Jigger
Club Champion
Firstly, I love opens. It’s a cheap way of playing a new course so I usually go with the attitude that I don’t care if I’m way off the mark in terms of winning. However, when we’ve won prizes it’s been a real mixed bag.
A mate had previously won £70 and all the club had was a snack shop so he ended up buying a years worth of snickers! On the other side, I’d won a local comp at £120. I called the shop and they ordered and sent out some footjoys. Job done! However we‘ve won recently won a Texas at Roxburgh this year and the prize was a box of pro Vs and £75 each. Amazing! thats where the story turns. We emailed the shop to see if we could get some balls sent down and they wanted to charge £15 a sleeve before we even discussed delivery as “they didn’t sell them by the dozen”. At the time this was £15 more than RRP so we held on to the voucher. We’ve since been playing a course nearby and popped into the shop to find they were selling a dozen balls for £50 (present rrp)!
What have your experiences been like? Have you felt you were getting ripped off? Should opens move to online shop vouchers for ease? Especially given people travel to them from far and wide.
A mate had previously won £70 and all the club had was a snack shop so he ended up buying a years worth of snickers! On the other side, I’d won a local comp at £120. I called the shop and they ordered and sent out some footjoys. Job done! However we‘ve won recently won a Texas at Roxburgh this year and the prize was a box of pro Vs and £75 each. Amazing! thats where the story turns. We emailed the shop to see if we could get some balls sent down and they wanted to charge £15 a sleeve before we even discussed delivery as “they didn’t sell them by the dozen”. At the time this was £15 more than RRP so we held on to the voucher. We’ve since been playing a course nearby and popped into the shop to find they were selling a dozen balls for £50 (present rrp)!
What have your experiences been like? Have you felt you were getting ripped off? Should opens move to online shop vouchers for ease? Especially given people travel to them from far and wide.