SeveDay - Are They Bandits?

HomerJSimpson said:
. Interesting to see Varma has been D/Q'd. Where was that taken from as she hasn't changed her blog page so would appear to be blissfully unaware of the latest twist. I wonder if the others will get kicked out as well. Is there an official explanation anywhere
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her DQ is listed on the updated leaderboard Martin, use link in OP .. so now they realy have opened a can of worms for themselves tho , so what happens now if they recieve a flood of complaints re the others.. they have made a farce of it



EDIT or just use colins link below ha ..
 
After looking at her blog (as said above, not safe for work), it's tempting to think that the whole thing is a piss take. Her site and the pictures are a joke, but after googling her she does seem to be serious. The sad part is she has so little understanding of golf to have tried to deceive the organisers this outrageously. Given the very relaxed criteria, any one of us would have known that we could easily had submitted a card with around 45-48 points and been able to pull the wool over enough people's eyes. A shame that people like this have to come along and ruin what was a well intended, but poorly structured, charity event. I hope that the organisers are looking seriously at booting the next scores of 55 down to perhaps 49 as well. The 55 at least is really is no less laughable.
 
OldMate said:
After looking at her blog (as said above, not safe for work),
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I have just checked her site out also, just in the interests of being fully informed :whistle:

Quite frankly I am disgusted, her 62 points is a crime against golf, the picture of her in her pants is a crime against humanity :o


I'm never going to rid myself of that image, it's burned onto my retina's:D
 
Some correspondance on her page ,,,,

following dozens of phone calls, sms, linkedin messages and facebook comments about “why have I been disqualified from the Seve Day golf final?” – it is because:
“Dear Shanu,
Thank you for your email regarding your score of 62 Stableford points. As you know there has been some concern about the score you submitted for a number of weeks but your explanation would appear to resolve the matter.
It is with regret, however, that we have come to the conclusion to disqualify you from the competition on the grounds that you submitted an incorrect score as well as playing the event in the wrong format, which was clearly a singles competition.
The deadline for submitting scores has now passed so I am afraid you would be unable to re-enter the competition.
I am extremely sorry but we feel we have no other option. We have gone to great lengths over the previous weeks to unravel how it was someone could record 62 Stableford points. I have emailed your playing partner, spoken to both you and Sale Golf Club on a number of occasions and it is only now that the mistake has come to light. I appreciate that it was an entirely honest mistake but this is a charity competition and we must therefore be seen to operate with complete transparency, in the best interest of the sport and in the memory of Seve’s ongoing legacy.
Thank you very much for your support.
Regards,
The Seve Day Team.”
Yesterday I received an email from the competition organiser, I had queried the card as it said 62 points, and sent Seve Day an email:
“It is quite embarrassing the competitions organiser has just rung to clarify that the card that was submitted was in fact for 2 players, the format of the competition was
”stableford choose partners.”
They had worked out my score as being 44 points and my playing partner scoring 18 points, thus resulting in a total combined stableford score of 62 points.
Do you wish me to submit a corrected score card?
Shanu”
Having received the disqualification email I sent a further email to them:
“Hi Rupert
Sorry sent from my phone and accidentally pressed send before could finish it.
Thankyou for your email – in the email (below) you have put that I was disqualified due to“playing the event in the wrong format” but there is a message on the site which says that you opened up the competition to scores “submitted from any round”- so I don’t understand how this can be used in order to disqualify me.
I would like you to reconsider in the light of the following:
1) was an honest mistake
2) my club has confirmed of the 62 points I scored 44
3) you have a number of players who are playing off 44 so I would be happy to play off a score of 44 as well
I feel that this solution would maintain the integrity of the competition
Shanu
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device”
 
bladeplayer said:
Some correspondance on her page ,,,,

following dozens of phone calls, sms, linkedin messages and facebook comments about “why have I been disqualified from the Seve Day golf final?” – it is because:
“Dear Shanu,
Thank you for your email regarding your score of 62 Stableford points. As you know there has been some concern about the score you submitted for a number of weeks but your explanation would appear to resolve the matter.
It is with regret, however, that we have come to the conclusion to disqualify you from the competition on the grounds that you submitted an incorrect score as well as playing the event in the wrong format, which was clearly a singles competition.
The deadline for submitting scores has now passed so I am afraid you would be unable to re-enter the competition.
I am extremely sorry but we feel we have no other option. We have gone to great lengths over the previous weeks to unravel how it was someone could record 62 Stableford points. I have emailed your playing partner, spoken to both you and Sale Golf Club on a number of occasions and it is only now that the mistake has come to light. I appreciate that it was an entirely honest mistake but this is a charity competition and we must therefore be seen to operate with complete transparency, in the best interest of the sport and in the memory of Seve’s ongoing legacy.
Thank you very much for your support.
Regards,
The Seve Day Team.”
Yesterday I received an email from the competition organiser, I had queried the card as it said 62 points, and sent Seve Day an email:
“It is quite embarrassing the competitions organiser has just rung to clarify that the card that was submitted was in fact for 2 players, the format of the competition was
”stableford choose partners.”
They had worked out my score as being 44 points and my playing partner scoring 18 points, thus resulting in a total combined stableford score of 62 points.
Do you wish me to submit a corrected score card?
Shanu”
Having received the disqualification email I sent a further email to them:
“Hi Rupert
Sorry sent from my phone and accidentally pressed send before could finish it.
Thankyou for your email – in the email (below) you have put that I was disqualified due to“playing the event in the wrong format” but there is a message on the site which says that you opened up the competition to scores “submitted from any round”- so I don’t understand how this can be used in order to disqualify me.
I would like you to reconsider in the light of the following:
1) was an honest mistake
2) my club has confirmed of the 62 points I scored 44
3) you have a number of players who are playing off 44 so I would be happy to play off a score of 44 as well
I feel that this solution would maintain the integrity of the competition
Shanu
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device”
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Sounds like a load of Titleists to me.

Even if the story of 2 players is true (ducks while a squadron of pigs flies past), the card is invalid because it was completed incorrectly. The Seve Day organisers said previously they had checked the score with the playing partners. Either they did so incorrectly or this was a porky. I wonder which?
 
Rory130911 said:
It would seem that they have acted on some of this information:

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[/TR]
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[TD]S Varma[/TD]
[TD]DQ[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]T Caplehorn[/TD]
[TD]55[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]B Prewett[/TD]
[TD]50[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]P Calver[/TD]
[TD]49[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


Just these other 3 to deal with I would think?
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These I can handle - as mentioned - a buddy had 52 points (may even have been 54 points) in a roll-up a few weeks back. Off 24 and round in 6 over? He's pretty new to the game but was an excellent cricketer - his handicap will tumble - but he didn't half get a lot of ribbing from the rest of us. Also we played our roll-up off Yellow tees and these are a lot easier than the competition tees.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
These I can handle - as mentioned - a buddy had 52 points (may even have been 54 points) in a roll-up a few weeks back. Off 24 and round in 6 over? He's pretty new to the game but was an excellent cricketer - his handicap will tumble - but he didn't half get a lot of ribbing from the rest of us. Also we played our roll-up off Yellow tees and these are a lot easier than the competition tees.
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Off 24 I could possibly imagine SLH, but earlier in the thread it was mentioned the 55 was from a teenager playing off low teens, possibly single fig... So that would have to be one hell​ of a round he put together.
 
Thank god she's been DQ'd, people like that don't deserve to compete in Seve's name. The only problem now is how many others do you question? Before you know it the entire top 10 are DQ'd for one reason or another!!
 
What the hell are they playing off handicaps of 100.

62 Points, is banditry of thehighest order. I mean 41 points in last place something seriously wrong there. If I had 41 points i'd at least be expecting a podium finish not the sodding wooden spoon.
 
There is a tweet from T Caplehorns dad saying he practices 6-7 times a day during the school holidays and has shot a 63 gross. As I mentioned before his dad is a PGA coach.
 
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