Comp Tee Sheets

[didsbury_duffer]

I was just wondering how popular competitions are at your respective clubs, and how quickly do the tee-time sheets fill up? The members at our club are competition mad. Our sheets go up 2 weeks in advance, and the sheet for a singles stableford on Sat 20th Feb went up at 6:30 pm on Friday. By Saturday evening all 140 slots had been taken up. This is virtually the same all year for Saturday comps.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

We have drawn tee times between 8.00 and 9.40 which usually get taken up in full for all medals and stablefords. Once the booked times have gone you can roll up and there is usually a big greedy that goes out around 11 (usually 20-30 strong) and they usually draw balls to decide who plays together. All the main board events are fully drawn and there isn't usually a restriction. Things like club championship and captains day are always two tee starts.

 

[beck9965]

We have a stableford next week and there are 4 of us.

 

[Junior]

You can sign up in the clubhouse on the computer, or from the internet (we use masterscoreboard.co.uk . Slots between 8-10:30 go pretty quickly, but there are always times after that. The club I was at previously was a nightmare. The sheet would go up Thursday evening and by Friday evening it was full, you could only hand write you name against a time, and could only put your own name up....

 

[Taggart]

My current club and past clubs still use the old sheet on the board where you put your name up in a particular slot.

I would far prefer it if you just put your name down and your t time was more random. I feel this would create more of a competiton rather than people playing with the same groups all the time.

 

[Imurg]

My last club had the list go up - you put your name down and the groups were drawn. They do the same for weekend comps at my new one but the weekday ones are roll-up.

I'd be a bit miffed if I kept missing the comps just because I couldn't get my name down within an hour of the sheet going up. I'd consider moving club tbh...

 

[jammydodger]

We dont have comp slots at our place and it really annoys me. Any old codger or green fee can put their name down for any time they like , its open 2 weeks in advance. Even our club champs you can have the same old duffers playing right in the middle of it in their usual 10p if you can keep it under a hundred roll up. I would love it to be like some of you guys where the tee times were comp only and done in a draw....can only dream..

 

[Sailor]

Whooaaaaah! Don't be too much in a hurry to refer to "old duffers" and "old codgers". With a lot of good luck and health you will become one of them one day. It comes to a lot of us eventually.

I chip in because I am one of them (77) and I'm lucky to have a reasonable handicap still. Won our club's Saturday competition last week and played with the best amateur in the North of England on Saturday last weekend who plays off +3. We both play in the roll up during the week too on odd occasions

Not meaning to be offensive in any way, but it takes a little bit of practice to get from 4.8 to +3!

 

[jammydodger]

Welcome to the forums Sailor , hope you stay around and keep posting.

I take your point and in fairness I was rather generalising a bit. I apologise if i've caused offence to you directly. I couldnt care less what h/c people are I just object to people being allowed to play right in amongst a competition. It's the clubs fault and IMO detracts from the comp and is pushing me away from the club towards somewhere else that takes competitive golf a little more seriously.

 

[Twire]

Our comp tee sheets go up 2 weeks prior to the event on a saturday at precisely 5 o'clock and if your not there by 4:30 you won't get a tee time before 10

 

[forefortheday]

We have about 6 weeks worth of Comps up on the board you can usually get on anyone apart from that weeks if you haven't put your name down before Sunday.

We get 8-10 Saturday and Sunday,the thought of a Saturday roll up between 4 mates in the middle of a comp would make me leave to be honest.

 

[didsbury_duffer]

Thanks for all your comments, lads. Interesting to see what happens at different clubs. Following on from my OP, we never allow any other form of golf in the middle of our Saturday comps. Social golfers can only use the course after the last comp tee-time. We also have some form of comp EVERY Saturday in the year, and they are virtually always full, with only a few last minute cry-offs. Social golfers are allowed on the course in the middle of Wednesday comps, but only at specific times. As I said earlier, we are comp mad.

 

[User 105]

We usually have about 6 weeks of comps in the books. Some are drawn. You can put down an early, middle or late start preference. But recently they have had a few comps where you can pick your time.

They get drawn a few days before and you can usually ring up a day or two before and put you name down as a reserve if a space opens up. Otherwise you can just show up on the day and you are guaranteed to get out if you don't mind hanging around the 1st tee for 30 mins at worst.

I actually prefer the drawn comps as you get to play with different people. Was great when I first joined the club last year as I got to know a lot of the guys this way really quickly. Real good bunch.

 

[bigbiffa]

our sheets go up the sunday before the medal, however, there are a particular group who book up all the early morning tee slots, so you are unlikely to get a tee time before 11am, which is mildy irritating!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Our club shuts the competition about ten days before it's played and makes the draw which is posted on the noticeboard and the website. We never allow social golfers into the middle of the competition and the tee is booked to allow the competition priority. You can specify early middle or late and if you miss putting your name down you can go on a reserve list for the booked time. I'd rather the club did away with the roll up later in the day and made every event fully drawn

 

[Sailor]

Good response dodger. No personal offence taken!

In a way we both see things off the same level for I too do not like to be held up. I think that you are correct in that casual games should not mix with competitions. However slow play happens in all forms of golf and at all ages. Some of our slowest players are the young lads when in a four. Can't think how pros can achieve concentration in rounds of five and a half hours as is often common.

Try and influence your competitions committee rather than change clubs for that often costs another joining fee.