1. The game is free to enter, and you may enter as many teams as you wish. Up to ten teams may be managed under a single login. If you wish to manage more than ten teams, you will need to register more than one login ID.
2. Each team receives $4000 to start. (fantasy money only!)
3. Each team has 4 roster spots to fill. If any slots are vacant at the time of the freeze, that team's tournament score will be zero. However, if the invalidity appears to be due to a technical glitch, the Commissioner (i.e., Guru) will exercise judgment in restoring the roster to a valid state which appears to be consistent with the intent of the manager. If a manager believes that his roster is incorrectly specified, it is that manager's responsibility to alert the Commissioner as soon as possible. The Commissioner may refuse to consider roster adjustments after the first round of a tournament is completed.
4. Each teams gets 4 trades to start. 2 additional trades are added after each subsequent freeze. Only a sell transaction counts as a trade. A buy transaction does not count as a trade, so you can set your initial roster without using any trades. (Clarification: Prior to the first tournament of the season, trades will be unlimited, so you can set your initial roster without regard to trading. Once the first roster freeze occurs, all teams will have their trade capacity reset to 4. The weekly addition of 2 trades will begin with the second freeze.)
5. For each team that has the tournament winner, a bonus trade will be awarded at the end of the tournament. This trade will be added to your total available trades, and may be used at any time thereafter. If an invalid roster (i.e., a roster with less than four golfers) includes the winning golfer, no bonus trade will be awarded.
6. You may purchase extra trades each week, paid for by reducing your roster cash. For any week, each extra trade will cost $100. There is no need to purchase more than 2 trades in any week, since you have only four roster slots and 2 trades are allocated each week for free. If you need more than 4 trades, reset your roster to the last freeze, and retrade.
7. Each tournament roster will freeze at the scheduled tee time of the first round. If the opening tee time is delayed due to weather, the freeze time will not be adjusted unless the entire first day is postponed, in which case trading will be unlocked until the scheduled opening tee time of the following day. Rosters will remain frozen throughout the tournament. You cannot make daily trades during a tournament.
8. Tournament scoring is calculated by hole, relative to par. If you have a golfer who is not active for a round, he is ignored for that round's scoring. If a team has no active golfers for a round, the team score for that round will be zero.
9. Scoring will be calculated on two bases: best ball and worst ball.
   • A team's best ball score for a hole will be the lowest score (relative to par) for any active golfer on that hole.
   • A team's worst ball score for a hole will be the highest score (relative to par) for any active golfer on that hole.
   • If a team has no active golfers who complete a given hole, the score for that hole is zero for both best ball and worst ball scoring.
   All teams will be scored both ways, and separate standings will be maintained for each scoring basis. It is not necessary for a team to designate in advance which scoring method it is pursuing.
10. If a player withdraws during a round, any completed holes will count in the scoring. The only exception is if the withdrawal occurs during the first round and the golfer is eligible to be replaced by a provisional golfer, as defined below.
11. Each week, you may designate one "provisional golfer" for each team. A provisional golfer can replace an eligible golfer who withdraws from the tournament prior to the completion of any holes. The purpose of the provisional golfer is to protect against a last minute withdrawal. The following rules govern the provisional golfer feature:
    • The designation of a provisional golfer is optional, and must be re-specified each week. There is no carry-over.
    • A provisional golfer will only be eligible to be added to your roster if one of the golfers in your foursome withdraws after the preliminary field is announced, but prior to the completion of the first hole. A golfer who was never in the tournament field, either as an active player or as an alternate, is not eligible to be replaced. A golfer who completes at least one hole before withdrawing is not eligible to be replaced.
    • In the event that more than one of your roster golfers is eligible for replacement, the following rules will prioritize those golfers:
      1. All golfers added since the last freeze have the highest priority, and are sequenced LIFO (last in, first out). This allows each manager to set the replacement priority, if he/she desires.
      2. All remaining golfers (i.e., those carried over from the prior freeze) will then be sequenced in descending price order. If two of these golfers have the same price, then the most recently added golfer will have the higher replacement priority.
    • The system will automatically insert the provisional golfer in place of the withdrawn golfer with the highest priority, provided that funds are sufficient to make the transaction. If the withdrawing golfer with the highest priority cannot be replaced due to affordability constraints, then the other roster golfers will be similarly evaluated in the priority order specified above.
    • In the event that a roster golfer is to be replaced by the provisional golfer, if a trade is required to make the substitution, it will be charged. If an extra trade must be purchased, it will be. But if a trade can be conserved by replacing a golfer who was added since the last freeze, it will be.
12. If the early rounds of a tournament are played on multiple courses, player scorecards will be matched by course played, rather than by round. Details will be posted as each of those tournaments comes along. Suffice it to say that all rounds will be scored in a fair and consistent manner.
13. Scoring will be based upon information which is deemed to be reliable. In the event a golfer's score is reported differently by different sources, the score reported by PGATour.com will generally be considered to be correct, unless another score is demonstrably the correct one. RotoGuru.com will make its best efforts to obtain and report accurate team scores on a timely basis. If a game player believes that his score has been incorrectly calculated, he or she should notify RotoGuru.com via email (davehall@rotoguru2.com) as soon as the error is discovered. Seven days following the completion of any tournament, all team scoring for that tournament shall be final - unless RotoGuru.com believes that the best interests of the game are served by restating the score for a previous tournament.
14. At the conclusion of each tournament, each golfer will be repriced based upon his actual performance in that tournament. RotoGuru.com will be the sole determiner of price changes, and will employ a quantitative formula which is consistently applied each week. In general, golfers who fail to make the cut will suffer price declines, and most golfers who survive the cut will enjoy price increases. The primary factors in determining each golfer's price change will be his total score, his below-par scores, whether he makes the cut, the proportion of the field which makes the cut, the general strength of the field, and the golfer's starting price. The minimum price for all golfers is $500. There is no theoretical maximum price, although a golfer will need to get on a sustained hot streak to attain a price of $2000 or higher.
15. After players have been repriced, the roster freeze will be released and trading will be open once again for the next tournament.
16. Full season scoring will allow for one "mulligan tournament". The mulligan tournament score for each team will be excluded from that team's full season score. The mulligan tournament will be determined as follows:
    • For best ball scoring, the mulligan tournament for a team will be the tournament that produced the highest weekly score for that team, except that a "Major" tournament may not be the mulligan tournament.
    • For worst ball scoring, the mulligan tournament for a team will be the tournament that produced the lowest weekly score for that team, except that a "Major" tournament may not be the mulligan tournament.
    The purpose of the mulligan adjustment is to allow for one bad week, which may be a week with inferior performance, or may be a week when a roster was invalid or was not updated. However, the scores for all four Major tournaments (Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship) must be counted for each team, and cannot be excluded by the mulligan rule.
17. As described in the prize section of these rules, shorter contests will be conducted during the season, for which prizes will be offered. These contests will be based on the scoring for a subset of tournaments, and will not be adjusted for mulligan scoring. All tournaments during a contest period will be included in a team's score for that contest.
18. The lowest cumulative score at the end of the season wins the overall best ball prize (adjusted for the mulligan tournament). The highest cumulative score at the end of the season wins the overall worst ball prize (adjusted for the mulligan tournament). In the event of a tie, the team with the greatest franchise value (among tied teams) will win the tiebreaker.
19. Contest ties will be decided in favor of the team with the greatest team value appreciation for the tournament weeks covered by the contest period. (Note: Posted standings may not always accurately reflect the tiebreaker.)
20. Official contest standings will include all weeks from the A&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am through the BMW Championship. However, the standings program will be set up to provide scoring for alternate periods, including contest periods. The range of alternatives are solely for the convenience of entrants who may have started late, or who choose to play only limited tournaments, or who would simply like to evaluate performance over a more recent period.
21. The following prizes will be awarded:
    • The Grand Prize for the top full season best ball score will be a dozen Titleist golf balls, imprinted with the GuruGolf logo. The specific brand of Titleist balls awarded will be based upon availability at the time of the award.
    • The Grand Prize for the top full season worst ball score will be a dozen Top Flite golf balls, imprinted with the GuruGolf logo.
    • Shorter contests will be held during the season. For each designated contest, the best ball winner will receive a sleeve of 3 Titleist golf balls, imprinted with the GuruGolf logo, and the worst ball winner will receive a sleeve of 3 Top Flite golf balls, imprinted with the GuruGolf logo.
    • The team with the highest franchise value at the end of the season will receive a sleeve of 3 Titleist golf balls, imprinted with the GuruGolf logo.
    • "Perfect Low": A team with a single round best ball score of -19 or lower, or -18 if the score for every hole is a birdie, will win a sleeve of 3 Titleist golf balls.
    • "Perfect High": A team with a single round scorecard with no worst ball score of par or better on any hole will win a sleeve of 3 Top Flite golf balls.
    • A GuruGolf manager may win as many prizes during the season as he or she qualifies for, with 2 exceptions. Only one "Perfect low" prize may be won per person during the season, and only one "Perfect High" prize may be won per person during the season.
    • GuruPatron winners (as defined below) will have their contest prizes doubled (i.e., 2 sleeves). However, Grand prizes for the full season are not subject to GuruPatron doubling, and "Perfect Low" and "Perfect High" prizes are not subject to GuruPatron doubling.
    • In order to qualify for a GuruPatron prize doubling, the winner must have contributed to the GuruPatron donation program prior to the opening freeze date for the first tournament in the contest period. GuruPatron status is cumulative, so all listed GuruPatrons at the beginning of the season (due to contributions in the current or prior years) are already eligible. GuruPatron status will be denoted in the standings. GuruPatrons who are not accurately identified should notify the Guru by email. For more information on the GuruPatron program, which is the primary source of financial support for this web site, please see the GuruPatron information page.
    In the event that the listed prizes are not available, RotoGuru.com may substitute a prize with a similar value.

    Contest prizes will be offered for the following contest periods:

    Contest	Weeks
    "March to the Masters"	1-9
    "Spring to the Open"	11-18
    "Open Faced Sandwich"	20-23
    "Final Four"	28-31
    Majors Combined (separate prizes will be awarded for each Major tournament as well)	10, 19, 24, 27

22. The season will begin with the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Tournaments listed below as "preseason" will not count in the final standings. All roster activity and scoring during preseason weeks will be cleared when the regular season begins. The season will continue each week through the BMW Championship, held in early-September. A list of covered tournaments appears below. (If a tournament is rescheduled for any reason, RotoGuru.com may amend this list of included tournaments.)

The following tournaments will be included:
(Background colors correspond to the contest periods listed above)

Tournament	Date	Location
Buick Invitational (preseason)	Jan. 24 - 27	San Diego, California
FBR Open (preseason)	Jan. 31 - Feb. 03	Scottsdale, Arizona
1 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am	Feb. 07 - 10	Pebble Beach, California
2 Northern Trust Open	Feb. 14 - 17	Pacific Palisades, California
3 Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya-Cancun	Feb. 21 - 24	Riviera Maya, Mexico
4 The Honda Classic	Feb. 28 - March 02	Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
5 PODS Championship	March 06 - 09	Palm Harbor, Florida
6 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard	March 13 - 16	Orlando, Florida
7 Puerto Rico Open presented by Banco Popular	March 20 - 23	Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
8 Zurich Classic of New Orleans	March 27 - 30	Avondale, Louisiana
9 Shell Houston Open	April 03 - 06	Humble, Texas
10 Masters Tournament	April 10 - 13	Augusta, Georgia
11 Verizon Heritage	April 17 - 20	Hilton Head, South Carolina
12 EDS Byron Nelson Championship	April 24 - 27	Irving, Texas
13 Wachovia Championship	May 01 - 04	Charlotte, North Carolina
14 THE PLAYERS Championship	May 08 - 11	Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
15 AT&T Classic	May 15 - 18	Duluth, Georgia
16 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial	May 22 - 25	Ft. Worth, Texas
17 the Memorial Tournament presented by Morgan Stanley	May 29 - June 01	Dublin, Ohio
18 Stanford St. Jude Championship	June 05 - 08	Memphis, Tennessee
19 U.S. Open Championship	June 12 - 15	San Diego, California
20 Travelers Championship	June 19 - 22	Cromwell, Connecticut
21 Buick Open	June 26 - 29	Grand Blanc, Michigan
22 AT&T National	July 03 - 06	Bethesda, Maryland
23 John Deere Classic	July 10 - 13	Silvis, Illinois
24 British Open Championship	July 17 - 20	Lancashire, United Kingdon
25 RBC Canadian Open	July 24 - 27	Oakville,Ontario, Canada
26 Legends Reno-Tahoe Open	July 31 - Aug. 03	Reno, Nevada
27 PGA Championship	Aug. 07 - 10	Bloomfield Township, Michigan
28 Wyndham Championship	Aug. 14 - 17	TBA
29 The Barclays	Aug. 21 - 24	Harrison, New York
30 Deutsche Bank Championship	Aug. 29 - Sep. 01	Norton, Massachusetts
31 BMW Championship	Sep. 04 - 07	St. Louis, Missouri