Yeah, same here, I've never heard of it. To be honest I rarely ever hand in a signed card anyway, I think they only care about that for the people who are up the top and have earned pro shop credit. Several times I've accidentally gone home with the card still in my pocket and nothing has come of it. As long as you've entered your score in the app that is.
Frankly, in this modern age, once you have inputted the score via the computer and it has been confirmed and vetted by your pp, that should be the end of it. A frequently illegible scribble on a card should not be required.
Even better in future they could go to the model of completely ditching cards altogether and making it all digital. Imagine how much a club could save on needless printing and how much better it would be as a whole if all clubs across the uk weren’t using paper based cards.
This is a discussion that has been had before, I agree with you. If anyone wants to take this subject further, please start a new thread as we do not want to disrupt this one. I know from previous discussions on this, we can fill a few pages in no time
If the Mods will allow one response to the cost of printing cards ( I think Lord Tyrion may be referring to a new thread about digital v hard copy score returns debate), our card printing model , and perhaps many others, pays us to have cards printed. We get a cash sum from the advertising revenue from the card printer, we do not pay anything to the printer. I realise that opens up the ‘green’ debate, but I’m just trying to correct a misconception.
As LT mentioned it’s not the thread for it but my point isn’t based on costs to club. It’s based on doing more for the environment it all adds up especially if it becomes compulsory cross the golfing world, theres a lot of paper to be saved I even know the figures but as mentioned it’s for another thread so on that I’ll bow out unless someone creates said thread.
The question is, of course, whether the offence of forgetting to sign is so egregious that it merits a DQ. The MLR doesn't exonerate the player but gives us the opportunity to say that a moment's carelessness isn't that bad and that a 2 stroke penalty is enough. Which is presumably the opinion of Golf Canada as it on its hard card.
No. A "hard card" is terminology for what are "standard Local Rules" put in place for all competitions run by that organization (in this case, Golf Canada). You can view it at this link...
I didn't see yours before I posted mine.
The problem is at our club is that there are several different ways of completing a card and not all are guaranteed to work.
It is also on the PGA Tour hard card.
By the tech, do you mean your pencil, because that is all that should be required.
It's maybe all that should be required but when the emphasis is on returning electronically to facilitate the compiling of scores but it fails a pencil is only any use for shoving where the sun don't shine.
And also on the hard cards of Scottish Golf, England Golf, Golf Ireland, the European Golf Association, Golf Australia, the R&A and the USGA.... maybe more!
You can be required to submit your score both on a physical card and by electronic means but only one method can be the way in which you must return your score for the competition. The Committee has to specify how a score is to be returned - on a physical card or an electronic one. Whichever one is chosen is the one subject to the requirements of Rule 3.3b with a penalty for not meeting them. It can also require the player to record his score in the non-chosen way but that is not subject to 3.3b and no penalty can be applied to his score for not doing so. Thus, if you are required to return your score on a physical card you can also be asked to record it electronically for, say, handicapping purposes but if you forget to put it into the computer there is no golf penalty. And vice versa.
My point is that when the tech fails there are significant numbers who wont bother to use alternative means particularly where they have not had a great day.. If you've had a slow medal round with indifferent scoring and then the method for entering your score fails who is going to diligently try something else, rather than saying sod this for a game of soldiers and not bothering.
