Frequently Asked Questions
On this page you'll find the answers to all your queries about Real Fantasy Golf, to help you understand how RFG works.
1: How do I complete my registration?
2: How do I receive my £10 referral refund?
3: What is the RFG virtual league?
4: How do I know I’m playing on a level playing field, if my course is more difficult than my competitors?
5: How long do I have to enter my score?
6: Does winning any of the prizes breach the rules on amateur status?
7: Your advert says that I will receive free golf insurance, what am I covered for?
8: What are my chances of winning a prize?
9:Once I have paid my membership fee, is there anything else that I have to pay for during the season?
1: As Club Golf Professional, what else do I have to do once I sign members up?
2: Do we need to send RFG our course scorecard?
3: As a participating golf club we get our own RFG webpage; how do we make use of it?
4: If a member wants to pay me by cheque, can I take payment?
5: What is Real Fantasy Golf’s preferred method of payment?
6: How do members get their Golf Lesson Voucher?
7: How do I get paid for the RFG Member’s Golf Lesson?
1: How do I complete my registration?
After completing the online registration and fee payment, you will receive an email with your user name and password. Simply sign in to your account as a member, with the password and user name, and you are done.
You can then go to your profile page and add your personal details.
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2: How do I receive my £10 referral refund?
You must add the person’s name you are referring to the form when you complete the registration form. The system will then track this
potential member and when he’s signed up, you will be credited with £10 (per completed referral). If you paid by credit or debit card,
via our Google Checkout system, your £10 will be refunded automatically to your card. If you paid by cheque,
we will pop a cheque in the post to you. If you are paying by direct debit (over 3 months) you’ll be credited with the £10 upon completion of
your final payment and sent a cheque in the post.
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3: What is the RFG virtual league?
Our virtual league system uses 2 of your monthly Official Club competition scores to compete virtually against other RFG members.
Simply input 2 scores during the scoring windows (dates shown on the scoring page) and monitor your progress in the various leagues,
via the standings tab on your personal profile page. There’s no need for extra golf, though there will be potential for actual matches
later in the season.
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4: How do I know I’m playing on a level playing field, if my course is more difficult than my competitors?
The CSS (Competition Scratch Score) takes into account course difficulty, weather conditions and scoring ability of each golf course independently and makes handicap/SSS adjustments to ensure everyone is playing with the same chances of winning.
All scores are converted into Stableford points but then adjusted against Competition Standard Scratch (CSS) e.g. If player scores 36 Stableford pts and the par is 72 but the CSS is 70 (2 less than the par of the course) player will score 34 pts.
Check out the link below, for more detail:
Competition Standard Score details
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5: How long do I have to enter my score?
Each scoring zone has a weekly window, so if you play in a competition at a weekend you have 2-3 days to enter your score.
However, we recommend that you enter your score as soon as possible after your round whilst it’s fresh in your mind.
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6: Does winning any of the prizes breach the rules on amateur status?
No all prizes are in accordance with the R&A rules on amateur status.
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7: Your advert says that I will receive free golf insurance, what am I covered for?
You will be covered for accidental personal injury and property damage with Golf Safe Insurance. The Golfsafe insurance policy
provides specialist, no hassle protection for golfers, everywhere you play. You can now play with complete piece of mind, anywhere
throughout the UK or on holiday abroad in the knowledge that any you may be deemed liable for will be expertly and efficiently taken care of.
Check out all the details on their website Golf Safe Insurance
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8: What are my chances of winning a prize?
In the ‘Race to Spain’ league, we are allocating 10 places (from 1500 members) to our expenses paid final event, so basically
this is a 150-1 chance, but your odds very much depend on how hot your game is and knowing whether to submit an average score or
try for a better round later in the month! The Monthly mini leagues comprise of a maximum of 50 players per league and the winner
and runner-up will both win a prize The Club leagues and Handicap leagues reward the most successful competitors at the end of the
season in each category, the prizes are based on a pool system and so this will depend upon the number of competitors per league.
For all the latest details please check out the prizes page on our website.
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9: Once I have paid my membership fee, is there anything else that I have to pay for during the season?
No, the membership fee covers you for all the leagues for all season and access to Fore!sight and free golf insurance for an entire year.
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1 : As Club Golf Professional, what else do I have to do once I sign members up?
Your main requirement is to speak to your members and encourage them to sign up to the exciting Real Fantasy Golf project.
We also request a link from your club website to the Real Fantasy Golf website. This enables us to provide our golf related discounts to your members and
improve our site rankings.Once you’ve signed members up, you’ll have extra golf lessons to organise and your commission to bank!
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2: Do we need to send RFG our course scorecard?
Yes please. We need to input your scorecard to our system. You can do this yourself through your club log-in on RFG or post your score card to us and
we’ll set it up for you.
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3: As a participating golf club we get our own RFG webpage; how do we make use of it?
You’ll have your own log-in to the Real Fantasy Golf website where you can promote your club and any offers you wish to promote. We request you provide discount offers to other RFG Members (not part of your club) to encourage them to come and play your course.
You can also provide an online booking facility for your club by providing your Caddymaster email address for email requests.
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4: If a member wants to pay me by cheque, can I take payment?
Yes, you can take his cheque and send it to us (payable to Real fantasy Golf) or pay it into your own bank account and make payment to us.
If the latter is the case, we suggest you get all the members payments together and make one payment to us.
As long as member’s fees are received by us by Sat 28th March, we’ll have enough time to process their membership.
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5: What is Real Fantasy Golf’s preferred method of payment?
Credit or debit card in full via our online checkout system. This way we are able to quickly process their £10 referral credits
directly back to their card.
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6: How do members get their Golf Lesson Voucher?
Each member must request the lesson voucher through his/her personal profile page on the website. They will get a printable voucher to download
and bring to you, his/her Golf Pro, in exchange for a lesson.
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7: How do I get paid for the RFG Member’s Golf Lesson?
When you’ve received their voucher and given the lesson, you simply send us their voucher and we will make payment to you for the lesson.
Remember you get £13 for every lesson you perform, and it is your sole discretion as to the length of each lesson.
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