Missing a tee slot booking

[philly169]

Our club is running an 8 event Xmas Stableford comp, with 2 full weekends (sat and sun) and 4 single Sundays. Bookings for tee times on weekends start to get taken the following weekend, so booking a week in advanced. After 30 minutes of the pro shop being open on Sunday there are hardly any times left, mainly 12.58pm on Sunday, leaving you with around 3 hours until it gets to dark to play.

So today we managed push on from our 12.58 time and obtained a greenslot, very few available but its a first come first serve basis on the day and we managed to get 9.22am, great. Turned up to the course at 8.45, car park is fairly empty. 3 people on the range, no one on the tee and 1 or 2 on the putting green... Great showing for a fully booked day. We tee of 3 ball infront with no one infront of them and no one behind us...

We get through 5 or 6 holes and the course seems lifeless, no ones on the course.

My question, if you book a tee time a week in advance and fail to turn up should you be penalised by the club?

Anyone else have this issue? If I have a time booked and I know I can't make it anymore, I call up and cancel it...

 

[RobbOnTheRock]

Yes, penalise no shows...........3 strikes, then no oppurtunity to book prime times for 3 months..........it's crap and disrespectful to others.

 

[Whee]

We have stuff like this happening all the time. Thursday was absolutely rammed in the book, we got 10:32 but managed to get away with another 2 ball by about 10:15 - it was pretty much millionaire's golf all the way round. The club never seem to stop people booking, regardless of their track record.

They have just started making people pay for their medal round in advance though, cos we would usually end up with about 20 no shows.

People just have very little consideration for others.

 

[Imurg]

Disrepectful.
I can go down to my club any weekday from now till April knowing the tee is booked according to t'internet but walk straight on due to timewasters.
Peasents the lot of them.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I guess thats the joy of not having booked times and I can roll up and go out. We do have a system in place if you pull out of booked comp times though without calling (i.e. just don't turn up). You get one warning and then its a months ban from comps

 

[brendy]

Today is Remembrance Sunday dont forget, a lot of guys do not play. Our course is closed until 12pm each year. (some would be put off by the recent poor weather too)

 

[SwingSlow]

Our club is now logging no shows, which is good as there have been too many times when I've had to go later than I wanted only to find the preceding three supposedly booked tee slots empty.

 

[RichardC]

On the whole at mine they have the the following Sunday's start sheet in the stud bar on Sunday's. If you put your name up and fail to take your name off/don't turn up there is the threat to suspend for one competition (not sure if it's been done or not)

 

[philly169]

Its probably a difficult thing to in force I suppose, its just very frustrating when your going in for a competition to find you cant get a tee, but on the day theres spaces.. not fun.

 

[Imurg]

Today is Remembrance Sunday dont forget, a lot of guys do not play.

So they obviously forgot too..........

It's not like Remembrance Day isn't advertised.........

 

[philly169]

So they obviously forgot too..........

It's not like Remembrance Day isn't advertised.........

we observed the minutes silence on the fairway of our 8th, we tee'd off about 5 to 11 and stopped in the fairway to pay our respects.

 

[RobbOnTheRock]

So they obviously forgot too..........

It's not like Remembrance Day isn't advertised.........

Agreed, not cancelling a tee time is utter pish..........especially for Saturday or Sunday am times.........

 

[Pongo]

If the weather takes a turn for the worse it's fair enough to not bother. Other than that nothing short of a public flogging will do for these bad apples. Show the scoundrels no mercy.

 

[brendy]

So they obviously forgot too..........

It's not like Remembrance Day isn't advertised.........

Only playing the Devils Advocate, I wouldnt book then forget a time, if I couldnt make it, I would log on and amend it.