Attracting Women

Why is this in OOB when it's golf related?
It's such a tricky thing to get right I guess.
As for the thread our place is full of em!
 
Wow - v unimpressed! Make the course 4500 yards? Have nice gear in the pro shop? Have a separate locker room?

Missed the #1 thing. Equal rights, especially equal access to the course at weekends!
 
My club started what they call a 'Taster Lady Scheme' It is primarily focused on non golfing ladies who would like to start. They offer six months membership, a corse of lessons and other ladies taking them around the course for a fairly small outlay. If they take up membership they get their outlay deducted from the joining fee. It has brought in around an additional thirty new lady members over the three years.
 
Hooper said:
Are you saying you dont get equal rights to your course at the weekend?
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Nominally we do. In practice we don't.

Basically when there's a men's comp on the course is effectively closed for the whole day. When there's a ladies comp at weekends tee is reserved for 3 hours at the very most (7.30 - 9.00 and 1.00 - 2.30), usually less. So effectively men can get a game when there's a ladies comp on but not vice versa.

Discussed this briefly on another thread, it's a function of relative numbers rather than any sort of discrimination but still not great. Also consider the gents open is held on the weekend, ladies open is midweek.
 
Rooter said:
thread title = let down. nothing more to add.
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I know what you mean.. at least I didn't get lured in by the thread title..... oh, hang on..... :angry:

Feel like i've been stung by a cheap dood-to-door salesman :mad:

Still, more women at golf courses? Good subject, we should do more, not just old women though! :mmm:
 
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Personally I don't think there should be any restrictions for women and club comps should include them. Why should they have separate competitions? Are we really scared about loosing to women?

As long as the same etiquette is applied they should have free reign just like us blokes
 
I have no problem with the amount of women players at our club but it does get on my wick that they HAVE to have a comp on the Saturday of the mens 3 day monthly medal and 3 day monthly stableford. They have other Saturdays in the month yet they have to have it on ours. They say they don't do it on purpose but it's the same days every month on the first Friday, Saturday and Sunday and the third Friday, Saturday and Sunday. They already have EVERY Thursday and if you have a game while any of them are still out on the course it's daggers at dawn!
 
The only competetive lady member at my club plays in the competitions, without any problems. Male and female handicaps are worked out using the same formula so there is no logical reason that the competitions cannot be mixed.

I would imagine clubs with a reasonable number of lady members offer ladies competitions as a way of keeping them on board.
 
Andy808 said:
Why is this in OOB when it's golf related?
It's such a tricky thing to get right I guess.
As for the thread our place is full of em!
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good point, moved by a mod who maybe assumed it really was about attracting women, possibly move it back fellas as its a golf topic and a very topical topic not typical of the usual topical topics :smirk:
 
Maybe, instead of attracting Women, the focus should be more on the attracting and keeping of girls (yes I do realize that this sentence makes me sound like a serial killer).. I think that we have a relatively healthy ladies section at my club, but I can count the girls in the junior section on one finger.... Now that always seemed to be the real problem to me...
 
Andy808 said:
I have no problem with the amount of women players at our club but it does get on my wick that they HAVE to have a comp on the Saturday of the mens 3 day monthly medal and 3 day monthly stableford. They have other Saturdays in the month yet they have to have it on ours. They say they don't do it on purpose but it's the same days every month on the first Friday, Saturday and Sunday and the third Friday, Saturday and Sunday. They already have EVERY Thursday and if you have a game while any of them are still out on the course it's daggers at dawn!
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Hi Andy,

I'm maybe not quite getting the structure of these comps but it sounds like you're suggesting women shouldn't be able to play on either the first or third weekend of the month?

As I always say on these threads, arguing that women have a day reserved for them midweek is a total red herring. Weekend access is all that matters if you want non-retired ladies in the club.
 
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