![]() Certainly I might have a quiet word after the game just to inform them. If they beat me with their golf, they beat me. To be perfectly honest, fellow club member or not, I wouldn't call someone on something like that. Moral high ground and being correct is well and good, but people are strange when it comes to certain things and how they're perceived. That's fair enough, but personally if I had to potentially see a guy in the club every weekend for the next 10, 20, 30 years, I wouldn't have said anything, and pretty much taken the view of "so what if goes on and wins it". If the player knowingly played with the club then they are just as bad as the hcap bandits that ruin the game for the majority. The offending player should gracefully accept the disqualification and learn from the mistake. As someone earlier said they may well be players unknowingly out there with an illegal club but that isn't a defense when pulled up. Non-conforming clubs are not allowed for a reason and all players need to ensure that they do not breech this rule. But I would be gutted to win a match or competition and then be pulled up on it. I could have and most likely have never been called on it. I knew that when I joined a club and got my GUI Handicap that I was no longer going to be able to use that driver. The only issue was that on the hosel it clearly stated in print that after 2008 or something back then in was non-conforming. I think the model was a Big Bertha 11 pro series which was a smashing club that I hit very well. A few years back before I got seriously back into golf I had a Big Berth Driver which I had bought off Ebay. Rules are Rules and if we begin to choose which ones to follow and others to disregard it will become an even bigger minefield out there. Maybe I should have waited until after the round until I brought it up but can't change that now. ![]() I have contacted the competition secretary as I would imagine he is disqualified and I should be through to the next round or am I wrong? Still no reply from competition secretary. ![]() We finish out the match he won 2 & 1, no shaking hands, he storms off to the pro shop and goes off on another rant of how I called him a cheater etc. This leads to an expletive filled rant, and how dare I accuse him of cheating. He was 3 up thru 9 and after teeing off the 10th I asked if I could have a look at his driver, so I see that its the 440 SZ Unlimited and I tell him I'm almost certain that it is non conforming. I had suspicions early on in the round, since I know that's one of the most notorious of the illegal drivers. Played yesterday in the club matchplay singles, the guy I played against was using an old Cobra driver the King Cobra 440 SZ Unlimited to be exact. ![]()
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