System and method for ranking of golf tournament participants

Abstract

A first media segment, for example a rebroadcast, is assembled that includes a portion of second media segment, for example an independent tournament event. The second media segment is longer in duration than first media segment. The second media segment is a media recording of one of the major golf tournaments or a sub-major golf tournament. The first media segment includes a portion of a major golf tournament combined with a portion of a sub-major golf tournament. A portion (or multiple portions) of the second media segment is extracted as part of assembling the first media segment. The portion(s) are combined to form the first media segment (e.g. the rebroadcast, summary, or recap). A broadcast system transmits, to a media receiver, the first media segment at a predefined time after the tournaments corresponding to the second media segment have been completed.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method comprising:
 calculating a cumulative score for players that have participated in a series of tournament events, the tournament events selected from only a Major golf event or a sub-Major golf event;   ranking the players based on the cumulative score;   identifying a world champion based on the ranking; and   providing a reward and recognition to the identified world champion.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 conducting a playoff between leading players from the tournament events, the leading players determined based on the ranking, and wherein the world champion is a winner of the playoff.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the leading players are handicapped to modify a starting playoff score, the handicap based on the ranking to provide a bonus to the starting playoff score for the players with high rankings and a penalty to the starting playoff score for the players with low rankings. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 receiving, by a tournament scoring program on a tournament server from a first database via a network connection, first data sanctioned by a first tournament provider, the first data comprising:
 a player identification identifying a player from a plurality of players of a first independent tournament event, the first independent tournament event comprising at least one of the series of tournament events; and 
 a first value corresponding to the player identification and the first independent tournament event; 
   receiving, by the tournament scoring program on the tournament server from a second database via a second network connection, second data sanctioned by a second tournament provider, the second data comprising:
 the player identification identifying the player from a second plurality of players of a second independent tournament event, the second independent tournament event comprising at least one of the series of tournament events; and 
 a second value corresponding to the player identification and the second independent tournament event; 
   generating, by the tournament scoring program, cumulative score data representing the cumulative score for the player based on the first value and either the second value or a cumulative score accessed from the tournament server;   generating, by the tournament scoring program, ranking data for at least one of the plurality of players based on the cumulative score data; and   transmitting, by the tournament scoring program, the cumulative score data and the ranking data from the tournament server to a mobile device.   
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the first value is a first score of the player in the first independent tournament event, the first score stored in the first data, wherein the second data is a second score of the player in the second tournament event, the second score stored in the second data. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the generating of the cumulative score data is performed by the tournament scoring program adding the first score to the second score to calculate the cumulative score for the player corresponding to the player identification. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6 , wherein when, for one of the players, there is no player identification in one of either the first data or the second data, that the cumulative score is based on only the first score or only the second score added to the cumulative score. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the first value is a first rank of the player in the first independent tournament event, the first rank stored in the first data, wherein the second value is a second rank of the player in the second tournament event, the second rank stored in the second data. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 8 , wherein the generating of the cumulative score data is performed by the tournament scoring program adding the first rank to the second rank to calculate a cumulative rank for the player corresponding to the player identification. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein when, for one of the players, there is no player identification in one of either the first data or the second data, that the cumulative rank is based on only the first rank or only the second rank. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the cumulative score data is updated on the tournament server in response to each receiving of the second data. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 11 , wherein the transmitting from the tournament server to the mobile device, of the cumulative score data and the ranking data by the tournament scoring program, occurs after the updating.