Failing to account
STEPHEN BOOCK
Falsifying scores on a golf card can be a very costly business as a British golfer, Trevor Powell, discovered. He was fined ?2470 and banned for five years from membership of the Professional Golfers’ Association for allegedly cheating. The penalty resulted from allegations that Powell recorded one stroke less than he actually took at four of the first nine holes in a tournament in London last May. He signed for a round of 72 instead of 76. An appeal by Powell against the amount of the fine and the length of the suspension was rejected by the P.G.A. board of management. Colin Snape, the executive director of the P.G.A., commented that it was the longest ban that he could remember. “There is cheating and there is cheating. The committee felt that this was> a particularly bad example and that was why the punishment was so severe.”
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