Recent content by federalexpress

I think what your club has done is the right path. In the end, cheap and poor quality is itself a risk and a race to the bottom. The interesting part is the balance to strike. Benchmarking to other clubs makes sense in evalating your appeal to new members but for existing members, 'value'...

I think your example demonstrates the risks and opportunities of the current situation on fee increases. It occurred to me that part of the problem is that, unless there is clear investment for improvement occurring, we have until recently not been used to anything other than token increases...

The (or board in our case) having taken into account feedback. It also meant the green staff could focus on the task in hand.

Yep. Because they didn't want to take their turn playing the 'bad' course.

I think this comes down to what you mean by priority or special treatment. If it just means that there are block bookings for competitions for some of the tee times on a given day, I don't see that as priority or special treatment. While I and very many others don't play in comps, lots of...

But unless you operate very differently, part of the nominal fee goes to a small prize fund, and in our case, the rest towards the salary of the bloke the club employs to manage comps. It is not thefore creating any extra fee income versus a social golfer. On your second point, we are two...

It really really isn't. People like me take their social golf more seriously than someone else winning a naff trophy. Everyone to their own, but if we all pay the same fee, we have to get equal treatment on the courses we pay for.

Really? I suppose if it's a 2 ball behind a 4 ball, then yes. But same number of players, then every match I've been around has always been way, way slower and it's me that is held up. They map out each putt as though they are Nicklaus but play like Schwarzenegger. All to win 50 quid...

Except of course that it isn't (I can't do those emojis, but imagine one)

Sure if it's to protect the course from extreme wet. But ours was a little different, we were overseeding the fairways on one course, actually trying to replace the resident grass with a different type, more suited to the parkland nature of this course. We did this after an extremely dry period...

Yes although my own experience is stuck behind them as they take 5 hours for a round because it's 'a match'. What cracks me up is the time they take to line up a putt when they can't even reliably hit a putt straight....

Of course, it will be the committees or board doing that but it doesn't change my point. My game is at least as important to me as theirs is to them. Mats for all, without discriminating, is a different matter if needed to improve course condition. Generally we don't use them except once for...

I'm not surprised. I am among that large minority- at some clubs, maybe even the majority- who rarely plays in comps, but enjoys social golf. Given we all pay the same fee for presumably the same access, it has always amused me that people think their game is more important and to be...

Hosepipe ban now in force...

I think I probably would too, especially now that we at Minch have finally for around to implementing a traffic light system so it's not a case of having to shut it just because buggies would be too damaging. Now there are stages of it being open and if it is fully closed, at least you know it...