jpjeffery
Assistant Pro
SOMEHOW, I've got myself roped in to being vice competitions secretary (then subsequently found out that vice comp secs become comps secs, comp secs become vice captains, vice captains become captains...I didn't sign up for THIS!)
Rant over, my question is around the strictness of marking scorecards. We frequently get cards submitted that aren't 'perfect'.
The most common infraction is failure to confirm which tee they were using. Not far behind is either writing in the whole figure shots received in either the Handicap box, or the shots received box, but not the decimal place handicap figure (e.g. a 14.2 handicapper would have just written 14 in either the Handicap box or the Shots Received box).
There's no reason to suspect cheating here. We all know to use the whites, nobody plays alone, everyone plays to their handicap figure, and so on.
We've been educating the members by email - and will continue to do so - and the standard of scorecards has improved, but still we get these cards submitted with these silly bits of inaccuracy.
So, after that long preamble, how strict are you at your club? Do you always DQ for these kinds of mistakes (sometimes, if we were being strict the results list would be very short indeed!)?
Rant over, my question is around the strictness of marking scorecards. We frequently get cards submitted that aren't 'perfect'.
The most common infraction is failure to confirm which tee they were using. Not far behind is either writing in the whole figure shots received in either the Handicap box, or the shots received box, but not the decimal place handicap figure (e.g. a 14.2 handicapper would have just written 14 in either the Handicap box or the Shots Received box).
There's no reason to suspect cheating here. We all know to use the whites, nobody plays alone, everyone plays to their handicap figure, and so on.
We've been educating the members by email - and will continue to do so - and the standard of scorecards has improved, but still we get these cards submitted with these silly bits of inaccuracy.
So, after that long preamble, how strict are you at your club? Do you always DQ for these kinds of mistakes (sometimes, if we were being strict the results list would be very short indeed!)?