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Suspect a golf sandbagger? How your club can minimize the effects of golf sandbagging.

There’s an excellent article in pdf form titled, “Fairway Felons,” by David Barrett in the Chicago District Golfer magazine. He begins by stating,

“Sandbagging. No one likes to admit that it happens, but we all know it does. Here’s how to spot it and what your club should already be doing to get rid of it once and for all.”

According to Barrett “virtually all” forms of sandbagging fall into three main types:

1. “Oops! It just slipped my mind.” In this type the golf sandbagger “forgets” to enter some of his best scores.
2.  “Did I enter ‘91′? Must have pushed the wrong key.” This devious type of manipulation has the golf sandbagger intentionally entering a score higher than he shot.
3.  “Gosh, my putter really went cold in those last few holes.” In this more subtle form of sandbagging, the golf sandbagger misuses match and better-ball play to inflate his score (when the opportunity to inflate his score in a situation where the outcome is no longer in doubt).

Barrett points out that the USGA Handicap System includes a number of buffers against golf sandbaggers. More...

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BACKUP & RESTORE

A lost ball is one thing. Don't want to have to explain this loss... 

GolfSoftware.com has a very important service that is a feature of League Manager, Tournament Manager and Handicap System. The feature has nothing to do with golf, but a lot to do with the success of your golf group. Imagine if you lost ALL of your data for any one of these programs and there was no way to get it back. How would you explain it to your group that five year's worth of scores for handicapping purposes, the data for your league, which is almost finished, is all gone? Don't want to have to do that...

Under the left-most menu - "League" in LM, "Roster" in TM and HS - the second item from the bottom is "Backup / Restore data..." This lets you save your data and recover it, if need be. You can replace a crashed drive or a stolen laptop, but data once gone is gone...unless you have backed it up. A couple clicks of the mouse on a regular basis will prevent you having to try to explain the dreaded "the-data's-ALL-gone" scenario to your members.

How to run a Ryder Cup format using League Manager 

The original Ryder Cup was played between the best professional players from the United States and players from Great Britain. The event is named after Samuel Ryder, a British seed merchant who agreed to have a trophy designed and encourage the competition to be held on a regular basis. From 1939 to 1945 the event was not held due to war. Eventually, because of the domination of the U.S. players, European pros were added starting in 1979 and the competition became stiffer.

The history of the Ryder Cup as described at RyderCup.com states: "In 1979, when the Great Britain & Ireland Team was expanded to include players from Continental Europe, the format was revised to provide four fourball and four foursomes matches on each of the first two days and 12 singles matches on the third day. The total points awarded were 28. This format continues today."

From time to time our technical support staff is asked how to run the Ryder Cup format with our software. You can see how to do so using League Manager in our knowledge base. You can find the article by going to our Help page and typing "ryder" into the knowledge base search box.