empress open

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 

Paul, I've also heard something on those lines, I think technically amateur's are unable to be awarded prize money. Not sure if this is only related to golf or other sports.  Also I'm sure I've seen an amateur event where the prize pot was actually vouchers.

I'll have a look around and let you know.

Also, I doubt it's against the law and you could do what you like but would guess the restrictions are around the rules of golf and restrictions from the R&A or EGU and affiliations with clubs. Where private society events fit in would seem an interesting quesiton.

Prizes in amateur events are limited to a value of £500.

John

I would think that's only to comps that want R&A or EGU recognition.

Information on golf amateur status and prize money

Calm down dear, your handicap is heading in the wrong direction for you to pick up any.

I think He will be manualy adjusting it. He does alot of that.

Reference the rules on prize money/prizes for Amateur competitions, the R&A have a comprehensive booklet on this:

http://www.randa.org/index.cfm?action=rules.amateur.home&cfid=7974665&cftoken=17588906

John Pettitt was correct with the £500 value rule, however if you took more in prize money such as a car for a hole in one, you would lose amateur status.  You could apply to be re-instated but there is normally a 2 year period after applying. 

I'm sure that when I played in a charity competition the prize for a hole in one was free entry into a raffle to win a car.  As the raffle only consisted of one ticket (nominal 1p value) it meant you would keep the car and retain amatuer status.  Not that it worried me, I got closer to the car than the hole....

Don't you just love creative marketing or is that creative accounting or creative rule bending

Sounds like Gordon Brown to me.

Sounds good.

Where and when - never taken part in one of these and might be able to rope a few other members on board as well!

The weekend is a big plus for me - cant get time off in the week at all.