Zaki Sheikh is seeking a judgment of more than $50,000 against the Edwardsville, Ill., club, claiming it stopped following United States Golf Association rules, which allowed a full handicap to be used in scoring tournaments, and “deprived him of benefits promised by membership to the club.”
A Madison County man is suing Sunset Hills Country Club over claims it has deprived him of benefits after a golf rule change, the Edwardsville, Ill.-based Madison Record reported.
Zaki Sheikh filed a complaint August 31 in Madison County Circuit Court. Sheikh, who claims he is an avid golfer with a high handicap, says he joined the Edwardsville, Ill., club in 1972 because of its affiliation with the United States Golf Association, whose rules allowed full handicap to be used in scoring in tournaments, resulting in unlimited play for a high handicapped golfer like Sheikh, the Record reported.
The complaint states that in the summer of 2013, Sheikh entered a tournament at the club and learned that it no longer followed USGA rules, refusing to give in match play a full handicap to a golfer with a USGA-rated handicap, the Record reported.
Sheikh, who has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to the country club, thereafter found it difficult to participate in tournaments, depriving him of benefits promised by membership to the club, the complaint states.
Sheikh seeks a judgment of more than $50,000, plus costs of the suit, the Record reported.
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