A question of procedure or not....

[Deadlydan]

Earlier this year, committee decided that a certain number of players had to enter a comp for it to be a sponsored comp, any less than this and it would revert to an ordinary comp. One particularly crappy day three of us went out late and we could see that it would not be a sponsored comp unless more came along, no names on timesheet and weather worsening. We went out and gave up after ten holes,only to find later that due to backlog of events caused by the bad weather that the result of this comp was going to be sponsored and worse, a golfer of year points comp!discretion was used to make this judgement call, no hint of impropriety but what I'm wondering is if discretion can be used like this....?

 

[duncan mackie]

sponsored comp, ordunary comp and golfer of the year points are not phrases that appear in either the Rules of Golf or the CONGU manual.....

so you are back to the club rules, the club competition rules etc - which will be fully documented and include details of any discretion available, to whom and when.

well they should be...

 

[Deadlydan]

Thanks Duncan
I will have to check that out.
Can the ladies make different club rules from ours or is it the same for all in a particular club?

 

[Colin L]

Can the ladies make different club rules from ours ......?

You really have to ask a question like that?

 

[Deadlydan]

Ya if I knew the answer I wouldn't....like we play the same course fella

 

[Colin L]

Sorry, just a joke aimed at the ladies' well-known ability to do many things their own way.

The serious answer is that I suppose in a members' club, what the members agree is what happens. So if it is agreed, I expect that the ladies, or the juniors, or the seniors or any group within the club can have different competitions and different Conditions of Competition.

 

[Deadlydan]

No probs
That answer I can relate to!
Thanks for your imput

 

[Colin L]

You're welcome. My earlier answer I can relate to as well

 

[North Mimms]

What do you mean by a sponsored comp?

 

[Deadlydan]

What do you mean by a sponsored comp?

A comp where the prizes are put up by a sponsor who duly gets credit for it, otherwise the club puts up standard (and smaller!) prizes,don't you have this ?