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AndyP
23rd June 2004, 10:08 AM
Just checked my Golflink record. Instead of being 13.0 as expected, it showed 13.1. It seems that my card from Yowani has been processed twice. The first entry has the correct date of my round (11/6). The second entry is listed for 15/6, and I definitely didn't play there on that date.

How could this happen? Has the same card been sent back to my home club twice (once as fax, once by mail)? Or is this a stuffup by Golflink?

I'll have to chase this up, as I prefer my handicap to be an accurate reflection of my rounds.

Fishman Dan
23rd June 2004, 10:35 AM
GolfLink is (once again) barely struggling to get the job done. There are far too many holes in the system, too much exposure to human error.

"In a perfect world", all golf clubs are permanently linked to a centralised database at the AGU/GolfLink (Cendant?), so scores are actually and immediately updated at the conclusion of a round/event (and therefore negating the need to return cards?). But seriously, who's going to pay for every club to sit on a permanent connection to the internet? Certainly not the AGU, or state golfing associations, and the clubs wouldn't have a bar of it.

I am still waiting for a card to get back to Casino from Lismore - all of 20 km's away from each other. :roll: Bare in mind i played Gordon last weekend and they've already managed to update GolfLink. Seems like the clubs just aren't interested in making this system work.

AndyP
23rd June 2004, 10:48 AM
But seriously, who's going to pay for every club to sit on a permanent connection to the internet?
Maybe not permanent connection, but they could have a system where they log in at the end of the comp and the local software uploads it to Golflink. Wouldn't take long either, as it would just be a small data file.

Fishman Dan
23rd June 2004, 11:08 AM
a system where they log in at the end of the comp and the local software uploads it to Golflink

And isn't that where we are now? Who would be in charge of that, Hugh Manerra? :roll: :P

At Gordon they run a local database, so i can swipe at the start of the round (even as a visitor), and i guess somehow that's replicated to GolfLink at the end of the day. When i checked in on Sunday, they asked "Are you still off 17?" - so obviously they just keep tabs on local players. If every club does that, hey presto, you've got 5000 databases running independently around Australia.

For GolfLink to truly work this in-house system needs to work on a macro scale..

gazgolf1
23rd June 2004, 01:33 PM
a system where they log in at the end of the comp and the local software uploads it to Golflink

And isn't that where we are now? Who would be in charge of that, Hugh Manerra? :smt005

I think I know him.

Courty
23rd June 2004, 04:31 PM
I know what you mean. I'm still waiting for a score to show up from when Onewood, wavemaker and I played at Half Moon bay... and that was early May!

drunken
23rd June 2004, 04:49 PM
I don't understand why they even send the card back to your club :?
They should just enter the score straight into Golflink like the members who are playing in the comp. ???

goughy
23rd June 2004, 05:47 PM
Recently, every game I've played at my home club has been updated on golflink by about 6pm the same day.

I played a round at mt coolum a couple of years ago, and they completely stuffed it up. Don't know what they did, but my hc dropped from about 12 to 8 after the round, even though I played something like 5 or 6 shots over my hc.

I just let my club know, they checked it and made an official adjustment.

markTHEblake
23rd June 2004, 09:02 PM
How could this happen? Has the same card been sent back to my home club twice (once as fax, once by mail)? Or is this a stuffup by Golflink?

Human error mate.

Quite a few times someone at my club has submitted the scores for the day into golf link twice. Strange that yours was for different dates though.

I assume you mean that the club you played at doesnt have golf link so they faxed the card through - therefore its Nambours handicapper that made the blue.

But you know, handicappers are like umpires, they NEVER make a mistake.

Fishman Dan
24th June 2004, 08:11 AM
Recently, every game I've played at my home club has been updated on golflink by about 6pm the same day.

Home club isn't a problem - i think the system is designed to allow the Home Club to enter scores into GolfLink, so the card requires returning if you play away from your Home Club.


I played a round at mt coolum a couple of years ago, and they completely stuffed it up. Don't know what they did, but my hc dropped from about 12 to 8 after the round, even though I played something like 5 or 6 shots over my hc.

Possibly the software they used at that club? Instead of entering the strokes you took and it worked out your Stableford score, they may have entered your points scored, and it worked out a Stableford score on that. I saw that happen once, a player had something like 75 points for the round (lots of 2/5, 2/6 etc) :roll: