Missed tee time question

[Colin L]

Completely unrelated issues. What the club decides appropriate to amending a tee time is up to them entirely.
The application of the rules to a situation is subject to the rules.

Precisely. Del, there is a huge difference between a player phoning in with a reason why he is going to be late and being allocated to a later group and a player's being late for his appointed tee time. The criteria for waiving a DQ for the latter are very stringent.

Of course, if he is allocated to a later group he has a new start time.

 

[chrisd]

I know rules are rules, and if they are broken then I get there are penalties, but, it does take some special kind of person to want someone who has played better in a scratch competition to be disqualified so that he can take a prize that, in everyone's eyes, is tainted. I know I wouldn't want it on my mantelpiece!

 

[Old Skier]

As you say rules is rules and the problem that occur when they aren't followed can produce the odd green eyed monster but that's what happens when people make decisions on the fly especially if there do happen to be specific laid down rules for a specific comp.

 

[the smiling assassin]

I played in an 18 hole open a few years ago. I phoned the secretary the morning before to confirm my tee time and wrote it down in my diary as he told me - 9:54 (I'd requested 9:30). Drove 170 miles, arrived the evening before. Arrived at the club just after nine and was greeted by the starter who said, where have you been...you've just missed your tee time...8:54. I played in a later group, shot a decent round good enough for 3rd place and in the prizes. Handicap committee member had been briefed and was in the bar (absolutely hammered) when I got in. I was duly DQd. Didn't seem particularly fair. There was nothing more I could have done short of accidentally arrive early enough to find out I was due on the tee. C'est la vie I guess.