From: JohnH on
I did not enter the competition today as I was due to play of yellow
tees (Rabbits comp) but both my partners were playing off the white
tees in a separate competition.

However I did keep a card and scored 39 points (with 3 blobs !!) and
put my crad in for handicap re-assessment. Does the hcp secretary have
to accept my card or can he just discard it because I had not entered
the competition.

It seems that if am putting the card in then my hcp should be cut in
accordance with the SSS of the day.

TIA

John
From: Mark Myers on
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:56:10 -0700 (PDT), JohnH said...
> I did not enter the competition today as I was due to play of yellow
> tees (Rabbits comp) but both my partners were playing off the white
> tees in a separate competition.
>
> However I did keep a card and scored 39 points (with 3 blobs !!) and
> put my crad in for handicap re-assessment. Does the hcp secretary have
> to accept my card or can he just discard it because I had not entered
> the competition.
>
> It seems that if am putting the card in then my hcp should be cut in
> accordance with the SSS of the day.

I presume the yellow tees are a measured course with its own SSS? Then
any signed card offered is valid for handicap consideration, but outside
of a competition I think it can only be considered for a general play
reduction, which must be of at least 1.0 shots. 39 pts might not be
enough, depending on the SSS.

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Mark Myers
usenet at mcm2007 dot plus dot com
From: JohnH on
Cheers Mark,
I played off white tees where SSS will be 71 (36). So that would be
0.9 shots. Pity I didn''t enter the competition really.

John

From: AS on
JohnH wrote:
*snip*

> Does the hcp secretary have
> to accept my card

No

or can he just discard it because I had not entered
> the competition.

Yes

However, you could have declared a 'supplementary round' before you set
off.

AS
From: JohnH on
The hcp secretary did reject the card but only because I had entered
plenty of competitions already. He said the only option he had would
be to pull me on general play which would be a minimum of one stroke.
He did not see the need and neither did I. Back to normal yesterday
with 29 points.