Get a Ruling • Re: Player/Marker disagreement
We all have to remember that the responsibility of the marker is to ask the competitor what he scored and record that score - it's not the marker's responsibility to observe and count all strokes and penalty strokes that the player takes or incurs. As stated in the definition of marker - he is not a referee.Thom wrote:I agree with RJM that the marker should not be dq'd (that censure of the marker is for when a marker signs knowingly for a wrong score). However he could probably have done a better job of guiding/informing the Committee of the facts to assist their process. For example, D6-6a/4 advises that the marker is to attest which scores he can verify. It would also have assisted the Committee if the marker advised whether the player did not count all his shots or were there situations of failure to apply the penalties under the rules. Also, could the marker have had another fellow competitor confirm his own count so it wasn't simply two competing views of the player's score for a hole? While this must have been a very trying process, the marker really needed to have infinite patience to best support the Committee's responsibility to apply the rules and protect the rest of the field.
If the marker has doubts as to the validity of the scores, he is to bring that to the attention of the Committee before the scorecard is returned so that the Committee can deal with it.
Statistics: Posted by RJM — Yesterday, 22:09