Linda,
Last
week in a senior section competition an 83-year-old player was offered a ride
in another player’s buggy. The owner of the buggy had a medical certificate
permitting him to use the buggy. The 83-year-old gentleman did not. A player
behind also using a buggy and having a medical certificate witnessed the
gentleman making use of the buggy and advised him he would be disqualified for
using the buggy in the competition without having a medical certificate. Are
you aware of this rule? I cannot find anything in the rules index relating to
buggies.
Apparently
the argument is that using a buggy and not having a medical exemption puts a
player at an advantage over others. If this is so then surely using an electric
trolley puts a player at an advantage over a player carrying his/her clubs.
Thank
you,
Dear
Lou,
The
Committee has the option to ban motorized transportation in a tournament as a
Condition of the Competition. Players with physical disabilities may be
exempted from this ban [Appendix I, Part C: Conditions of the Competition, #8].
When
the Committee requires players to walk, a player who rides in a stroke-play
tournament incurs a two-stroke penalty at each hole where he breaches the rule,
maximum four strokes per round. In match play, the status of the match is
adjusted (maximum two holes).
Linda
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