17/03/2026
The Sandex - 2026 *Season Announcement*
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We are again excited to announce that “The Sandex” sweep is back for the 2026 Medal Season at Royal Sandyhill’s Golf Club! 🏌⛳️🏆 Sandyhills Golf Club
It’s incredible to think we are now entering our 9th Sandex Season at Sandyhill’s Golf Club. During that period, we have paid out over £20K to our participants & Champions.💷
Format:
The Sandex Competition format is based on the current FedEx Cup Points system, where each participating member acquires points dependant on where they finish within that day’s medal. These points & Sandex Leaderboards will be updated at the earliest opportunity after Sandyhill’s Golf Club publishes the respective medal results. 🏌⛳️🏆
The Sandex History
The Sandex was formed in 2017 by a group of Sandyhill’s G.C members with the purpose of creating a season long competition that would encourage SGC members to increase their medal participation at Sandyhill’s Golf Club & more importantly to complete them! We’ve all at times walked off at the 7th hole after nightmare starts to medals. However, there have also been plenty of occasions when that nightmare start has turned into something decent after 18 holes! By adding a competition element that runs on a point-based system, it seems to have encouraged our members to keep going when the Golfing Gods are not smiling! 😉 That for us is what “The Sandex” is all about. 😊
Proposed schedule & changes for the 2026 Season:
Regular Season: 13 Qualifiers – Best 8 scores from 13 Medals (Qualifiers - 18th April to the 5th of September 2026)
There will be no play offs again this year! The top 9 players with the best 8 scores from 13 medals will proceed straight to this year’s Sandex Final, which is scheduled to be played over 36 holes on Saturday the 12th of September.
As you will notice, there will be an extra medal with your 8 best scores counting out of 13 qualifiers, this gives a bit of flexibility around holidays and a bit more room for manoeuvring around your daily life & tasks etc. This year we will also introduce bonus Stableford points to incentivise the players who finish in the top 5 positions within our end of regular season Leaderboard. This will reward the players in relation to their finishing position and give the top 5 a bit of a "deserved" head start to the final. The additional bonus points will be added to the final 36-hole totals at the end of this year’s final and should make things a bit more interesting throughout the day!
Finishing bonus Stableford points on offer for the top 5 players after the regular season.🏌⛳️🏆
1st = 5 bonus points
2nd = 4 bonus points
3rd = 3 bonus points
4th = 2 bonus points
5th = 1 bonus point
6th to 9th = No bonus points.
All Finalists will be announced on our FB page and notified via e-mail at the earliest opportunity after our last qualifying medal on the 5th of September!
To add some increased point scoring opportunities, we will once again have “Sandex Majors” during the season! There will be 4 Sandex Majors where increased points will be on offer – these majors at will be positioned at various intervals throughout the season (see our key dates)!🏌⛳️🏆
The Sandex Final (12th, September 2026) – Current Sandex Champion Mr Cameron Fallan 🏆
The 2026 Sandex Final will again consist of the top 9 players who have accumulated the most points during the Sandex qualifying season and just like in the last few years, the Sandex Final will be played over 36 holes via the Stableford format (now with additional bonus points). The winner with the most points after the 36 holes will receive “The Sandex” Trophy along with a cash amount (TBC) from the “sweep” fund! 🏌⛳️🏆
The Sandex - 2026 Joining Instructions
Do you think you have what it takes to prise current 2026 Sandex Champion Mr Cameron Fallan’s title away from him? If so, we are ready hear from YOU now! 🏌⛳️🏆
Everyone who has previously participated or was contacted last year & has expressed an interest to join, shall receive an e-mail invitation later tonight or tomorrow (17th of March), with all the details for 2026’s competition.
The Sandex takes a fair bit of organisation, therefore we would appreciate a prompt response with your joining intentions. The cut off for joining & payment of fees this year will be the 13th of April! Joining Fees will stay as normal at £50 for the full 2026 Sandex season.🏌⛳️🏆
AS always, we are happy to invite new members to join SGC’s No.1 sweep. However, in order of fairness to our loyal Sandex patrons & to keep the integrity of the competition. We shall require that any new Sandex joiners must have played as a member at Sandyhill’s Golf Club for at least 1 year. You can express your interest by this FB post/DM or via [email protected] it is as easy as that! 🏌⛳️🏆
If you have any questions or queries, then please do not hesitate to contact us!
We look forward to hearing from you all….
Let’s, go Sandex 2026!🏌⛳️🏆
The Sandex Committee.
We are delighted to announce that returning as this year’s Sandex Captain will be Mr Michael “Spencer” Tracey. Michael was our very first Sandex Captain back in 2017 and we look forward to reading some of his thoughts and insights on “The Sandex” competition throughout our 2026 Sandex season! As always Spencer will enjoy the assistance of the other Sandex committee members during his reign as Captain. 🏌⛳️🏆
Regards,
The Sandex Committee
