DANISH TEAM FORFEIT LGU PRIZE VOUCHERS BECAUSE THEY DID NOT TURN UP TO COLLECT BRITISH TEAM TROPHY
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
One of the curses of modern amateur golf is that fewer and fewer competitors are staying on for the prizegiving at the end of a competition - NOT EVEN THE PRIZEWINNERS!
Susan Simpson, pictured, the Ladies Golf Union's Head of Golf Operations, has been pursuing a policy at LGU events of prize-winning players,who do not make an apology in advance for not turning up to collect a prize, forfeiting their prize vouchers.
The value of the prizes is donated to an LGU charity.
At Machynys Golf Club, South Wales - venue for last week's British women's open amateur championship - things came to a head when the Danish trio who won the international team event: Nanna Madsen, Caroline Nistrup and Emily Pedersen - failed to give Tournament Director Simpson advance notice that they would not be at the prizegiving because they were leaving early to catch a plane back to Denmark.
"They did not tender their apologies in advance and so they forfeited prize vouchers with a combined value of over £200. Denmark's name will be enscribed on the trophy but the players will not get the vouchers to which they were entitled," said Susan.
"We had notices all over the Machynys club from early in the week, warning players that if they were not going to be present at Saturday's prizegiving and they had prizes to collect, they would forfeit them unless they made an apology for absence in advance.
"The Danish team made no such apology and suffered the consequences."
+Whether they still do is not known but once upon a time organisers of some tournaments in Belgium would give the prize of a person who did not come forward when his or her name was called to the next person in the prizelist, i.e. if the third-place prizewinner was absent, then that prize would go to the person who finished fourth and so on down the line.
+The Paul Lawrie Scottish Ladies Open Tour, which was set up this year, does not have prizegivings except when the Tour Championship is played at the end of its season in October.Players collect their vouchers or prize money at the next competition or, in the case of the lady pros, have the money paid into their bank account by Tournament Director Nicola Melville.
"It saves players hanging on long after they have finished their rounds and it enables us, the organisers, to make a sharp exit once the last players have handed in their scorecards."
+The PGA of Scotland have long enforced a "top five must stay for prizegiving" policy at their pro-ams. The pros know that if they don't turn up they will be fined.
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
One of the curses of modern amateur golf is that fewer and fewer competitors are staying on for the prizegiving at the end of a competition - NOT EVEN THE PRIZEWINNERS!
Susan Simpson, pictured, the Ladies Golf Union's Head of Golf Operations, has been pursuing a policy at LGU events of prize-winning players,who do not make an apology in advance for not turning up to collect a prize, forfeiting their prize vouchers.
The value of the prizes is donated to an LGU charity.
At Machynys Golf Club, South Wales - venue for last week's British women's open amateur championship - things came to a head when the Danish trio who won the international team event: Nanna Madsen, Caroline Nistrup and Emily Pedersen - failed to give Tournament Director Simpson advance notice that they would not be at the prizegiving because they were leaving early to catch a plane back to Denmark.
"They did not tender their apologies in advance and so they forfeited prize vouchers with a combined value of over £200. Denmark's name will be enscribed on the trophy but the players will not get the vouchers to which they were entitled," said Susan.
"We had notices all over the Machynys club from early in the week, warning players that if they were not going to be present at Saturday's prizegiving and they had prizes to collect, they would forfeit them unless they made an apology for absence in advance.
"The Danish team made no such apology and suffered the consequences."
+Whether they still do is not known but once upon a time organisers of some tournaments in Belgium would give the prize of a person who did not come forward when his or her name was called to the next person in the prizelist, i.e. if the third-place prizewinner was absent, then that prize would go to the person who finished fourth and so on down the line.
+The Paul Lawrie Scottish Ladies Open Tour, which was set up this year, does not have prizegivings except when the Tour Championship is played at the end of its season in October.Players collect their vouchers or prize money at the next competition or, in the case of the lady pros, have the money paid into their bank account by Tournament Director Nicola Melville.
"It saves players hanging on long after they have finished their rounds and it enables us, the organisers, to make a sharp exit once the last players have handed in their scorecards."
+The PGA of Scotland have long enforced a "top five must stay for prizegiving" policy at their pro-ams. The pros know that if they don't turn up they will be fined.
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