The Augusta 2020 Contest

[GregGarner]

Hey friends, just got an email from 2nd Swing that the Augusta 2020 Contest is up with some pretty great prizes.

GRAND PRIZE: FREE CLUBS 3 YEARS + 3 Ltd Edition Masters Putters -1 Winner, $3000 Upgrade Every Year for 3 Years - ($12K value)

1st PLACE: Full Bag of Clubs Any Brand (up to 14 + BAG) (up to $4K total)

2nd PLACE: Custom Fit 7pc Iron Set + (3) Wedges - ANY BRAND ($2K Value)

3rd PLACE: TaylorMade SIM Max Driver + Scotty Cameron T22 Putter ($1500 total value)

4th PLACE: Custom Fit Driver of Your Choice + Bushnell Hybrid Rangefinder/GPS ($1K total value)

5th PLACE: Custom Callaway JAWS AUGUSTA20 Wedge ($200 Value)

6th PLACE: $250 2nd Swing eGift Card

50 Consolation Winners: Receive $25 eGift Card

 

Contest Dates: November 1 - 15, 2020

Good luck!!

[Chip Strokes]

entered. that’s one hell of a grand prize. good luck everyone 

[Tpoole22]

Wow that would be incredible.  Thanks for sharing

[Vegan_Golfer_PNW]

Thanks. That is sick. Too bad the field is hard to predict a winner. 

[golfish!]

Thanks for the share! Let's hope one of us wins!

[xOldBenKenobiX]

Thank you for sharing

[dlow206]

Grand prize seems almost impossible to win. I don't think anyone will win it. You have to get the following right to be eligible for the grand prize.

Winner of the 2020 Masters, Runner up of the 2020 Masters, Winner’s back 9 score on Sunday at the Masters, Winner’s 18-hole total on Sunday at the Masters, and Runner up’s back 9 score on Sunday at the Masters.

[JohnSmalls]

13 minutes ago, dlow206 said:

Grand prize seems almost impossible to win. I don't think anyone will win it. You have to get the following right to be eligible for the grand prize.

Winner of the 2020 Masters, Runner up of the 2020 Masters, Winner’s back 9 score on Sunday at the Masters, Winner’s 18-hole total on Sunday at the Masters, and Runner up’s back 9 score on Sunday at the Masters.

So you're saying there's a chance?

[dlow206]

Just now, JohnSmalls said:

So you're saying there's a chance?

About the same chance of winning the lotto...

[JohnSmalls]

2 minutes ago, dlow206 said:

About the same chance of winning the lotto...

 

[Tarheelvolvo]

20 minutes ago, dlow206 said:

Grand prize seems almost impossible to win. I don't think anyone will win it. You have to get the following right to be eligible for the grand prize.

Winner of the 2020 Masters, Runner up of the 2020 Masters, Winner’s back 9 score on Sunday at the Masters, Winner’s 18-hole total on Sunday at the Masters, and Runner up’s back 9 score on Sunday at the Masters.

I was curious about this language, too. I've run site contests/sweepstakes like this in the past and the way I read it was not, "you must get these answers correct to win the prize" but more "since we'll be drawing multiple names, we need a way to determine the winner." So if some random ends up winning the Masters I believe they will still give out a grand prize, it will just be based on the score(s) chosen and not the tournament winners chosen - eg: Let's say Sandy Lyle wins. Well no one probably picked ole' Sandy, so then it would go to the score for Sunday back 9, if that's the same, then it would go to total score for Sunday, and on down the list until they find whomever was closest and they can definitively say who is the grand prize winner. Next closest would be 1st prize winner, then 2nd, and on down the winner rankings. The rest of the names drawn would get the $25gc.

If they don't give out a prize, as advertised, it could easily lead to a lawsuit - which I've unfortunately been involved in with one company (not my fault!!) since the business owner tried to get a little too sneaky with the rules and regs and the FTC came down hard on him/us.

[dlow206]

4 minutes ago, Tarheelvolvo said:

I was curious about this language, too. I've run site contests/sweepstakes like this in the past and the way I read it was not, "you must get these answers correct to win the prize" but more "since we'll be drawing multiple names, we need a way to determine the winner." So if some random ends up winning the Masters I believe they will still give out a grand prize, it will just be based on the score(s) chosen and not the tournament winners chosen - eg: Let's say Sandy Lyle wins. Well no one probably picked ole' Sandy, so then it would go to the score for Sunday back 9, if that's the same, then it would go to total score for Sunday, and on down the list until they find whomever was closest and they can definitively say who is the grand prize winner. Next closest would be 1st prize winner, then 2nd, and on down the winner rankings. The rest of the names drawn would get the $25gc.

If they don't give out a prize, as advertised, it could easily lead to a lawsuit - which I've unfortunately been involved in with one company (not my fault!!) since the business owner tried to get a little too sneaky with the rules and regs and the FTC came down hard on him/us.

I read the language multiple times. Still think that its not guaranteed for someone to win the grand prize. They go out of their way to call out in the language that winners are guaranteed for the non-grand prizes.

To be eligible to win the Grand Prize, you must correctly answer the following: Winner of the 2020 Masters, Runner up of the 2020 Masters, Winner’s back 9 score on Sunday at the Masters, Winner’s 18-hole total on Sunday at the Masters, and Runner up’s back 9 score on Sunday at the Masters.

 

Winners are guaranteed for the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5th, 6th and 50 other consolation prizes. Winners will be selected from all eligible entries within the contest period and containing accurate contact information. You do not need to correctly guess the winner, runner up, total score of winner’s Sunday round and their back 9 scores to be eligible for the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd,4^th,5th,6th and 50 consolation prizes.

[Tarheelvolvo]

8 minutes ago, dlow206 said:

I read the language multiple times. Still think that its not guaranteed for someone to win the grand prize. They go out of their way to call out in the language that winners are guaranteed for the non-grand prizes.

To be eligible to win the Grand Prize, you must correctly answer the following: Winner of the 2020 Masters, Runner up of the 2020 Masters, Winner’s back 9 score on Sunday at the Masters, Winner’s 18-hole total on Sunday at the Masters, and Runner up’s back 9 score on Sunday at the Masters.

 

Winners are guaranteed for the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5th, 6th and 50 other consolation prizes. Winners will be selected from all eligible entries within the contest period and containing accurate contact information. You do not need to correctly guess the winner, runner up, total score of winner’s Sunday round and their back 9 scores to be eligible for the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd,4^th,5th,6th and 50 consolation prizes.

Gets in to a bit of a legal grey area, from my very basic understanding on sweeps law - requiring skill based questions/answers is not very common in the US for this reason. I would personally avoid it, but I'm not running the sweeps! 

[GregGarner]

1 hour ago, Tarheelvolvo said:

Well no one probably picked ole' Sandy

...until now

[golfish!]

On 11/2/2020 at 10:20 AM, greggarner said:

...until now

[jb0330]

thank you for the share!!!

[dlow206]

On 11/2/2020 at 9:03 AM, Tarheelvolvo said:

Gets in to a bit of a legal grey area, from my very basic understanding on sweeps law - requiring skill based questions/answers is not very common in the US for this reason. I would personally avoid it, but I'm not running the sweeps! 

Just saw the results of this contest on the 2ndswing site. No grand prize winner because no one got all the answers correct.

[Vegan_Golfer_PNW]

Did anyone here win? No dice for me

[Tarheelvolvo]

47 minutes ago, dlow206 said:

Just saw the results of this contest on the 2ndswing site. No grand prize winner because no one got all the answers correct.

well that's just shady and underhanded...I would certainly not have run my contest that way. Daggum shame

[GregGarner]

2 hours ago, rbsiedsc said:

Did anyone here win? No dice for me

Nope. I saw one of the winners was from the same town as me, so I feel like he should definitely split it though.

[ChitownM2]

1 hour ago, Tarheelvolvo said:

well that's just shady and underhanded...I would certainly not have run my contest that way. Daggum shame

Not a surprise though. I kind of viewed that grand prize as something that was like winning the lottery or that $1 million dollar prize for filling out a perfect NCAA tournament bracket.