Depends upon the way the club/course deals with it. And most of all, it depends upon whether or not the golfer is a thief, an unprincipled lout who should be banned from the game.
On the other hand, whether the computer is available at your home course or not, it's pretty easy to write down wrong numbers on scorecards. At our course, the computer's available but in 90% of the cases golf shop staff enters scores from cards that are picked up from the bar/restaurant. There's no way to verify what's on the card(s). Golf's a game of honor. If a guy's a cheater he doesn't deserve the time of day from his fellows. I know damn well I've refused to play with, or make bets with known baggers. I'll play golf with them but I won't bet with them. Nor will I allow baggers in any of the tournaments or matches for which I'm responsible. When a guy tells me, after having won money in a tournament "I play better under pressure", I tell him "don't bother signing up for another event with me, unless you can play at scratch. Near as I can tell, the only way to control baggers is by self-policing, whether it be a club or individuals. This of course doesn't apply to "vanity handicappers". Bring them boys on. TFlan > Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 18:13:29 -0700 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Handicap > To: [email protected] > > > I've belonged to 3 clubs. In each one, members entered their own scores, and > there was never any effort to police the system. No education was given to > the golfers about score entry either. It was all totally self-service. If > someone wanted to sandbag, they could. The clubs didn't do any handicapped > tourneys, so it never really came up in a setting where the club could do > something about it. > > I think this is fairly common. That's why I think the handicap system is > untrustworthy. > > -Don > > > > --- On Wed, 8/5/09, Ed Reeder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > -- > Shoptalk ** Sponsored by the new Aldila Voodoo. > Learn more at http://aldilavoodoo.com/ _________________________________________________________________ Express your personality in color! Preview and select themes for Hotmail®. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/LearnMore/personalize.aspx?ocid=PID23391::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HYGN_express:082009
