That question comes up for me every day. I am Kay Higgins owner/CEO of the Kings Bay Promotions Amateur 9-Ball Tour. Fury cues is our title sponsor. I have a problem and need players help with this. We use the BCA Master List as our guide to who can and cannot play. It's really the only tool out there with any kind of info on it that shows us the status of a player. The problem I have is that I had a player lie to my tournament director and play in one of our events. We didn' let him play last year because he was on this list and we felt that he was above an amateur level that we are trying to keep this at. He caused me some flack and posted a bunch of negative stuff on this forum about us. I answered back and explained things to him. He did not like my explanation or decision. This time he showed up at one of my events in South Carolina and lied to my tournament director that Mark Griffin had assured him that he would be taken off the list. I know the BCA is working on the list and trying to work some things out so that was not an unbelieveable statement. I spend a lot of time on researching players and where they stand to keep people from slipping in on us. I'm not perfect and there are times someone that shouldn't play on this level gets in but I put them on a Watch list and then at the end of the season we decide their level and where they should be. As I said before we use the BCA list as a guide and add and take away from that list as players show up. I called Mark Griffin at the BCA and spoke with him about this player. He was upset that someone lied using his name to get access to one of our events. In other words he didn't even know the player nor has he planned on taking him off the list because of his stats with them. I am sending this players membership fee back to him with a letter stating that he cannot play in our events. If he hadn't lied and we had been contacted before he showed up so that we could research his stats and let him know where he stood it might have been different. We did suggest this last year when we said he could not play. We are trying to run a good amateur tour. A place where people that need to build their game can. We cannot do this if the people who are above the level comes in and takes it away. I wish that Mr. Brian White would contact me on this matter. I had requested a contact last year and he refused. I just want him and other players to understand what we are trying to do. Its not a perfect system but we are trying to build something here for the game. I appreciate all the players and thanks for listening.
Kay Higgins, CEO
Kings Bay Promotions
1-877-828-7449
email: kbp_amateur9-ball@gate.net
url: http://home.gate.net/~higgins3/
Kay Higgins, CEO
Kings Bay Promotions
1-877-828-7449
email: kbp_amateur9-ball@gate.net
url: http://home.gate.net/~higgins3/