He has now played well over 950 golf courses worldwide in 35 countries, right across the spectrum from the humblest of nine-holers in the Scottish Highlands to the very grandest of international golf resorts, but put him on a links course anywhere and he will be blissfully content. He is a senior panelist for Golf Monthly's Top 100 UK & Ireland Course Rankings and has played all of the Top 100 plus 91 of the Next 100, making him well-qualified when it comes to assessing and comparing our premier golf courses. He also edits The Golf Club Secretary Newsletter, a highly regarded trade publication for golf club secretaries and managers, and has authored or co-authored three books and written for a number of national papers including The Telegraph and The Independent. He is now a freelance journalist writing mainly for Golf Monthly across the whole spectrum from courses and Rules to equipment and instruction. Jeremy Ellwood has worked in the golf industry since 1993 and for Golf Monthly since 2002 when he started out as equipment editor. There is nothing worse than the round of a lifetime being scuppered by an elementary scorecard mistake! Just ask Roberto de Vicenzo who signed for a par where he'd made birdie on the 71st hole in the 1968 Masters, costing him a spot in the play-off. It is always worth an extra dose of concentration to make sure everything is spot-on before signing and returning your card, especially in the excitement of a good round. So, there you have some important golf scorecard rules to be aware of. Finally if the scorecards are prepared for you, do make sure you swap before you mark and sign, or you'll end up signing for the wrong scores a la Mark Roe in the 2003 Open at Royal St George's. And even if computerised scoring is in operation, it is what is recorded on the physical scorecard that is all-important, rather than what might be input in error into a computer.ġ6. You might have a long trek to the area where it is to be returned if, for example, you have started on a tee some way from the clubhouse.ġ5. Returning the card “as soon as possible” doesn’t mean immediately, nor does it mean hours later. If one or both of the required signatures are missing, you will be disqualified under Rule 3.3b.ġ4. Once it has been returned, no alterations can then be made to the scorecard.ġ3. Sometimes, this will be to a recorders’ area, but often simply to a box in the clubhouse or changing room.ġ2. The scorecard must be signed by you and your marker (or markers if another person has had to take over) and returned as soon as possible on completion of the round.ġ1. You and your marker(s) must sign your scorecard (Getty Images)ġ0.
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