LOL, they won't, I've just joined Banchory this month, having moved here last year, it's not my home club, tho that is also quite close by. Banchory is a great wee course, with one of the best clubhouses in the NEI'm meeting up with my Banchory cousins this weekend (though in Dunfermline not in Banchory) - must ask if they know of a local Buddha
You can't get a doctors appointment at my surgery unless you are one of the miniscule few to get through at 8am before the book is full at 08:00 and 5 seconds.
That's how it is. It's rare that we require more than 8 tee times so that's just over an hour from first to last tee off. And we all understand that that's the deal. That said I can ask for an early draw if I have a pressing reason, but we only make such a request on rare occasions where we have an unusual circumstance that day. If I have a later time we the to go the range for 15-30mins and hit a bucket of balls and/or have something to eat or drink. Indeed some who draw one of first three times will often swap with others drawn later be wise they wish to go to range.
We make the draw for fours and tee times at 10:15am. As the tee is reserved for us we don't have to all be by the 1st tee - we just go to it shortly in advance of our drawn tee time - or more often we are already there having a few practice putts as the practice putting green is by the 1st tee. I, and many others, rather prefer to tee off about 3rd or 4th group as that gives us time to hit a few balls on the range...something I know that I should do before going out but often don't.
I suspect that some, perhaps many, of your members may find that they were wearing rose-tinted glasses when voting - specially if more members are playing more often than was the case pre-pandemic.
So many booking tee times and just not turning up.
Classic vote tactics, split the opposing view...
So the problem was the memberships abuse of the booking system and failure to apply appropriate sanctions. Doesn't really tell you whether the booking system works for club and membership if used properly. Other observations re split vote also. As said I suspect that some will roll up and 'ball in chute' will find it less attractive than when they viewed it retrospectively through rose-tinted glasses. Especially if, as is the case in my club, more members wish to play more often, and more wish to play weekends, and maybe both days.
It's such a flawed vote that I'm not sure how they make any sense of it. If the results were 50% no booking, 50% booking and 0% hybrid system, then I'd still say hybrid system would be the best option since the votes were an even split - even though hybrid system gets no votes.
They should have just had the two options on what you prefer and decreed that if neither of them got more than 55% of the vote then they'd go hybrid. ??
Some just could not be arsed.
Yes imo both were at fault.
If we had returned to no booking as we had pre covid I think it would have resulted in chaos, and a lot of frustrated and angry members. I was one who wanted us to return to pre covid situation and see how it went before having a vote, but that didn't happen as I think we knew of likely chaos.
It's such a flawed vote that I'm not sure how they make any sense of it. If the results were 50% no booking, 50% booking and 0% hybrid system, then I'd still say hybrid system would be the best option since the votes were an even split - even though hybrid system gets no votes.
