[pokerbonuscod]

That's terrible, but it is part of the rules. Michelle Wee forgot to sign her scorecard and was DQed.

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=3496673

It's part of the game.

Yes, but it still sucks. Golf should be about what happens on the course, not on the card. It is for this reason I always keep a card myself (unofficial) when I play in events. I want to be able to check my offcial card hole by hole before I sign it and turn it in.

[Enliseell]

Saw this today. Very sad story for this young girl. An unfortunate way for her to learn such a hard lesson.


Tapaway!

[spacecrafty]

While I agree that she shouldn't have been DQ'd, the rules are the rules. She only lost a state title. Roberto DeVicenzo lost The Masters title for the same thing. (Actually, he lost out on a playoff)

[bingookenoo]

What a bummer. It seems like a harsh sentence for a simple mistake, but that is the way of it. One bogey on 18, how did she miss that?

[Xiciljed]

Man, she should've checked the card more carefully. Then she would've won the championship. Oh well. Excitement probably got the best of her.

[Hinigyday]

Caroline is actually one of my really good friends. I was very sad to hear what happened to her, but she will move on to bigger and better things for sure! One thing that isn't mention in this article (which I know from talking to her) is that she looked over the card not once, but twice, this lead to her being even more surprised when she found out about the ruling.

[gooseCile]

Professional golfers curse and pound the ground with their clubs on TV, but that's OK. It's high school golfers who don't double check their partners math who are threatening the integrity of the game.

The rule is to prevent cheating, a worthy cause, but the implementation is vindictively stupid. I wonder who she pissed off.

[spacecrafty]

Has there been a comment from the girl who wrote the wrong score down?

[Hinigyday]

Has there been a comment from the girl who wrote the wrong score down?

Not that I know of.

If anyone is interested, here is the local newspaper article, it gives a better telling of the events.
http://www.registerguard.com/web/new...round.html.csp

[anolbom]

The rule is to prevent cheating, a worthy cause, but the implementation is vindictively stupid. I wonder who she pissed off.

WHAT???

It was being run like a USGA event. If the rules official doesn't implement the rule, he has no job. What kind of precedent does it set when you don't follow the rules of the game? Hey, we will overlook it this time but never again?

If you don't like the rule, make sure you don't break it.

I feel bad for the girl, I really do. I played competitive golf in high school and ALWAYS had my own score on the bottom of my opponents scorecard. More than once I had to walk through a hole with my group to get the scores accurate for everyone. It is part of the game and actually is pretty easy to follow.

We had a local kid who was on his way to win the state tournament by like 11 strokes. He put his approach shot within 6 inches of the hole and had a tap in birdie to finish it all off. He walked up with his putter and tapped it in. One issue, he didn't take the head cover off his putter! He absolutely destroyed everyone for 35 holes and 2 strokes but blew it on the final stroke to win it all. Even if his "cheating" wasn't intentional, it was still against the rules and cost him.

Live and learn.