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No home club

  • 10-05-2011 3:19pm
    #1
    Satanta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    A guy I regularly played Golf with last year isnt renewing membership to the club this year. He asked me the following (which I dont know)

    How does this affect his GUI handicap? Someone told me that you need to have a home club otherwise your handicap is suspended after a few months

    Does he have to have a home club in order to be able to play in open comps?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    PhilipMarlowe
    Subscribers Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭PhilipMarlowe


    If you're not a member of an affiliated club you haven't got a valid GUI handicap.
    This is effective immediately - there is no "few months" before it gets suspended.
    If you join another club (or re-join original club) within 6 months of having been a member then you can transfer your 'old' handicap, else you have to go down the route of applying for a new handicap.


  • #3
    VikingG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 530 ✭✭✭VikingG


    and with regard to playing in open comps..... well you could "play" but you would not be able to hand in a card....


  • #4
    Dr_Colossus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,191 ✭✭✭Dr_Colossus


    VikingG wrote: »
    and with regard to playing in open comps..... well you could "play" but you would not be able to hand in a card....

    But could the OP who I'm presuming is a club member be able to play and hand in his card in the open competition if the person marking his card isn't a GUI member?
    For instance say if you put you're name down randomly on the time sheet and it transpired that the person you were playing with wasn't a member of any club but was just using the open day as a cheaper means of playing golf, would you be disqualified without a GUI member marking your card?


  • #5
    cackhanded
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭cackhanded


    Dr_Colossus wrote: »
    But could the OP who I'm presuming is a club member be able to play and hand in his card in the open competition if the person marking his card isn't a GUI member?
    For instance say if you put you're name down randomly on the time sheet and it transpired that the person you were playing with wasn't a member of any club but was just using the open day as a cheaper means of playing golf, would you be disqualified without a GUI member marking your card?

    Most open days require you to produce a GUI card in order to play. As far as the signature on the card, it's generally defined as someone "acceptable" to the club (ie a member of a GUI affiliated club) so it's up to the club really. I've never heard of them going through every card examining exactly who has signed each card though.


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