Playoffs

Playoff scores are returned by an endpoint that acts as a subset of teamholebyhole. A new websocket will be opened when the playoff begins (with a seqNo of 1). All of the attributes that are available in the above round details scenarios remain available during a playoff.

The major difference comes in the holeOrder and holeNos. Golf playoffs normally involve the repeated re-playing of the 18th hole, and as such playoffs can be distinguished from regulation play based on a combination of these things.

holeOrder will begin at 1 and holeNo at 18. See below for the beginning of a series of round details packets for a playoff:

For Match Play formats Playoffs are defined here: Leaderboard - Match Play - Playoffs & Match Score - Match Play - Playoffs

{
  "message": "Authorisation accepted"
}
{
  "players": [
    {
      "displayName": "Tyrrell HATTON",
      "country": "ENG",
      "isAmateur": false,
      "lastName": "HATTON",
      "firstName": "Tyrrell",
      "id": 6
    }
  ],
  "timestamp": "2019-12-10T10:53:02.708Z",
  "courseId": "1733",
  "state": "RoundStarted",
  "matchType": "Strokeplay",
  "groupNo": 1,
  "eventElementType": "RoundStatusUpdate",
  "seqNum": 1,
  "holeOrder": 1,
  "teamNo": 28,
  "holeNo": 18
}
{
  "timestamp": "2019-12-10T10:53:08.987Z",
  "courseId": "1733",
  "state": "HoleStarted",
  "groupNo": 1,
  "eventElementType": "RoundStatusUpdate",
  "seqNum": 2,
  "holeOrder": 1,
  "teamNo": 28,
  "holeNo": 18
}
{

This example is taken from a playoff involving 6 players. See below for an example of how the European Tour represented this: