Submitting scores on a Captain's Away Day

[Deleted member 35577]

Handicaps are important to some people. Mate of mine is off +3 and missed our club champs last year because his next score to drop off was a 6 under and he wanted to make sure that he got into the English Amateur. He wouldn't have been very impressed if he went on a fun day out and was forced to submit a card.

 

[Bratty]

Handicaps are important to some people. Mate of mine is off +3 and missed our club champs last year because his next score to drop off was a 6 under and he wanted to make sure that he got into the English Amateur. He wouldn't have been very impressed if he went on a fun day out and was forced to submit a card.

Shocking reverse banditry!
I'm proud of him!

 

[Deleted member 35577]

Should our Annual 'Past Captain's Cup' be a qualifier??

Each year it falls to the current Club Captain to organize & manage this event which is a Stableford off full h/cap & has always in the past been played as a none qualifier. Some of the Past Captains are now at other Clubs & some (one) plays just casual golf outside of Club membership so no...

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Seems this topic is a hot potato for the OP

 

[Swango1980]

Handicaps are important to some people. Mate of mine is off +3 and missed our club champs last year because his next score to drop off was a 6 under and he wanted to make sure that he got into the English Amateur. He wouldn't have been very impressed if he went on a fun day out and was forced to submit a card.

He probably needs to come to terms with the fact that next time he submits a score, competition or not, he is losing that 6 under. So there is a real risk of him getting a handicap increase. And if he misses qualification, then so be it.

On the flip side, if he was having a great fun day, and shot 7 under, he wouldn't be too impressed if he wasn't allowed to submit his score

 

[Voyager EMH]

Handicap Sec says he wants all cards returned and Captain wants it to be a fun day.

Captain should state, "Placing on closely mown areas and everyone gets one tee-shot Mulligan."
And maybe a few other things just to be sure.

 

[Leftitshort]

Be made to submit a card on an away day, sounds like fun! If some fellas want to they can on the EGU app. If some don’t it’s up to them

 

[Leftitshort]

Handicap Sec says he wants all cards returned and Captain wants it to be a fun day.

Captain should state, "Placing on closely mown areas and everyone gets one tee-shot Mulligan."
And maybe a few other things just to be sure.

Yep just change the format from singles stableford. Some kind of team event should do

 

[Deleted member 35577]

He probably needs to come to terms with the fact that next time he submits a score, competition or not, he is losing that 6 under. So there is a real risk of him getting a handicap increase. And if he misses qualification, then so be it.

On the flip side, if he was having a great fun day, and shot 7 under, he wouldn't be too impressed if he wasn't allowed to submit his score

This was last year, the 6 under has since dropped off but he is at the level where the English Am would be the pinnacle of his season. Having worked hard to get into it I don't think he would be too impressed having to submit cards in a mickey mouse day out.

 

[wjemather]

Handicap Sec says he wants all cards returned and Captain wants it to be a fun day.

Captain should state, "Placing on closely mown areas and everyone gets one tee-shot Mulligan."
And maybe a few other things just to be sure.

Just one simple measure would do it.

It's hard to ignore the hypocrisy of anyone who insists on playing a competition by the rules of golf but wants to ignore the rules of handicapping.

 

[Leftitshort]

This was last year, the 6 under has since dropped off but he is at the level where the English Am would be the pinnacle of his season. Having worked hard to get into it I don't think he would be too impressed having to submit cards in a mickey mouse day out.

It’s supposed to be a chuckle, doesn’t sound like much of a laugh if some of the fellas from here are coming

 

[Leftitshort]

Just one simple measure would do it.

It's hard to ignore the hypocrisy of anyone who insists on playing a competition by the rules of golf but wants to ignore the rules of handicapping.

The rules of golf and the rules governing handicaps are different and distinct. There’s no hypocrisy

 

[louise_a]

I would, in fact I did last year on one of our away days.

 

[Deleted member 29109]

I do feel slightly sorry for those people who can’t have fun out on the course because they are submitting a score or attach far too much importance to their handicap.

 

[Deleted member 35577]

This sounds like a great opportunity to have a laugh with the boys, put a crap card in and get a bandit handicap for the first big competition of the year

 

[Swango1980]

I actually am finding it almost laughable that so many people need to make excuses about not handing in their score. Just a "fun" day out. If these people get so stressed about handing in a card, I doubt they'd generally have fun at all. Too many other stressful things to do in the day, like tying your shoe laces

Quite some time ago, we had a Captain's away weekend. There were 24 of us I think. Captain said that he wanted us all to hand our scores in from both days. Not only was there no complaints, but loads thought it was a great idea. And it was a great weekend. Loads of fun, despite a few sore heads in the morning

 

[sunshine]

The rules of golf and the rules governing handicaps are different and distinct. There’s no hypocrisy

There are a few people on here who seem to think that the rules of handicap are far more important than the rules of golf

 

[Bratty]

I think there's too many people on here who cannot understand that some might have different views and need to just accept it rather than try to change their minds or question their views.

 

[Swango1980]

I think there's too many people on here who cannot understand that some might have different views and need to just accept it rather than try to change their minds or question their views.

If people couldn't debate their views, why have a forum? Just create a poll and turn comments off.

 

[Leftitshort]

I actually am finding it almost laughable that so many people need to make excuses about not handing in their score. Just a "fun" day out. If these people get so stressed about handing in a card, I doubt they'd generally have fun at all. Too many other stressful things to do in the day, like tying your shoe laces

Quite some time ago, we had a Captain's away weekend. There were 24 of us I think. Captain said that he wanted us all to hand our scores in from both days. Not only was there no complaints, but loads thought it was a great idea. And it was a great weekend. Loads of fun, despite a few sore heads in the morning

Why did the captain want you to hand the cards in?

 

[Singlefiguregokfer]

If people couldn't debate their views, why have a forum? Just create a poll and turn comments off.

As the vote is currently 25:9 I think the forum has spoken on said poll.
It appears others feel the need to tell that majority they are wrong.