torrey-play-date”. Those who have last-play-dates furthest from the tournament date have higher priority to play. For members with the same last-play-date, a random number generator is used to determine priority.

The highest priorities are automatically given to board members as well as marshals, divit-eers, and other volunteers who request a priority assignment for a specific tournament. This ensures that those members who give their valuable personal time to support our club are rightfully rewarded.

If a member is selected to play, his tee time assignment may be affected if he has multiple pace-of-play violations. Members who have three or more incidents of slow play will be assigned later tee times. Members who no-show or late cancel within 2 days of an event will receive a last-Torrey-play-date for the tournament.

A special condition exists for those tournaments spread over two days, such as the Wednesday/Thursday weekday play. In these cases the waitlist is split into three brackets (Day-1, Day-2, and No-Preference) and players are ranked based on last-Torrey-play-date. A player may request to be moved from one waitlist to another, but surrenders their original priority and is assigned the lowest priority for that bracket.

Lastly, when the Torrey Pines courses are in high demand after a special event, such as the Farmers Insurance Open, our Player Priority Assignment system will limit members to play in only one tournament in the weeks following the special event. This allows the maximum amount of members to play when the Torrey courses are at their best.