jpjeffery
Assistant Pro
We use online entry for our Monthly Medals (plus a few other comps when there's no carbon-based unit available to fulfil the scorer duties), for which we ask that the marker enters the player's score via the MasterScoreboard webpage after agreeing the scores with the player after completing the 18th.
Usually this goes well.
Over the weekend one of our players (we'll call him Max) submitted a score of gross 90 net 77, which for him is not a score that would flag up any interest for me to check the online scorecard (the only cards I actually looked at were two NRs, just to make sure they'd submitted the scores for the holes they'd actually completed).
After I published the results Max announced to our club WhatsApp group that his score was wrong...by an additional EIGHT shots! (i.e. his score was gross 82 net 69)...and sent images of his scorecard
I asked him who entered his score, to which he said that he did it himself.
The first 12 holes were correct, but then he entered...
So overall the score he entered was higher than he played, but was made up of three holes that were lower than he played, plus two that were higher than he played.
Fortunately his net 69 still wasn't enough to win, so no harm done there, and we'd prefer his card to be accurate in order for his WHS HI to not be skewed the wrong way by the incorrect score.
But, what's the rulebook ruling here?
Usually this goes well.
Over the weekend one of our players (we'll call him Max) submitted a score of gross 90 net 77, which for him is not a score that would flag up any interest for me to check the online scorecard (the only cards I actually looked at were two NRs, just to make sure they'd submitted the scores for the holes they'd actually completed).
After I published the results Max announced to our club WhatsApp group that his score was wrong...by an additional EIGHT shots! (i.e. his score was gross 82 net 69)...and sent images of his scorecard
I asked him who entered his score, to which he said that he did it himself.
The first 12 holes were correct, but then he entered...
- a 2 instead of a 5
- 16 instead of 4 (that's not a typo on my part!)
- 4 instead of 6
- 3 instead of 4
- 5 instead of 3
So overall the score he entered was higher than he played, but was made up of three holes that were lower than he played, plus two that were higher than he played.
Fortunately his net 69 still wasn't enough to win, so no harm done there, and we'd prefer his card to be accurate in order for his WHS HI to not be skewed the wrong way by the incorrect score.
But, what's the rulebook ruling here?