Club Matchplay Pains

[jimjoachim]

Its silly season again when you have too many matches to play in two short a time. Not to mention the matches for the club teams. Fast forward a month, ill be out of them all and wishing I wasn't.

"Organising" a match at the moment where the guy hasn't returned any of my messages/calls. Albeit the draw has been up for a month and I didn't get his number til last week.
I can see on imessage that he has read the messages!!
Deadline was yesterday. I could see an argument that we should both be scrubbed. What you reckon should happen?

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Does your club have any rules regarding arranging of matches? Typically it may be the top player has to contact the bottom player on the sheet and offer 3 dates, at least one of them a weekend......or similar. If you can prove you have tried to contact him but he has ignored you then I think you may have a case to take to your competition secretary.

This is the very reason I don't bother with these things anymore.

 

[patricks148]

Its silly season again when you have too many matches to play in two short a time. Not to mention the matches for the club teams. Fast forward a month, ill be out of them all and wishing I wasn't.

"Organising" a match at the moment where the guy hasn't returned any of my messages/calls. Albeit the draw has been up for a month and I didn't get his number til last week.
I can see on imessage that he has read the messages!!
Deadline was yesterday. I could see an argument that we should both be scrubbed. What you reckon should happen?

at my place bottom playeron the sheet is the challenger , so he should try and contact you but i often make contact as well. You are required to offer two dates, then if no reply, you turn up at the course at X time on Sunday and claim the tie

 

[jimjoachim]

Does your club have any rules regarding arranging of matches? Typically it may be the top player has to contact the bottom player on the sheet and offer 3 dates, at least one of them a weekend......or similar. If you can prove you have tried to contact him but he has ignored you then I think you may have a case to take to your competition secretary.

This is the very reason I don't bother with these things anymore.

No such rules. their also pretty generous with extensions. 5 separate matchplays kickoff around the same time and bang at the start of the golf team season.
I think they should stagger the starts a little!!!!

 

[Deleted member 1147]

I swear every year that I'm not playing the 4BBB matchplay, as getting 4 people together for a round is damn near impossible.
But then I get talked into it and curse myself for agreeing.

Fun to play once you're out on the course though.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

No such rules. their also pretty generous with extensions. 5 separate matchplays kickoff around the same time and bang at the start of the golf team season.
I think they should stagger the starts a little!!!!

OK...stick your name down for the next round on the sheet as a walkover and see if he contacts you then?

 

[Norrin Radd]

i have no doubt that at the end of the season somebody will have made it to the final of their ko and not played a single match to do so.

 

[patricks148]

i have no doubt that at the end of the season somebody will have made it to the final of their ko and not played a single match to do so.

funny you should say that

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Put your name down as winning, contact the club, show them your texts and messages if necessary and say you are claiming the game. They will soon tell you if you can't and let the other guy then argue it with the comp secretary

 

[Tarkus1212]

At my place the responsibility for arranging the match is on both players equally, if its not played then both players are scratched. No extensions either, they're very strict on that. I assume if one player can prove he/she has made every effort to arrange then consideration might be given to giving them a walkover, I don't know because everyone knows the rule when they sign up and in twelve years or so I've never had a problem (but then I'm usually out after round one).

 

[GB72]

Totally gave up on these comps a few years ago because I was simply not around enough to make it fair. I am not home from work until 6.30 in the week at the earliest and so weekday rounds are out and so that just leaves weekends and all it takes is a couple of family commitments to crop up and I cannot always play then. Given my circumstances, it is really not fair on everyone else to enter and expect them to fit in around me given my schedule.

I do think that it is important for people to look at their own availability before committing to enter these comps as that seems to be the main cause of the problem, people not being realistic with how available they are or expecting everyone else to fit in with the limited slots where they play every week.

Personally I would love it if clubs put aside tee times on one day a month for all of these matches to take place. Removes all arguments and limits arranging to booking an available tee slot.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

One of the many reasons I don't enter too many matchplay comps.

Generally I enter the scratch knockout, lose in the first round and don't have to worry about it anymore.