Championship Courses, Tee Time Scammers
 

So as far as I know, this is the first time this has happened to me (but I'm going to look closer at my play history, just to find out).

Someone just used my name & number to make a Tee Time Reservation. I know who the person is and I haven't played golf with him, in years.

A) What do I do about it ... who do I call?

B) How do I make sure it doesn't happen again (there are only 2 or 3 people that have my number).

Why not ask the guy you suspect, if he accidentally used your info.
The tee time folks can help if you don't like his answer.........

Under your name and number you can cancel reservation. Since you have given your name and number to this person, then not much you can do except publicly shame. He is using you as a place holder for someone, so do what makes you happy if it interferes with your plans.

You willingly gave your number to make tee times with a group. Mistake or not.. It’s common practice to hold a spot, but usually in our case was asked first.

There's no "suspect", the information is clear.

It's pretty hard to do that, "accidently", considering you get a confirmation on the screen, then an email.

Someone in the reservation used your number. Just cancel. Call the course and let them know why. Hopefully they won’t give you points

Doing that, simply allows such abuse to continue.

It's not acceptable for someone to affirmatively try to abuse and cheat the system and use my name to do it.

Just call or talk in person to the guy that did it. Tell him to not do it in the future. If he does, then call the tee time office.

My opinion, address the situation yourself instead of expecting someone to handle it for you.

Oh I see? I just call the guy & ask him to call the Tee Time Office & tell them he tried to scam a Tee Time & oh by the way, make sure you don't assess points against the guy I tried to scam. That should work well.

There is a possibility that he inadvertently clicked on your name from the pull down menu of players when making a reservation on the Villages website. I have done this in the past when I was distracted. If it happened for a request (instead of a reservation) then my first thought is he was using you as a ghost golfer if you didn't have any points. For a reservation, however, there is a good possibility of just a mistake in the pull down menu as he could have just put in a guest. Just take yourself out. If the points for cancelling are an issue, call the tee time office.

Is your intention to stop the guy from using your info to ghost or is your intention that the guy gets punished for using it in the past?

Your original post made it sound like that you didn’t want him to use you in the future as a place holder.

I haven’t play championship course 12 years or more, don’t know the procedure of reservations. Heck some one could be using my name? Or does it make difference in points on championships courses cause I sure it there openings they will fill it regardless of points system? Then other question is, how did he get your information? When group plays does the person making the reservation had to have all pertinent information of other players on championship courses (players out of bubble wouldn’t have ID numbers) If not that person gotten you identification numbers somehow? Obvious question to me? you gave it to him how you know who doing it, so the system could be cheated for golfers that play 2 or more rounds day or want prime time slots at certain course?

So which suggestion are you going to pick?

.Either way one looks at it the person in question Did not Scam the number. The number was given willingly. Except the consequences that this may or may not happen again. Cancel the reservation, choose to contact the person or not. Either way lesson learned. It’s not the first time a reservation has been made with someone else’s ID, it won’t be the last. Or in case of scheduling 40 people you weren’t the special guy, just an error on users part. Most would just email the person LTK a mistake was made.

I don't play that much, but don't you need a PIN in addition to your member# to do the booking? Why would someone else have your PIN?

No, you don't. I don't quite get that part of the system. It doesn't make sense that you add anyone you want, as long as you have their #.