The Medal & Trophy Winners Shield is the premier Men's event to mark the end of the summer golfing season. It is also the final event contributing
to the Order of Merit. In order to play in the event, you need to qualify in the preceding year through one or more of several routes:
- any winner of either division in medals and mid-week medals (up to and including October)
- any winner of a men's singles or doubles competition including
Captain's Shoot-Out, Vice Captains shoot-out, first class shoot-out,
winter and summer K/Os winner of the Club Championship (net and gross).
- the highest place man in any mixed singles trophy
- the top 10 in the Order or Merit following the Oct medal (after points have been awarded to summer singles and doubles KOs)
- the holder of the Medal & Trophy Winner's Shield
Below are the final qualifiers for the 2018 event:
| Black, J |
July medal, Spitfire Salver |
| Black, P |
OOM top 10 |
| Bonnett, S |
Club Championship (nett), Linton, Spitfire
Salver |
| Carse, B |
May medal |
| Clifton, T |
1st Class Shoot-Out, Sprayavia, Captains
Shoot-Out, Lucy Godfrey Memorial |
| Coulson, M |
Secretary's Salver |
| Desborough, Ian |
March m/w medal, May m/w medal |
| Eggs, T |
August m/w medal |
| Gaillard, M |
Grange Trophy |
| Handscombe, G |
Dec Medal 2017, Barn Trophy, Lakeside, June
medal, Club Championship (gross) |
| Jackson, P |
Feb medal, Barn Trophy, June m/w medal D2,
singles KO, pairs KO |
| Knobel-Forbes, M |
Jan medal, April medal, Blenheim Bowl, Sept
medal, winter singles KO, Oct medal |
| Leigh, T |
Granta Rummer, Hallmark, Nick Willys |
| Noble, M |
Heydon Masters |
| Nunn, B |
Holder |
| Redgewell, M |
March medal |
| Rodham, J |
August medal |
| Sephton, D |
June m/w medal D1, Oct m/w medal |
| Tomkins, D |
Nov Medal 2017, Blenheim Bowl |
| Truckle, S |
July m/w medal D2 |
| Watts, D |
Sept m/w medal, VC shoot-out |
| Woods, T |
April m/w medal, July m/w medal D1 |
| Wright, D |
3 Counties Plate |