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Re: Credit Bank/FreeRoll Ideas Update

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Apr 8 2015 11:47 AM

  1enigma1:

  Min of "5" players because someone sweetened their own pots to increase their career earnings :) ..

  Yeah, I don't doubt it. I don't gamble and pay no attention to earnings. I have my own money. I would only provide the purse, but not play for it. ~ Lily ~

• Dubfore 4,350 Posts

  Thu, Apr 9 2015 9:11 AM

  Thanks all for the replies and suggestions, but I don't see anything there that's workable. the PayPal idea is a bit of a risk, it would require a lot of trust.

  The new idea to help improve our club that was put to our members at Easter week has got a great response.  Of those that responded (20+), 100% have endorsed the Pledge Proposal.  This pledge proposal has been adopted by the club.    

  The proposal was that members make a credits/equipment pledge towards the Fair Play Golf Club Calendar Tournaments (now 18) prize fund, and that this should be part of our club membership policy.  

  The minimum pledge is 250 credits or equipment to that value.  Over 12,000 credits and some sleeves have been pledged so far.  All those that made a pledge will sponsor one or more prizes in our Calendar Tournaments, these are played from April to November, the Fair Play Golf Club season.

  Unless WGT give us the credit bank that the clubs want, the FPGC will use the 250 pledge idea as a trial/template for an annual pledge membership contribution, starting 2016.

  If any club owners would like more information about how we run our Calendar Tournaments, friend and message me, I'll be glad to pass on our ideas.

  Thanks again, Dubfore.

• lexmarkz33 8,662 Posts

  Fri, Apr 10 2015 9:13 PM

      Our Club is "Play For CREDITS Country Club"....so we have to come up with an innovative way to do that! Because ALL our tournaments are "interactive LIVE PLAY"!

      We use the WGT tournament format as a "Registration format" ONLY. Whereby the players put their credits in as if they are playing a tournament (usually 200 to 500 credits).... we call it the "Purse Set-up".

     Then we have a way for only the 3 placement winners to go back to redeem the purse credits at the end of each tournament. It work swell.....we have been using it for a couple of years now. This way WGT still get their 20% and control the pay-outs to the 3 placement winners.

     We are currently working on a way to involve random clubs in our Club Tournaments using the same system. We have over 25 interactive  "LIVE PLAY" CREDITS TOURNAMENT each month with "Credits Purses" using this system. Players feel safe putting their credits in (like a normal WGT format tournament) and allowing WGT to pay-out to the three winners....rather than a particular person doing it.

     An organized Club Bank would solve this problem. At the present this is the only way we have found to accumulate credits for an "interactive LIVE PLAY tournament. Message me for more information!

  Lexmarkz33(Bill)

• thesnakeyes 892 Posts

  Fri, Apr 10 2015 11:27 PM

  phred952:

  I've enjoyed membership there, and hate to leave, but that's always the last option.  Any suggestions from you here (or by PM), or from anyone reading this would be appreciated.

  Thanks, Jeff (Phred952)

  if you want active participation feel free to check my country club's website 

  Loadsa tourneys stroke tier based mp etc. Our own voice server too. For the new year we have a full PGA tour feel free to check out the calender

  PGA tour

  and check our website too

  NQHP website

  If this is for you then please goto my profile page and follow the instructions all tiers welcome

  cheers thesnakeyes (owner NQHP)

• MichaelStroke 2,066 Posts

  Sun, Apr 12 2015 6:08 AM

  1enigma1:

  SweetiePie:

  pot sweetener.  

  

  Min of "5" players because someone sweetened their own pots to increase their career earnings :) ..

  I thought their counter to that was to only make career earnings count when you play a tournament with 10+ contestants.

• phred952 2,714 Posts

  Tue, Apr 14 2015 6:36 AM

  Thanks for the offer thesnakeyes, but i have something else in the works.  Sadly, this problem exists almost everywhere.  Good luck with your CC.  It appears the only way to keep an active club is to keep getting rid of the dead wood on a regular basis.

  Phred952