backwoodsman
Tour Winner
Yesterday was just an ordinary Saturday - with a Pro-shop comp (stableford) in the absence of anthing more formal as regards club comps. It will be a qualifier. It's also the final weekend for playing matches in the current round of knockouts.
In the post round banter l heard " ... he beat me good & proper, 5&3. I tried to hang in there but he played really well. He scored 38 in the pro-shop. Obviously l didn’t ..."
Now, l know both guys reasonably ok, so asked them if they knew they couldn't play a match and be in a strokeplay comp at the same time. They genuinely didn’t. They asked what rule; l told them. They said they played properly, putted out everything etc; l said that doesn't really come into it, the formats have different penalties & procedures etc. One said nothing arose where a rule was broken that needed a penalty adding; l just said that may be so. They asked what the consequence was; l said strictly speaking, dq in the comp & match null & void.
The guy with who won with the good score was concerned (in the right way). That he might win the comp or at least deprive someone of prize money. That he'd get Order of Merit points to which he wasn't entitled, and a h/c cut & so on. So what do we do he asked. Nothing, just leave it, suggested the other. I just said, "I suppose you could try asking to withdraw from the comp - saying you didn’t realise you couldn't enter? But I'm saying nothing to anyone else. It's up to you."
I now feel like a git for mentioning it at all. Put a downer on their morning, & probably deprived him of a cut.
But surely it was the right thing to do? Wasn't it? What would you have done?
In the post round banter l heard " ... he beat me good & proper, 5&3. I tried to hang in there but he played really well. He scored 38 in the pro-shop. Obviously l didn’t ..."
Now, l know both guys reasonably ok, so asked them if they knew they couldn't play a match and be in a strokeplay comp at the same time. They genuinely didn’t. They asked what rule; l told them. They said they played properly, putted out everything etc; l said that doesn't really come into it, the formats have different penalties & procedures etc. One said nothing arose where a rule was broken that needed a penalty adding; l just said that may be so. They asked what the consequence was; l said strictly speaking, dq in the comp & match null & void.
The guy with who won with the good score was concerned (in the right way). That he might win the comp or at least deprive someone of prize money. That he'd get Order of Merit points to which he wasn't entitled, and a h/c cut & so on. So what do we do he asked. Nothing, just leave it, suggested the other. I just said, "I suppose you could try asking to withdraw from the comp - saying you didn’t realise you couldn't enter? But I'm saying nothing to anyone else. It's up to you."
I now feel like a git for mentioning it at all. Put a downer on their morning, & probably deprived him of a cut.
But surely it was the right thing to do? Wasn't it? What would you have done?
