Both things cannot be true, and more to the point, how do OpenPlay members get monitored?
The h'cap c'ee has always run a tight ship. Tee booking and IT pre WHS has made a major contribution to the workload. Tee number of c'ee members has reduced and they only meet as and when required. Unscheduled h'cap adjustments are done on the run by phone or email. All general play scores are predeclared and booked in the software. They are monitored in much the same way as Supplementary Scores were (ie return card to pro). We don't use the EG app.
I assume you monitor the GP scores entered on the EG App played on your course by visitors?
I don't know enough about the EG app to know if we would be aware of its use. But aren't those scores the responsibility of the players' clubs?
How can you prevent general play scores being entered on the app? You may not use the app but you cannot stop other members from doing so, can you?
I put in a few GP scores for a while but it's a hassle. Club members generally don't play 18, or even 9, holes with a view to holing out on every hole. We play matches, often 4bbb, and we often don't play the full 18. If someone announces, on the 1st tee, that they are doing a score we laugh.
Pre declaring and post return of cards prevents members from using the EG app to update handicap records.
Here in Ireland our Golf Ireland app requires you to enable location services so it can tell where you are when you select a course and tee prior to teeing off. You then submit your score at least, I think 3, hours later and select an attester. Hopefully that attester has played with you but I'm not sure if that can be proven. Anyway it's not foolproof but has some protection.
My home club doesn't ask for return of cards. How? Isn't it dotgolf as well? You've got to pre-declare in Scotland, and that's the master record isn't it? Third party apps aren't updating your handicaps, they're transfering your scores to England golf
Completely opposite way around at our place & we'd be wondering what it is you're trying to hide!
I think this backs up what’s happened at mine.
No, how would the player’s club know if the attester was present on the day? Only the club itself has this information.
How does the club have this information? It's not possible for a club to know everything about who's playing and when and therefore not its responsibility.
A lot of clubs have a full time booking system so they know how much traffic they get and when the busy and slack times are.
I think I've responded in kind to a similar statement earlier in this thread. I know of nobody, absolutely nobody, who has willingly paid over their comp entry fee and then gone and played, with the intention of not trying to play their best golf or even, as is being insinuated, actively plays badly.