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Some golfers have given up their amateur status when they have won a large prize for a hole in one on a Pro Am competition where the prize was a car.
A professional golfer can apply for reinstatement as a an amateur golfer after a laid down number of years.

And?

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And?

That is obvious.
Amateur golfers can only win a prize in a golf competition up to a certain value which must be taken in vouchers. From memory I think that the maximum prize in vouchers that an amateur golfer could receive in a competition was £500.
I also seem to remember that a professional golfer could apply for reinstatement as a an amateur to the Scottish Golf Union after they had been a professional golfer for three years.
It may have changed.
A number of good young amateur golfers have turned professional after they leave school only to discover that it is a difficult life being a professional golfer on various professional golf tours.

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That is obvious.
Amateur golfers can only win a prize in a golf competition up to a certain value which must be taken in vouchers. From memory I think that the maximum prize in vouchers that an amateur golfer could receive in a competition was £500.
I also seem to remember that a professional golfer could apply for reinstatement as a an amateur to the Scottish Golf Union after they had been a professional golfer for three years.
It may have changed.
A number of good young amateur golfers have turned professional after they leave school only to discover that it is a difficult life being a professional golfer on various professional golf tours.

Thanks for the clarification, although what it has to do with insurance I have no clue.

I hate golf, pointless game, so know next to nothing about it. Except that it's a game and not a sport of course.