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Originally Posted by NoMo50
I will try to answer your question, and hopefully not muddy the waters. There are 2 types of points...placement points, and reservation points. Placement points are derived from a golfer's status, i.e, Resident, Guest, Enhanced Member (old Priority), and Enhanced Member Guest. Reservation points come from tee times granted. Keep in mind that both types of points only come into play when someone is making a Request via the tee time system. Tee times obtained 1-3 days prior to the day of play are considered "open tee times," and are not subject to either type of points.
Placement points are the first value considered when the tee time system's algorithm goes to work. They are broken down as follows: Enhanced Member = 1 point; Enhanced Guest = 2 points; Resident Member = 6 points; Resident Guest = 7 points. Based on these point values, an average of Placement Points is calculated for your group. A group with a lower average of Placement Points will receive priority over a higher number group.
Placement Points come into play mostly on Championship courses, primarily because being an Enhanced Member has no bearing on play at Executive courses. However, Placement Points can still affect the priority of tee times granted on Executive courses if a request includes Guests.
The whole purpose of Placement Points is to ensure that those residents who pay extra for an Enhanced membership will always receive priority in tee time allocation over those who do not pay extra. It also places any request that includes Guests lower in priority than those that include residents only.
Once the algorithm churns through the sorting based on Placement Points, it goes to work on prioritizing requests by looking at Reservation Points. That is a whole new ball of cheese.
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Great explanation!!!
Placement points were what confused me because I think I saw a post where someone said that he tries to keep his group point average below 3 points. Wouldn't that be impossible if everyone has 6 placement points to start with?
So if I play 5 times in the past week, I have 5 points for playing and 6 placement points for a total of 11 points?
And If I played 2 times last week, I would have 8 points?
And if I didn't play at all, I would still have 6 points?