Recent content by twrmgoat

It was, I watched the last hour again. What an amazing datpy it was. As a huge Rory fan the original watch was incredibly tense. Still think he was a bit unlucky with that original wedge to 18 - just seemed to drift right. My granddaughter born 3 hours later 😀

Sounds like your experts have considered the possibility that someone has a program that uses an API to book a time ( as opposed to using the app or web front end). My assumption is that the automation is via the front end, ie automating the app navigation and data entry. Is that not correct?

What if they had never submitted a GP score, and then submitted a 9 hole score the day before, to force their best score off and get another shot in the match to come. It’s clearly manipulation. But not enough for committee to rule it out?

Wrong word I guess. I’ve got no problem with applying the rules, and do so frequently.

I suggested that we adopt it but ret of committee didn’t want it. Same with suggestion I learnt off here to define returning card as leaving the club (to get round the ‘I’ve just put my card in the box but I didn’t sign it’ problem). But everyone moans when people get DQed for card bureaucracy.

In this day and age it should be trivial to set up polls and such like to get much more accurate feedback from clubs than the hierarchy you’ve presented here.

Well they should make greater efforts to have up to date data then. They could easily do it if they wanted to. And presumably feedback from seminars is only from those that have correct contact addresses, as that is how they issue invites? I think it would be much better to get views from...

Start: 4.1 End : 3.5 High: 4.7 Low: 2.3 Best season ever, never been lower than 4 before, not bad at 61. Summer off work helped 😂 Our club had twice as many reductions than increases. Helped by good weather and fast conditions.

No. forward winter tees,not a rated course. We play off mats averywhere, or move to side of fairway with preferrred lie. Wet course, often nit able to differentiate fairway from rough. Works fine, we play qualifiers from end Of march to end October.

Well that assertion is certainly not true in the case of our club. I don’t think it would be that difficult to run a proper consultation. England golf have the email address of every Handicap Secretary in the country. I don’t really accept the ‘confusion’ argument. It isn’t really that much of...

It depends on the number of entrants and their handicaps. Could be either. This is well documented- see R&A Rules of handicapping. Which is why it makes sense to be able to vary the allowance.

Trying to prioritise simplicity over fairness will never work in the long run.

So this feedback was from these county officials then? Why not ask clubs what they think?

Did they actually make an announcement? I thought it was just hearsay. Dreadful decision not to implement this if you are correct.

Thanks all, that’s clear. Had missed that.