PIAA District IV Golf Post-Season Info
Listed below are the rules and regulations of the District IV Qualifying Tournament, to be held on Wednesday, October 1, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. at the White Deer Golf Club (Vintage Course). Coaches meetings will be held at 9:15 a.m.
Contact Information
Mike Snyder
120 Penn Street
Montgomery, PA 17752
Fax: (570) 547-6755
msnyder@montasd.org
Team & Qualifying Tournament Information
The District IV Committee is sponsoring a qualifying tournament to provide an additional opportunity for individual golfers to qualify for the District IV Championship Tournament.
This tournament is not in place of the District IV Tournament.
Reminder: Individual golfers can also qualify for the District Tournament by having a season average of 88.00 or better (boys) and 100.00 or better (girls) by the District IV Tournament registration deadline of Friday, September 26. Also, any golfer who will be participating with a TEAM at the District Tournament will also be automatically qualified for the District Tournament. If you are unsure as to whether your team will qualify for the tournament, it is recommended sending golfers who do NOT meet the individual qualifying criteria to this event.
Any golfer who enters the District IV Qualifying Tournament should be accompanied by a school representative. The representative will work with tournament officials to help supervise the event.
Each school is limited to three male and three female entries. There is no fee for entering this tournament. Only those players with a legitimate chance of scoring an 88 (boys) or 100 (girls) be entered into this tournament.
Entry form and eligibility sheet must be received by Friday, September 26, 2025.
*** Schools that do not adhere to the deadline with submitting information may be subject to a $100 fine.
Send entries and direct inquiries to the District IV Golf Chairman.
Range balls may be paid for at the course on the day of the tournament.
Players must adhere to the following dress code: Shirts should have collars or be a suitable sports "performance" tee; no jeans; no denim or cut-off shorts; no tank tops; no visible undergarments; no backwards hats; no metal-spiked or hard-soled shoes.
Any boy who shoots 88 or better and any girl who shoots 100 or better will qualify for the District IV Tournament individually. These will be the only players from the Qualifier to enter the District IV Tournament.
Qualifying Criteria
Each eligible school with a golf team is invited to enter up to six (6) male golfers in the team championship. Only four will count towards the total team score.
In order to be eligible for the District IV Team Championship a school with a boys or co-ed team must have a winning percentage of .500 or better or have earned a conference or league championship.
2A / 3A Girls
Each eligible school with a girls golf team is invited to enter up to five female golfers in the team championship.
Remember that beginning with the 2017 season, girls teams may now play and score three golfers. Teams also have the option of entering up to five golfers, but only three will count towards their total score.
Any school that sponsors a girls team will automatically qualify for the team championships.
General Information
The enclosed entry form should list the results of each match your team participates in during the season (prior to the deadline for entry). If your team competes against several other teams during a match, you may summarize the results for the competition as shown, rather than list each individual team involved. (See the team entry form for an example.)
Boys or Coed teams competing in the Team Championship may play six and record four scores. Girls teams in the Team Championship may play five and record three scores. The team champions in each class will be the qualifying team with the lowest aggregate score. (Teams with four or more participating players that do not qualify for the Team Championship by the 50% winning percentage criterion will not be eligible for the Team Championship regardless of total score.)
Teams with winning percentages of .500 or greater are reminded that you may enter golfers in the Team Championship who do not meet the qualifying criteria for the individual championship.
There will be a Class AA and AAA, male and female team champion, provided there are teams that meet the entry criterion in each class. The team champions in each class will compete with District II in a PIAA Sub-Region Tournament at a location, date, and time listed above. The winners of the Sub-Region Tournament will advance to the state team championships.
Boys District champion teams must have a team score of 400 or lower to advance to the Sub-Regional Tournament. Girls District champion teams must have a team score of 300 or lower to advance to the Sub-Regional Tournament.
Individuals must shoot a 110 or lower in the sub regional in order to qualify to participate in the Team Championships. If an individual on an advancing team shoots greater than 110 they are not permitted to participate in the championships.
Individual Championships
Qualifying Information
Note: AAA female golfers will automatically compete in a sub-regional tournament with District II, qualifying them for the PIAA Individual Championship. The sub-regional will be held on Monday, September 29 at Fox Hill CC, with a rain date of Tuesday, September 30. All players will report to their assigned hole by 9:45 a.m. All entry fees for the District II tournament will be covered by District IV. There will be no cost to the schools for participation in the event.
- To qualify individually, male players must have an average score of 44 or better (for those playing predominately 9-hole matches) or 88.00 or better (those playing predominately 18-hole matches). Female golfers must average 50 or better (for those playing predominately 9-hole matches) or 100.00 or better (for those playing predominately 18-hole matches). In order to post a qualifying average a golfer must have at least golfed a total of 45 holes.
- In addition to the season scoring average qualification measure, any male or female golfer who does need meet the above standard may participate in the Last Chance District Qualifier at White Deer GC on October1, 2025. Any male who shoots 88 or below and any female who shoots 100 or below that day will automatically qualify for the individual district tournament. This includes all golfers who are participating in the team event as well.
- As a scoring option, we will be allowing coaches to choose to utilize the course slope and rating to calculate scores in order to lower their individual golfers season averages. Information will be sent directly to coaches and athletic directors with conversion tables. In some cases, course difficulty may impact a golfer's eligibility to meet the qualifying averages. If this is the case, you may use this to qualify for golfer to districts. THIS IS NOT MADATORY.
Golfers MAY drop their highest score(s) based on their total number of holes played as follows:
| Total Holes Played | Eligible scores to drop |
|---|---|
| 63 or more | One 18 hole score or Two 9 hole match scores totaling 18 holes |
| 54 | One 9 match hole score |
Schools with a golf team may enter as many players individually as qualify by these criteria; at-large entries from schools that do not sponsor a golf team may likewise enter as many players as qualify by these criteria.
Names and average scores for the 2024 season should be submitted on the enclosed entry form. Pairings will be made using these average scores.
Tournament Advancement & Cut Rule
There will be a cut after the first day of the individual district tournament. The cut will be based each individual's round one score. Any player within 10 strokes of the last qualifying spot will advance to the final day of the district tournament. Example: any golfer within 10 strokes of 7th place in the AA boys standings after the first day of competition, will advance to day two. If there are no other qualifiers using the 10-stroke rule, the tournament will have the discretion to adjust the cut line.
State Qualifiers
- 2A Girls - 3
- 2A Boys - 7
- 3A Boys - 2
