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Originally Posted by nfotiu

Question for anyone here..

My 13 yo son has started playing in these state golf association junior tournament. They're somewhat competitive, and rules are that players must walk. Spectators are allowed carts. Other tournament emails run by the same golf assoc, say explicitly players must not ride on carts at any time until their round is finished, but this one just says players must walk.

He was playing with 2 kids, and one of them had his dad drive him between holes on nearly every hole after hole 8 or so, and the other dad started around hole 13. There were some good hikes between some of the holes, and it was 90 degrees with a heat index near 100. That seems like a pretty significant advantage to get a ride between holes and lots of kids won't have parents out there with carts.

It didn't affect my son's standings or anything. He beat the egregious cart rider, and lost by a few strokes to the other mostly because my son had a rough front 9. It did bug me though, and probably bugged me way more because the kid also had a remote control power cart with a giant tour bag, probably 5k worth of clubs, and had to spend 3-4 minutes checking his gps watch and scoping the distance on every single shot even inside 30 yards!

What's everyone's thoughts? I didn't say anything. We're pretty new to this and the youth golf is a pretty small community, and he and his dad were nice enough guys. This was about my son's fifth tournament and first time I've seen anything like that happen.

Walking against a cart rider (especially in that heat) is a significant disadvantage. I have an electric cart and it makes an enormous difference for me as compared to pushing a cart/carrying. It sounds like a flagrant violation of the rules?