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Hopefully the drift is spending all the renovation money on removing trees. Terribly tight and poor architecture

It’s worth it over the other courses being mentioned. They only have waiting lists from the post lockdown rush, give it until renewal time next year and there will be openings

Surely Sunningdale or the Berkshire Edit: just seen you have a budget. I would stretch it and join West Hill or Woking

They were all probably in the top 5 strokes gained putting

It’s easy to return when someone else is paying Have you been? I think the masters and Augusta is looked at through rose tinted glasses. The history is shocking at that place with regards to race and political issues, Mackenzie was never paid for his work there and the course has been...

I’ve been a couple of times and regretted going both times. It’s too expensive for what it is, too many Americans for my liking, I couldn’t take my phone in for any photos and the place is over the top. The course is too green and conditioned, it sets the bar too high and is an example of over...

I've got a society day on 5th Nov, what are the chances that I'll be able to pre-register and submit my card for handicap? Will the infrastructure be up and running?

Already one club doing this successfully https://onegolfclub.co.uk/

Wow you like to argue your point. All well taken, but maybe understand that not everyone has your opinion. (Farmers fields I said a few of them, not all) I mentioned in my post that we have members who would like an official handicap but don’t have one because they are not a member anywhere...

Not everyone wants to be a member at a golf club. Many reasons why not, cost being one, not wanting to play the same course every week is another. Golf can be much more accessible, but thats a whole other debate and topic. Plus... there are too many golf clubs in this country. We could do with...

Thanks, I got my answer in the first reply. Only skimmed the rest of the replies. Maybe opening up official handicaps to more people would be a great way to make the game more accessible.. Oh no.. hang on. this is golf. Forget it... keep those barriers up for as long as possible. Societies can...

Not sure this would be the reason why. Perhaps the fear of golfers leaving clubs may be one valid reason

Hi all, Is there anyway for a golf society to obtain official golf handicaps? Would a golf society ever be able to be affiliated or linked to a club to gain official handicaps? I suspect the answer is no, but it would be great to see the powers that be allow and broaden how you can obtain...

So going backwards for the 20 rounds will they adjust the scores based on slope etc, or just take the gross scores? Does that make sense?

This is crazy and really doesn't make sense why congu would do something different. In an effort to create a uniform system, this breaks against that. Working out the course handicap for the 3 mens tees at my place makes a massive difference depending which method is used! Back tees I get 12...