What should be done to sandbaggers in golf tournaments/scrambles ? Banned ? Publicly Ridiculed ?
we have all seen it happen you/re playing in a tournament and your/re playing to your handicap and some jackass comes in with a score that wins the flight by 5-6 shots and claims he shot the round of their life. Or you and your friends are playing in a scramble and all 4 of you are decent golfers but some team of beer bellied non athletic looking bar flies turn in a scorecard that is 4 shots better than what you and your buddies could have mustered on your best days.
Its not really so much of an issue if the scramble is for fun and the prizes are just a bunch of donated oddity’s and the money is going to a good cause. But when people put up good money and its a flighted golf tournament or a scramble with really great prizes that have some value. This becomes an issue. There shouldn’t be sandbagging involved in either. But its a bit harder to swallow when good money and prizes are involved.
You have to ask what’s the solution? Cut off a hand in the parking lot ? Ban the players for life?