# 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:

{% hint style="info" %}
For Match Play formats Playoffs are defined here:\
[Leaderboard - Match Play - Playoffs](https://docs.sportradar.com/golf/feed-specifications/endpoints-stream/match-play-leaderboard#play-offs) &[ Match Score - Match Play - Playoffs](https://docs.sportradar.com/golf/feed-specifications/endpoints-stream/match-play-scoreboard#play-offs)
{% endhint %}

```
{
  "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:

![](https://3986185644-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FDffLE95uqa6ME5CuRLIu%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-d490bab4b903396e0f9af7aca8706f516de8eec8%2Fimage%20\(8\).png?alt=media)