Scorecard (Rule 6-6)
Committee’s Responsibility:
- To provide the competitor with a scorecard containing the date and competitor’s name(s).
- To calculate the points scored in a Stableford competition.
- To total the gross scores for each hole and the application of the handicap to calculate the nett score.
Competitor’s Responsibility:
- To ensure that their FULL handicap is recorded on his/her score card, notwithstanding the number of holes in the competition or the format (e.g. 9/10ths handicap).
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- If there is no handicap on the card when returned, the player is disqualified.
- If the recorded handicap is higher than that to which they are entitled, the player is disqualified.
- If they enter a handicap that is lower than that to which they are entitled, that handicap is used to calculate their score.
- To hand their card to their marker at the beginning of the round.
- To check the score with the marker after each hole.
- To ensure that the gross scores for each hole are accurately recorded.
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- If a score recorded is lower than the actual score on any hole, the player is disqualified.
- If a score recorded is higher than the actual score, that score shall stand.
- To ensure that the card has been signed by the player and their marker after the round.
Other:
- The card is considered “returned” when it has been posted in the competition box.
- A card may be marked by more than one person provided that each signs for the part of the round for which they are responsible.
- A competitor may not mark his/her own card.
- Only the marker and one player in a side are required to sign the card.
- A different card from the one issued may be returned (e.g. when original card has been saturated by rain).
- The non-return of cards in Singles competitions, whether or not complete, affect the correct calculation of the CSS for that competition and may result in a disciplinary sanction, such as ineligibility to play in the next Club competition.
- A card not returned or returned incomplete is not automatically entitled to 0.1 back.
Computer:
For ease of competition administration, the Committee requires competitors in all Singles competitions, both qualifying and non-qualifying, to enter their scores into a computer, if the computer has been set up for score entry. The Committee has introduced a Club Regulation, where failure to comply may incur a disciplinary sanction, such as ineligibility to play in the next club competition.
Checking cards:
The task of checking up to 150 cards after a competition is an onerous one that usually falls to one of the Committee on a rota basis. It helps enormously when the competitor……
- Writes clearly in BIRO rather than pencil.
- Calculates the points scored in a Stableford competition or the gross and nett scores in a strokes competition.
- Enters their “claimed” total score in the box provided on the scorecard (below the player/marker signatures).
