this came to my attention during a tournament that i won the advanced division in tulsa in..during the first 18 of a 36 hole tournament i shot a -8 but didnt check my own scores and was told i shot a -7..sounded about right to me so i was like cool and went to lunch..after lunch i learned of the mistake..live and learn my -8 is now a -6 as it should be by the rules.

this is where i got to thinking what if a person lets say a rec or intermediate player knew that after the 1st round himself and 1 other had distanced thereselves from the rest of the field during the last round one off these 2 has a much better round and knows they will win by 4-5 strokes over the field..what would stop this person from intentionaly misadding there score on purpose to deflate there round rating without costing them anything,in advanced its kinda irrelavent since theres not top to the rating limit.

i guess what im saying is shouldnt the actual shot round be reported for rating purpose..then the strokes removed in the final results

I've had this idea many times. Fearful that someone would change my score after I check it and it was correct.

Luckily, I've never heard of it happening, but I'm sure it has.

what would stop this person from intentionaly misadding there score on purpose to deflate there round rating without costing them anything,in advanced its kinda irrelavent since theres not top to the rating limit.



The same thing that prevents them from goofing around on the last hole and taking a few more extra stokes than necessary.

I've only once seen anyone do anything like that. At Mad-Bert they have a local rule that if you shoot under a certain score in the morning you get moved up to the next division on the lunch hour. This is unsanctioned, of course. So once I saw a player intentionally miss a five foot putt on the last hole of the morning round to stay in the Int division. It was best shot doubles. His partner stepped up and made the putt! :D