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USGA Virtual Open Championship *LIVE* Sat 6/27

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Sat, Jun 27 2020 5:13 AM

  Cheers Ken.

• MarchieB 1,530 Posts

  Sat, Jun 27 2020 7:27 AM

  Kenher01:

  Looks like she's out cos of a technicality
  "Guernsey is not part of the UK" 
  Google never wrong! ;)

  
  
  Romeo: "The U.S. Open? The biggest golf tournament in the world?"  
  Roy: "Not just the biggest golf tournament in the world, the most 
        democratic."
  Romeo: "What do you mean?"
  Roy: "I mean it's open."
  Romeo: "So?"
  Roy: "Anyone with a handicap or better's got a shot at it. You just 
        gotta get past a local and a sectional qualifier, and unlike 
        Doral or Colonial or the A.T.& T., they can't keep you out. 
        They can't ask you if you're a garbageman or a bean-picker
        or a driving range pro whose check is signed by a stripper. 
        You qualify, you're in.
  

• andwhy67 2,816 Posts

  Sat, Jun 27 2020 7:45 AM

  agreed, hence the reason it’s an open??

• Kenher01 1,151 Posts

  Sat, Jun 27 2020 7:56 AM

  The USGA Virtual Open continues in this multi-round competition to determine the final 10 prize-eligible players. The top 156 scores (plus ties) from the qualifier will compete in four 18-hole single-play stroke play rounds under challenging conditions on Congressional, Merion, Chambers Bay and Pebble Beach. The top 10 leaderboard scores from prize-eligible players after the four rounds will advance to the live streamed finale competing for the Championship title

  Prob would make it easier if non-eligible players couldn't enter/play but then they would be missing out on 2000 creds which they can get if they finish in Top 156

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Sat, Jun 27 2020 8:36 AM

  She is eligible. 

   

  West Yorkshire and verified.

• Kenher01 1,151 Posts

  Sat, Jun 27 2020 8:38 AM

  I believe ya bubbs,

                                 She needs to get rid of that Guernsey Flag then til the next time

  

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Sat, Jun 27 2020 8:46 AM

  True.

   

  She not long changed it Ken. Trying to get one as close to St George's flag that wouldn't just be blank on leaderboards. 

   

  But all her documents are there with WGT. Looking at a flag is their check.

• andwhy67 2,816 Posts

  Sat, Jun 27 2020 9:30 AM

   Participation in the Contest is open to individuals who are 18 years of age or older.  Note, however, that only individuals who are legal residents of and physically located in the fifty United States and the District of Columbia, Canada (excluding Quebec), the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Norway, Ireland, The Netherlands, and South Korea who are 18 years of age or older or the age of majority in the entrant's state or province/territory ("province") of residence, whichever is greater are eligible to win prizes.

  So residing on an island in the southern hemisphere qualifies oneself?

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Sat, Jun 27 2020 11:01 AM

  And United Kingdom she lives and proved it to wgt for verification reasons many moons ago.

   

  Poor really but is what it is.

• andwhy67 2,816 Posts

  Sat, Jun 27 2020 11:29 AM

  bubbsboy:

  And United Kingdom she lives and proved it to wgt for verification reasons many moons ago.

   

  Poor really but is what it is.

  shame indeed, especially if it was all verified, but maybe the “chap” who lives as mentioned isn’t eligible for the prize, but that’ll probably be overlooked too.