Away card registration

[DeanoMK]

Hello. I played 3 rounds in Portugal and brought the cards back as I wanted to enter them on my WHS record. I gave them to my club but the handicap guy has come back and said I didn't declare to him in advance that I would be submitting GP cards.

As I understood it, I didn't need to inform the club beforehand and that by announcing to my playing partners I wanted to enter the round, that was my 'pre-registration'.

Have I got this wrong?

Thanks

 

[nickjdavis]

Unfortunately, in the absence of any electronic method of pre-registering, the process for pre-registering a round is determined by your club.

Whilst announcing to your playing partners on the first tee that your intention was to submit the cards for handicap might seem a reasonable way to proceed, if they are not part of the vetting/validation/registration/returning process, then it is difficult to really argue with your handicap sec in my opinion. He has no way to determine if your desire to return the cards was pre-meditated or not....I'm sure he doesn't mean to doubt your integrity (and neither do I) but he's in a bit of a difficult situation.

 

[DeanoMK]

Unfortunately, in the absence of any electronic method of pre-registering, the process for pre-registering a round is determined by your club.

Whilst announcing to your playing partners on the first tee that your intention was to submit the cards for handicap might seem a reasonable way to proceed, if they are not part of the vetting/validation/registration/returning process, then it is difficult to really argue with your handicap sec in my opinion. He has no way to determine if your desire to return the cards was pre-meditated or not....I'm sure he doesn't mean to doubt your integrity (and neither do I) but he's in a bit of a difficult situation.

Totally understandable, I do wish the WHS was truly global, it does seem like a glaringly obvious flaw.

Thanks for your reply.

 

[rulie]

Totally understandable, I do wish the WHS was truly global, it does seem like a glaringly obvious flaw.

Thanks for your reply.

Are you sure it's a WHS flaw, or is it just a national authority requirement?

 

[IanM]

Are you sure it's a WHS flaw, or is it just a national authority requirement?

Good question. Have "they" not been able to make access available in more locations, or don't want to for whatever reason?

"Flaw" can mean shortcoming of I.T build, as well as intent.

I was overseas earlier this month, the option to key a card would have been nice. It's good to have a record of your travels.

 

[rulie]

I am able to post scores from any course around the world that has a course rating and slope rating, and no "preregistration" is required.

 

[Swango1980]

When I went to France a couple of years ago, I informed my handicap sec before I left I'd submit all 6 rounds. Job done.

Worked very well for me, because I emailed a photo of card after every round, and he submitted score and my handicap was updated for next round. I was lucky as he was able to do that

 

[DeanoMK]

When I went to France a couple of years ago, I informed my handicap sec before I left I'd submit all 6 rounds. Job done.

Worked very well for me, because I emailed a photo of card after every round, and he submitted score and my handicap was updated for next round. I was lucky as he was able to do that

Yeah, definitely a lesson learnt for me, they were all decent scores as well, which is frustrating.

 

[IanM]

I am able to post scores from any course around the world that has a course rating and slope rating, and no "preregistration" is required.

So why would the Canadian version allow this, and no others (that I'm aware of) do likewise?

Hence your comment about requirement...

 

[D-S]

So why would the Canadian version allow this, and no others (that I'm aware of) do likewise?

Hence your comment about requirement...

As said many times WHS is a global framework but there are local idiosyncrasies. For example some countries have matchplay and team comps as acceptable scores. Some have limits on GP card submission. Some insist on pre registration by a method agreed at a club level, some don’t.
The bones however are the same everywhere, 8 out of 20, calculation of differential, course rating protocols etc.

EG have been promising us wider spread usage of the app to places such as Spain and Portugal for the past 3 years, but no sign of it as well as other improvements like geofencing attesters.