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Cheating In Carity Event

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Bit of a mad story really, you could forgive them just playing away if the guy turned up at the last minute but then announce the revised HC after 18 has been completed before signing it.

    Did this team win though? I find it hard to establish if they just finished ahead of the OP or actually won outright.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 778 ✭✭✭Kingswood Rover


    Wrong all day long, new guy joins the team, "fair play pal would of been a bit of a chore playing in this with only 3 as one of the lads cried off, now whats your name and handicap and we will get going"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭Nozebleed


    razorblunt wrote: »
    Bit of a mad story really, you could forgive them just playing away if the guy turned up at the last minute but then announce the revised HC after 18 has been completed before signing it.

    Did this team win though? I find it hard to establish if they just finished ahead of the OP or actually won outright.[/quote

    Yep they won the 1st prize which was valued at €800 roughly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Nozebleed wrote: »
    razorblunt wrote: »
    Bit of a mad story really, you could forgive them just playing away if the guy turned up at the last minute but then announce the revised HC after 18 has been completed before signing it.

    Did this team win though? I find it hard to establish if they just finished ahead of the OP or actually won outright.[/quote

    Yep they won the 1st prize which was valued at €800 roughly.

    Cheers, kick up the hole needed definitely.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 761 ✭✭✭Dayor Knight


    Nozebleed wrote: »
    Just for the record,they originally had a 26 handicapper but he couldn,t make it. So he was replaced with a 20 handicapper. He played off 26. After the results came in my team lost. So we queried the result. The lad who played off 26 on the day the had his handicap reduced to 20 and the team score re,calculated..we still finished behind them.
    Actually, having seen what the prize was, and thinking about it, it's much worse than bad form... Sounds like downright cheating. No way should have got prize, but that's the problem with charity events.... Up to the organisers how they play the rules...

    I.m.o. Bad form that they put in false score, and should have been disqualified for that. But if it's a team event for charity, the organisers can decide the rules.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭mike12


    Hi,
    Did you even have to have a GUI handicap to play?? A lot of Charity events they will take anyone some guys don't even have a society handicap. Don't really know what they were thinking but it just seems lazy/silly did the guy marking the card even know either the guy who was supposed to play or the guy who did.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭Dtoffee


    Disqualification every time as far as I'm concerned.

    Anytime I have played a team event, it was name, club and handicap at registration and on the card before you start. These guys knew what they were doing when they signed off on a 20 handicapper (if he was that?) playing off 26 under a different name. Sounds like a complete con job and the organisers have played along, wonder was there any relationship between the organisers and the team?.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,000 ✭✭✭Russman


    Dtoffee wrote: »
    Disqualification every time as far as I'm concerned.

    Anytime I have played a team event, it was name, club and handicap at registration and on the card before you start. These guys knew what they were doing when they signed off on a 20 handicapper (if he was that?) playing off 26 under a different name. Sounds like a complete con job and the organisers have played along, wonder was there any relationship between the organisers and the team?.

    Absolutely. I just can't imagine any "genuine" circumstance whereby someone would actually knowingly play under a false name and handicap. Fair enough if the lad stepped in a short notice, but he's got to use his own name and handicap FFS !!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭Sean_pop


    Nozebleed wrote: »
    Hey lads,i need your opinion on this.

    Played a team event today,charity event for a good cause. And my team were beaten today by lads who knowingly falsely declared a player and his handicap on their score card. Basically one of the original players couldn,t make it so they drafted in a guy who played off the original guys handicap. Now the handicap and name on the card were not changed prior to the start of the round. And when the result was called out i knew the players all by name so i made it known to a committee member who was present and had also played in the event. That one of the guys who played for the winning team was not called out as part of the team. So the committee member made a few calls and got confirmation that a player who plaed had not been declared and that the handicap was not correct on the card..he decided the best thing to do was to change the information on the card of the winning group after the event.(This didnt change the overall result of the comp). Now i dont know about you guys but i am disgusted. And im not sure what to do from here. He basically acknowledged the fact that cheating had taken place and agreed to take part in that deception. Opinion please.

    Should be disqualified as handicap was wrong on the card in my opinion.

    A similar thing happened to my dad. He played in society outing and would have won the competition if he put his handicap on the card. He did not and therefore was disqualified.


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