Club Championship - Day 1

[Tocgolfer]

Club champion is the player with the lowest score after they finish 18,36,54 or 72 holes or match play if that is how you determine club champion. Winners for each grade or division might call them self club champion but in my way of thinking they are grade or division winners but unless one of them scores the lowest score overall then they are not “club champion”. 
Nett winners can claim they are nett winners but the true test of a champion is who scores the lowest gross score.

[3fiddyz]

just won my clubs overall net... but wouldnt try to own it from the gross winner.

 

He got the jug, i got the plate(s)... how it should be!! 

[ebk]

On 8/27/2020 at 2:44 AM, 3fiddyz said:

just won my clubs overall net... but wouldnt try to own it from the gross winner.

 

He got the jug, i got the plate(s)... how it should be!! 

 

Congratulations!

[mantan]

We have a Club Championship weekend.  There is a 'Championship' flight that guys enter to play gross.  Everybody else plays in a flighted 36 hole net tourney.

 

The winner of the Championship flight is Club Champion.  The other winners are flight winners.  There is a payout for lowest gross and lowest net. It's one of our biggest events.  (Good excuse to golf all weekend).   Nobody confuses a flight winner or low overall net as 'club champion' and everybody has a great time.

 

 

[mantan]

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Edited August 31, 2020 by mantan

[2bGood]

Our club has net flights alongside a Championship gross flight. In theory we have a Net Champion, but it is not really seen as an honour to win it, more of a footnote to the weekend as the winner of low net is seen as the best sandbagger, rather than best golfer. ?

 

The Club Champion (gross) is a massive honour and a big deal!

[Oufcfan]

Maybe this is the difference between U.K. and US Golf clubs again? The Net winner at my club has played 14 comp rounds since we started playing comps again in July after lockdown ended (I’ve played 30 competition rounds) so I don’t think anyone thinks he’s a sandbagger. 
maybe our views will change after WHS comes in here. 

[deadsolid...shank]

On 8/30/2020 at 10:00 PM, mantan said:

We have a Club Championship weekend.  There is a 'Championship' flight that guys enter to play gross.  Everybody else plays in a flighted 36 hole net tourney.

 

The winner of the Championship flight is Club Champion.  The other winners are flight winners.  There is a payout for lowest gross and lowest net. It's one of our biggest events.  (Good excuse to golf all weekend).   Nobody confuses a flight winner or low overall net as 'club champion' and everybody has a great time.

 

 

Exactly how ours was run. By using flights it encouraged more participants. No one EVER confused a flight winner with the club champion. 

[milesgiles]

I won my net this year, lost on the third playoff hole in the gross. The bandidos had a bad day 

[milesgiles]

The problem is Andrue the way you worded your first post told everyone you were playing for the club champio

On 8/22/2020 at 1:48 PM, andrue said:

Scored 92 for 72 (two over). The front was poor at 51 but I pulled it back with 41 on the back. So not only kept my head in a competition but actually able to stage a recovery. Round 2 is tomorrow and the current leader is on net 64. So I'm still in with a chance. If I hadn't had a poor front I could have been on top.

 

It’s bad wording/phraseology on your part. ‘The current leader’ of your championship wasn’t on net 64.  The leader was the lowest gross, unless you are going to call the net winner champion.. unheard of in the U.K. far as I know 

[naval2006]

There's four Club Championships at my club.  Two are net and are mostly to encourage participation of members in match play competition.  Net Fourball Championship and Net Individual Championship attract lots of players.  In a way, the winner deserves recognition.  Then there's the Senior Club Championship, gross match play competition.  And then the king of Championships: Club Championship, which means 36 holes strokeplay qually and match play with a 36 hole final round on Sunday with a lot of club members following the action.  All champs play a strokeplay qually (18 holes save the Club Championship) and then the best 15 and the defending champions get into the matchplay rounds.  Lots of thrill in the net competitions since most players can participate with a chance of winning. 

 

And the real Club Championship is a big deal: the best players wait for spring to show who's boss for the upcoming year.  Our greatest champion has won 9 times, the last time in 2015, in his 50's.  Second best is a kid who won 7 times.  They can be really harmful in any type of match LOL. 

 

These are the times of the year when we stop playing strokeplay and plunge into the thrilling world of match play with its sorrow and glory stories.  Right now I got with my 78 year old Dad into the 16th finals of the Fourball Championship.   

[nlinneman20]

On 8/23/2020 at 7:26 AM, braincramp52 said:

I think that's cool. Anything that brings in more participants is a good thing. Wish our club would do it. 

 

Ya who would play otherwise, unless your a plus handicap.  I guess to play golf and drink but anyone can do that on any day of the week.

 

At one of my bosses clubs I've seen the daily handicap report they send out, they have a few guys who are +1-3 or so.  He is like a 13, why would he even consider playing?

[nsxguy]

1 hour ago, milesgiles said:

I won my net this year, lost on the third playoff hole in the gross. The bandidos had a bad day 

 

This is how silly most arguments are about sandbaggers.

 

Even when you played really well, and as a low handicapper WON your NET, you still need to complain about them.

[milesgiles]

7 hours ago, nsxguy said:

 

This is how silly most arguments are about sandbaggers.

 

Even when you played really well, and as a low handicapper WON your NET, you still need to complain about them.

 

Keeps me young ?

 

Side note I’d have been quite happy to not be in the net. Not to pooh pooh it we all have handicaps for a reason 

[J Bez]

We have a championship flight played at scratch over three days  and then other flights based on handicap played over 2  - 1 club champion but gives others the opportunity to win their flight