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Frequently asked questions
What do I need to know?
Getting Started
Fairway is a weekly and/or season-long fantasy golf app. You draft real PGA Tour players, set your weekly lineup, and compete in a private league with friends based on actual stroke-play tournament scores. Lowest total strokes wins — just like real golf.
Fairway is free during our trial period. We may introduce a cost in the future as the app evolves, but trial users will get plenty of notice before anything changes. Fairway does not handle money or process payments — buy-ins and payouts can be tracked in your league for reference, but commissioners collect and distribute prize money outside the app.
iOS is available now (TestFlight beta, App Store soon). Android is on the roadmap.
No. If you can pick names from a list of players, you can play. Scoring is straightforward: the team with the fewest total strokes from its weekend lineup wins that week.
Download the app and create an account with your email or Sign in with Apple.
Leagues
Open the Leagues tab and tap Create League. Walk through the setup wizard to name your league, pick the tournaments that will count for the season, set roster rules, choose your draft format, and configure payouts.
Once your league is created, you'll get a unique invite code (and shareable link) to send your friends via text, email, or any chat app. They enter the code in their app to join.
Get an invite code from your league's commissioner and enter it in the app. All leagues are private during Phase 1 — there's no public league browser.
Between 2 and 20 teams.
The commissioner creates the league and controls all settings: which tournaments count for the season, roster rules, deadlines, draft format, trades on/off, major-tournament designations, and the season competition point structure.
Yes — there's no limit on how many leagues you can join or commission.
The commissioner picks which PGA tournaments count toward the season. The season starts when the first selected tournament tees off and ends automatically when the final selected tournament completes.
Most settings lock once the first tournament starts. Commissioners can still add future tournaments and designate majors on upcoming events, but roster size, weekly players, and weekend player counts are locked for the season.
Drafting
- Live draft: Real-time in-app draft with a pick clock. Everyone logs into the app at the scheduled time and picks in turn. Supports snake (order reverses each round) or linear (same order every round) formats.
- Offline draft: The commissioner runs the draft outside the app (in person, on a call, etc.) and uploads the results via CSV or manual entry.
The system auto-picks for you when your timer expires. The commissioner chooses the auto-pick strategy when setting up the draft (best available by world ranking, or random). Disconnected teams get a shorter 20-second timer to keep the draft moving.
No. The commissioner can review the draft picks after but they are locked. A team can add/drop or trade for players after the draft is complete.
Any player in Fairway's database — not just the field for one upcoming tournament. You're drafting for the full season.
No. Each player can only be on one team's roster per league.
Weekly Play
After the cut, you pick your weekend lineup from your active players who made it. Your team's score for the week is the sum of those players' actual stroke totals across the rounds they play. Lower is better.
- Active players: The subset of your roster you select to play in a tournament. Locked at the lineup deadline.
- Weekend players: A smaller subset of your active players, chosen after the cut, who actually count toward your score for the weekend.
The commissioner can set the numer of players that play for your team each week and set the number of players that count for weekend play (after the cut).
The system auto-selects for you:
- Active lineup: Highest-ranked players on your roster by World Golf Ranking.
- Weekend players: If the commissioner enabled auto-promotion, the lowest-scoring players who made the cut are selected. If auto-promotion is off, your team advances zero players that week.
The commissioner sets the deadline in hours before the first tee time (0–72 hours). The weekend lineup has a separate deadline tied to the Round 3 first tee time (0–24 hours before).
Their score at the time of the cut or withdrawal counts. There's no replacement. If all your weekend players miss the cut or withdraw, your team finishes last that week.
No. Once the lineup deadline passes, your active roster is locked for that tournament. Weekend selections lock at their own deadline before Round 3.
Roster Management
Yes. You can swap any player on your roster for an available player (one not owned by any team in your league). Add/drops lock at the weekly deadline and stay locked during the tournament.
Not currently. Add/drops are first-come, first-served, and added players are immediately available. Waiver priority is on the Phase 2 roadmap.
Only if your commissioner enables trades for the league. Trades are 1-for-1 player swaps. You propose a trade, the recipient accepts or rejects (no counter-offers), and pending trades expire after the commissioner-set window (default 48 hours).
Yes — the commissioner can void any accepted trade with a reason, as long as neither traded player has had subsequent roster activity (further add/drops, additional trades, etc.).
Commissioners can set a season-level trade deadline. After that date, no new trades can be proposed or accepted for the rest of the season.
Season-Long Scoring
The commissioner picks one of three season scoring modes:
- Strokes: Cumulative total strokes across all tournaments. Lowest wins.
- To-par: Cumulative total to-par score. Lowest wins.
- Points: Points awarded each week based on weekly finish position; cumulative points across the season. Highest wins.
Each week, teams earn points based on their weekly finish. The default distribution scales with league size (a 10-team league awards 10 points for 1st, 9 for 2nd, etc.), but commissioners can customize the distribution. Ties split the points evenly across the spanned positions.
Tournaments the commissioner designates as majors (typically the Masters, PGA Championship, U.S. Open, and Open Championship, but any tournament can be flagged). In points mode, scores from majors get multiplied by the league's major multiplier (between 1.0x and 5.0x - se by the commissioner).
Points available for a tie are split. For example, if 2 teams tie for 2nd. The 2nd and 3rd place points are added together and split evenly.
Data, Players & Tournaments
Live scores typically refresh within about a minute during active rounds. The tournament results are calculated within 2 days of the tournament ending. Typically sooner. Weather delays and other events that delay a tournament can push those timeframes out.
PGA Tour only in Phase 1. LIV Golf and DP World Tour coverage is planned for Phase 2. However, any players playing in a tournament are included. For example, Majors typically include LIV golfers and some players from other tours will play up for a week. If they are in the field, they can be added to your team if you have a spot.
Any tournament on the PGA Tour schedule for the season. However, we exclude any tournaments that are not traditional stroke play. Match play and team events are not included because scoring is not individual.
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