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Paul Cook Handicap : 21 Location : Posts :	Posted : Tue 29th Apr 2008 23:07 The Empress Open Entry £ 35-00 Prizes 1st £80-00 2nd £45-00 3rd £15-00 Individual Comp Trophies winners yearly cup runner up trophie bottoms up Four Ball Comp Golf Goodies and trophie soup and sarnies before you go out 12-00 start last chance for entries will confirm numbers by tuesday 6th may




Jon T Handicap : 10.9 Location : Posts :	Reply : Wed 30th Apr 2008 10:59 I do hope the "prize money" is in the form of professional shiop vouchers, rather than cash?


Darren Ramowski Handicap : 26.9 Location : Posts :	Reply : Wed 30th Apr 2008 13:03 I think it's below the limits if you are referring to the 'amateur' status price allowance


Jon T Handicap : 10.9 Location : Posts :	Reply : Wed 30th Apr 2008 13:22 I wasn't aware there was an allowance. The rules, as I understood them, was that an amateur player cannot receive renumeration for playing in or winning a tournament. They can however win vouchers to spend in a pro-shop, or a non-cash prize, not exceeding a certain value (in the USA it's 7500usd, but I can't find figures for Europe). The following is from the Golf Wikipaedia site, under "Rules & other regulations": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf There are strict regulations regarding the amateur status of golfers.^[23] Essentially, everybody who has ever received payment or compensation for giving instruction or played golf for money is not considered an amateur and may not participate in competitions limited solely to amateurs. However amateur golfers may receive expenses which comply with strict guidelines and they may accept non-cash prizes within the limits established by the Rules of Amateur Status. The Wiki could be out of date, adn the R&A site is a bit sparse on factual info regarding this subject. I just thought I'd better highlight it before anyone gets into hot water for running the comp, or playing in it and winning a prize.


Paul Cook Handicap : 21 Location : Posts :	Reply : Wed 30th Apr 2008 19:31 as long as its not over £500-00 per round its ok the first post we had was on this topic


Darren Ramowski Handicap : 26.9 Location : Posts :	Reply : Wed 30th Apr 2008 20:42 Sorry to bring this up again Jonathan maybe right if it's cash. See the 1st and 2nd questions. http://www.randa.org/index.cfm?action=rules.amateur.faq&cfid=11203 931&cftoken=11093684


Jon T Handicap : 10.9 Location : Posts :	Reply : Thu 1st May 2008 10:56 Some of my grey matter still works then at least lol. If the organisers just bought American Golf vouchers or something similar, then it'd all be gravy.


Tim Hawkins Handicap : 21.5 Location : Posts :	Reply : Thu 1st May 2008 11:27 You lot do make things complicated don't you. The winner gets entered into a prize draw - effectively winning a book of 10 raffle tickets each with a face value of 0.01p cash. The draw is then made and the lucky winner gets the cash - but as the competition winner is the only entrant then it's a forgone conclusion. Apparently it needs to be more then one ticket to comply with the gambling rules. The same then goes for the second, third etc placed players.


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