SeveDay - Are They Bandits?

Colin L said:
Are there any gentlemen of the Press on to this? It would a good article.
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I think any article would have to be very carefully written. This is associated with Seve and also for a good cause so you would need to be careful how you 'criticised' the organisers for allowing this situation to arise.
 
I see that point, but the focus of everyone's outrage is the dishonest participants who are abusing the charity and the good name of Seve. That would be my line. The organisers, at worst, are guilty of a remarkable naivety.
 
Whilst the participants have been rightly lambasted for such ridiculous scores, surely the organisers have to accept responsibility for such a debacle as this. Their inability to forsee that such a scoring trend would be possible when non competitive rounds were played is astonishing. How anyone could be allowed to enter a 'competition' with a self appointed handicap and played at any time, anywhere is beyond me.

Their wee pop-up note about the email complaints is as good as an admission that they got is seriously wrong.

As for the participants.... sorry I just can't explain my feelings on them without invoking the automatic sweary filter :rant:
 
Are they actually a member of Sale Golf club? Lots of recorded rounds there but none to show they're a member anywhere .... Particularly as their handicap has always been the same.
 
I play of 22. Trying my best to play well enough to get it down as I know I have a mid teens game somewhere in me. Best I've returned over 18 with a card has been 36 points. For some reason I really choke on comp days. I have managed a 44 during a bounce game.
 
This really is disgraceful, I have been following this on Twitter this morning. The comments from the organisers are a joke and really no recompense to the honest golfers who may be missing out. There really needs to be some media investigation into this (and you may as well add the accusations of banditry in other national golf competitions as well) as this is an embarrassment to the legend whose name is on the competition. If I were the Seve Foundation (or one of the big name golf companies who have shown support for this) I would be asking for my name to be removed from the competition unless it is sorted.

This may sound a bit extreme but, if you look at it from a strict legal sense, if any score entered is shown to be false (and that is very hard given the lack lustre rules) then the person submitting it and the person signing the card are involved in an attempt to defraud. From then on it stops being a simple case of banditry and becomes a criminal matter.
 
BTatHome said:
Are they actually a member of Sale Golf club? Lots of recorded rounds there but none to show they're a member anywhere .... Particularly as their handicap has always been the same.
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I am advised by a normally reliable source that a S Varma (there may be more than one with that name) appears on CDH as a member of Sale golf club with an active handicap of 27.8
 
I have to admit to knocking in round in 2-over gross off 13 - nett 59. Was a qualifying medal for what was the Golf World Club Golfer of the Year comp (I'm guessing for 1985 or '86). Best 60 nett scores across all UK clubs entering got you into the final and my 59 got me in (held at Tewkesbury Park G&CC). Worst nett was 60. But my nett 59 was probably only 47 points!! 62!

Also pretty sure one of my Sat morning roll-up group recently shot 52 pts off a high teens handicap. Was off yellow tees not comp tees though and that makes a BIG difference around our place.
 
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She has her own website with some interesting photos along with a letter posted on it of from the seve organising committee congratulating her.

If you look at her previous scores she has broken 80 on more than one occasion.
 
Hi guys,

My first post on your forum, i was led to it by twitter when reading about the serious outrage caused by the seve day leader board.

Great to see so many people as disgusted i am about it, i had a score of 41 points in and played out my skin to get that!! i honestly thought i had a good chance of making it but to go on and see some of the scores posted made me sick quite frankly. To have the great mans name put next to this shambles is a real shame!! Im sure he will be turning in his grave.


I made a point of making sure my scorecard was put in off a club medal and verified with the club, marker and posted on howdidido, i think this should be made compulsery for next time or it'll be the same shambles again.
 
I was out in the garden contemplating the mysteries of life and the universe, as one does when gardening, when it occurred to me that to score 62 points, I would need 8 net eagles and 10 net birdies. Not a bad day at the office that would be. :whistle:
 
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