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Re: Country Club Kitty

• TallAcePaul 1,455 Posts

  Thu, Jul 22 2010 1:53 AM

  Hi WGT

  This is an absolute must and should not be all that difficult to set up, I would imagine =0

  We need to have some kind of bank account in the country clubs so that members can pay credits into it. This allows for a central paying out point for club competitions. Its just really messy trying to sort this out at the moment.

• WGTniv 1,788 Posts

  Fri, Jul 23 2010 1:10 PM

  Hi paul,

  There shouldn't be anything that you have to sort out.  If 10 players enter a club tourney @ 100 credits each, then 800 credits are available for the purse.  That provides the payout for club competitions automatically since the purse is provided directly by the players themselves.

  A club "treasury" sort of thing has been discussed, but due to the restrictions on some states/countries it wouldn't be able to be used as a payout point.  We have some other ideas that we're kicking around for the use of a 'treasury', but nothing has been set in stone quite yet.

• TallAcePaul 1,455 Posts

  Mon, Jul 26 2010 5:39 AM

  Hi Niv

  The reason this has come up has been that we are looking at setting up a handicap system in the club. With the current set up the lowest score in the tournament gets paid out and as you know in a handicap tourney this is not correct.

  The reason behind the handicap system is to encourage everyone in the club to pay to enter a tourney and feel that they actually have a chance of winning, otherwise you have the same people always coming out on top and before very long you have just 5 or so people involved.

• TallAcePaul 1,455 Posts

  Mon, Jul 26 2010 5:46 AM

  And surely there can be no issue with people paying a membership fee to join a club and then paying annual fees in credits to stay a member. This happens at every golf club all over the world. We are not talking about gambling here we are talking about setting up a virtual golf club where people pay to be members and where tournaments are played in which prizes can be won.

  I cannot see how WGT could object to this as the credits are coming from them and the prizes will be coming from the PRO shop.