I'm no team captain.....but that doesn't seem to be a pre-requisite for posting on this thread. What everyone ALSO needs to understand is the fact that this doesn't need to be taken personally one way or another.

As a former PGA Professional.....I had a RESPONSIBILITY to my fellow competitors to report not only rules infractions that I incurred.....BUT ALSO infractions committed by other players (whether intentional OR unintentional). It was/is referred to as "protecting the field". There's NO joy in reporting a rules infraction.....whether on a fellow competitor....OR on YOURSELF. Realizing that you violated a rule and owning up to it is the ultimate in competition ethics.....and THE reason I revere the game of golf (and MOST golfers)as I do.

I can't help but trust that everyone here is an ethical and trustworthy "fellow competitor". No one has done anything to make me think otherwise. But.....when we read the "My stand was stolen" threads.......don't you ever think that "someone" here among us has been on the receiving end of thefive finger discount side of that story???

As a "fellow competitor".....I'll live with what the captains choose. But.....should we really be having this conversation?

Good luck to all..........

Jeff