A man held onto a rain check for 19 years, and this Myrtle Beach golf course honored it
The staff at Prestwick Country Club got a surprise on Dec. 4 when a golfer entered the pro shop and presented a rain check … from the year 2000.
The paper rain check was worse for the wear of two decades, but the course honored it.
Jason Corneau, a Prestwick assistant pro since 2001, was working the pro shop that day.
“He came in and said, ‘I have a weird request,’ and he opens his wallet and pulls out this half-torn, old-looking piece of paper and he goes, ‘I have a rain check from 2000. Do you guys honor that still?’ Corneau said. “ I said, ‘Yeah, they’re good forever. We’ll take it.’ It’s not a duplicate or anything. It’s the original one. I was just impressed he kept it that long.
“I had to take a picture of it.”
Corneau said the golfer, who was visiting from a northern state, possibly Ohio, said he was going through an old golf bag and came across the rain check. He was by himself and played a solo round.
“He was like, ‘Oh wow, you’re going to accept this?’ We weren’t going to tell him no because we don’t want to leave any bad tastes in people’s mouths,” Corneau said.
Prestwick’s rain checks were hand-written then, and it was issued by a student at Coastal Carolina who was working part-time in the pro shop. The course’s rain checks are now printed on thermal paper.
“We do not put expiration dates on our rain checks so it was valid and it was the right thing to do,” said Jay Smith, who has been Prestwick’s head pro since May 1999. “It’s a pretty neat thing. You don’t see that come up a lot. When we write them out, we tell them there’s no expiration date. We’d take it if we got one from opening day.”
This story was originally published December 17, 2019 at 1:47 PM.
