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Very glad you won but cannot believe the clubs ruling ! Absolute joke and can't help but reinforce my frustration at the current status of golf and some of the ridiculous and outdated rulings.
 

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Congratulations. Now go and win the final and get your names on the wall. It's very satisfying walking into the clubhouse & seeing your name up there, good luck. (y)
 
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Then park your buggy in the h/c conveners parking space :devilish:
The plot thickens she has only been chair of h,caps and comps for two months. She was in the pro shop when I arrived this morning and was disqualifying 15 members from Saturdays comp for not paying their comp entry fees by Friday night and paying in the pro shop on Saturday. She must have read the book ‘ how to make enemies and cheese people off’ it’s comical.
 
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Congratulations. Now go and win the final and get your names on the wall. It's very satisfying walking into the clubhouse & seeing your name up there, good luck. (y)
If you get your name on the wall ,will it have a little B next to it like the wet laps on Top Gear?

Well done ,beware the injured golfer!!
 

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The plot thickens she has only been chair of h,caps and comps for two months. She was in the pro shop when I arrived this morning and was disqualifying 15 members from Saturdays comp for not paying their comp entry fees by Friday night and paying in the pro shop on Saturday. She must have read the book ‘ how to make enemies and cheese people off’ it’s comical.
Simple answer is to make the club aware of her actions especially if they aren't in line with competition entry rules. Well done on the win and get the trophy and then decide on your next move but if it was me I'd be making it my swansong and finding a far better run club
 
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I have a feeling there is a few people grinning from ear to ear at your club and a few people gutted you are in the final. Chuffed to bits for you. If you win the final, can I pen your victory speech.
 
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I have a feeling there is a few people grinning from ear to ear at your club and a few people gutted you are in the final. Chuffed to bits for you. If you win the final, can I pen your victory speech.
My speech ( hopefully)!
Will be littered with passive agressive quips and a double portion of sarcasm. All there for all to hear. Priceless also incase the golfing gods are listening I am in no way suggesting that I may win the final. Just saying!!
 

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The plot thickens she has only been chair of h,caps and comps for two months. She was in the pro shop when I arrived this morning and was disqualifying 15 members from Saturdays comp for not paying their comp entry fees by Friday night and paying in the pro shop on Saturday. She must have read the book ‘ how to make enemies and cheese people off’ it’s comical.

From the two examples (medical cert policy & comp entry fees) I cant decide if the comps were poorly run/administrated previously and members were happy with that approach or if the current committee have other requirements for sticking to the established comp rules

Well done on your win
 

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Congratulations on the win and getting into the final, does your certificate allow you to use a buggy in the final or is that another £275?
I also liked the chair of h,caps and comps (for 2 months) disqualified 15 members from the Saturday comp........ she will go far in your club im sure!
 
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Congratulations on the win and getting into the final, does your certificate allow you to use a buggy in the final or is that another £275?
I also liked the chair of h,caps and comps (for 2 months) disqualified 15 members from the Saturday comp........ she will go far in your club im sure!
Thankfully I have unlimited buggy use now. Ironically they weren’t willing to accept a letter from a consultant to allow me to use a buggy and also accept my word as a Gentleman golfer that I needed it so I could play.

I can now play with a buggy Indefinitely and they are willing to rely on my sense of fair play to stop using the buggy when my symptoms cease. Obvs. I will because I don’t like using buggies but just further proves how rediculous the whole situation is.

I give her a few months!!
 

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Thankfully I have unlimited buggy use now. Ironically they weren’t willing to accept a letter from a consultant to allow me to use a buggy and also accept my word as a Gentleman golfer that I needed it so I could play.

I can now play with a buggy Indefinitely and they are willing to rely on my sense of fair play to stop using the buggy when my symptoms cease. Obvs. I will because I don’t like using buggies but just further proves how rediculous the whole situation is.

I give her a few months!!
Good news and even more daft that they now ignore the written guidance of a consultant and take your own word for it. What a waste of time and money and they've mucked you about royally as well as making you recover from hefty open wallet surgery to stump up for the letter to play. I reckon the handicap chair will be in the role a month at most! I bet there are already rumblings of discontent
 

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Good news and even more daft that they now ignore the written guidance of a consultant and take your own word for it. What a waste of time and money and they've mucked you about royally as well as making you recover from hefty open wallet surgery to stump up for the letter to play. I reckon the handicap chair will be in the role a month at most! I bet there are already rumblings of discontent

I’m not so sure Homer

While the club appear to have been pretty inflexible in applying their comp rules, the rule itself came from somewhere, it hasn’t just been thought up last week specifically to annoy £275 buggy hire and I wonder if the club are getting a bit more stick than they deserve

No one made £275 buggy hire spend the money, he chose to spend it in order not to let his partner down & to make a point to the club, (all credit to him I doubt I would have) however:
The club didn’t give £275 buggy hire 3 days to get a certificate signed, it was £275 buggy hire who gave the club just three days’ notice that he wanted to use a buggy (which he knew wasn’t normally permitted) but he didn’t have the any certificate/report to the club, just correspondence between patient/consultant & GP) and so forced them into a snap judgment on whether the various bits of email/letters were sufficient for an exemption (which in my opinion they got wrong) but; it was the OP who created much of the circumstances requiring the decision to even need to be made, because while it was clearly important to him last Tuesday, it seemingly didn’t occur to £275 buggy hire to ask for any type of certificate/letter addressed to the golf club when he last met/corresponded with the consultant… despite the fact they discussed playing golf… and the consultant even saying he was ok to play golf!

I’d agree with the majority & say the club have made an error in judgment but sorry to say to £275 buggy hire, so did you
 

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@£275 buggy hire
One walking, one riding, I’ve never had that; what was the playing experience like driving round while your partner walked etc. Did he tend to walk with the other pairing or did you slow down to his pace and stick beside him?

Did you have any close calls where your partner nearly sat in the cart by accident or was it pretty smooth sailing from a rules perspective?

Well done again on the win, whens the final
 
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My speech ( hopefully)!
Will be littered with passive agressive quips and a double portion of sarcasm. All there for all to hear. Priceless also incase the golfing gods are listening I am in no way suggesting that I may win the final. Just saying!!
If you win I hope your opponents don't take offence, have you seen the clip about the punch up in South Africa? :eek:
 
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