Puttingfromtherough
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This is my first post but I've been enjoying the forum for a couple of years. Relatively new golfer so excuse any mistakes I'll no doubt make here. And sorry for the long post
I recently played in a club medal competition, our club uses the IG app and we play competitions in 3 balls. When playing in previous competitions my playing partners have either marked a physical card, or entered their score on the app as they go, entering one of the other 3 players scores also - which we would discuss on the first tee or at least before finishing the first hole. At the end of the round either signinng the physical card, or verifying scores were correctly entered on the app. This time, neither of my PPs made any conversation about it. I'm not the most forward person and awkwardly mentioned I was entering my score on the app and I'd selected to also enter PP A's scores - this was pretty much ignored. A few holes in when I made another comment about entering his score, he said 'you are not allowed to enter other players scores as you go' and seemed a bit annoyed that I would do such a thing. I couldnt be bothered with a possible disagreement and didnt bother entering any of his further scores. They were both marking at least their own score down on a card, but I dont know if they marked each others scores as well. Neither of them ever really spoke about the scores as we went - never asked about what I'd scored on a hole which I found pretty strange, because I thought in competitions you had to mark someone elses scores - for verification purposes which makes total sense to me.
The outcome was that they both entered their scores after the round on IG app, I did the same and just confirmed PP A's scores that he'd put in without actually knowing if they were correct because I didnt bother asking. Both of their scores went in, and mine was on the live leaderboard, but has since disappeared, I'm not even on the results list as DQ'd or NR. I presume its not been logged because no one verified it, but I'm not sure, and neither PP mentioned anything after the round.
I'm going to speak to someone in the pro shop to find out where my score has gone - it doesnt really matter as I hadnt played well at all, I just found it strange how they went about the whole business of scoring.
A friend who also played the competition later told me that he found that you can enter your score on the app without anyone else verifying it - which he did and his score was submitted fine. So I'm presuming thats what my PP's did, which seems a bit odd, as without checking eachothers scores either on a card or the app, you could enter any score you like!?
I recently played in a club medal competition, our club uses the IG app and we play competitions in 3 balls. When playing in previous competitions my playing partners have either marked a physical card, or entered their score on the app as they go, entering one of the other 3 players scores also - which we would discuss on the first tee or at least before finishing the first hole. At the end of the round either signinng the physical card, or verifying scores were correctly entered on the app. This time, neither of my PPs made any conversation about it. I'm not the most forward person and awkwardly mentioned I was entering my score on the app and I'd selected to also enter PP A's scores - this was pretty much ignored. A few holes in when I made another comment about entering his score, he said 'you are not allowed to enter other players scores as you go' and seemed a bit annoyed that I would do such a thing. I couldnt be bothered with a possible disagreement and didnt bother entering any of his further scores. They were both marking at least their own score down on a card, but I dont know if they marked each others scores as well. Neither of them ever really spoke about the scores as we went - never asked about what I'd scored on a hole which I found pretty strange, because I thought in competitions you had to mark someone elses scores - for verification purposes which makes total sense to me.
The outcome was that they both entered their scores after the round on IG app, I did the same and just confirmed PP A's scores that he'd put in without actually knowing if they were correct because I didnt bother asking. Both of their scores went in, and mine was on the live leaderboard, but has since disappeared, I'm not even on the results list as DQ'd or NR. I presume its not been logged because no one verified it, but I'm not sure, and neither PP mentioned anything after the round.
I'm going to speak to someone in the pro shop to find out where my score has gone - it doesnt really matter as I hadnt played well at all, I just found it strange how they went about the whole business of scoring.
A friend who also played the competition later told me that he found that you can enter your score on the app without anyone else verifying it - which he did and his score was submitted fine. So I'm presuming thats what my PP's did, which seems a bit odd, as without checking eachothers scores either on a card or the app, you could enter any score you like!?