JollyRedDevil
Club Champion
My club and most private clubs in Birmingham have this rule.
Car parks
- Thread starter robinthehood
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SatchFan
Q-School Graduate
It's just on a par with the nonsensical white sock rule.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
How could it possibly be more convenient to walk all the way into a locker room carrying one pair of shoes, then change them and walk back carrying the other pair, rather than just changing them where you stand??
richart
Major Champion
Bearwood Lakes has a strict no changing in the car park. 
Perhaps they don't like having their car park full of mud like ours. If you go into our changing rooms the shoe cleaning machine is right next to the door, and can be used to clean trolley's as well. It would mean walking an extra twenty yards for those who want to change in their car. Much too far for most that have already walked about five miles. We also get rubbish dumped in the car park as players can't be bothered to take home with them. Nice big bin in the changing rooms.
Use the facilities you have paid for them.
Perhaps they don't like having their car park full of mud like ours. If you go into our changing rooms the shoe cleaning machine is right next to the door, and can be used to clean trolley's as well. It would mean walking an extra twenty yards for those who want to change in their car. Much too far for most that have already walked about five miles. We also get rubbish dumped in the car park as players can't be bothered to take home with them. Nice big bin in the changing rooms.
Use the facilities you have paid for them.
JonnyGutteridge
Newbie
It's a rule at my club;
3. Dress Code
A good standard of dress is required at all times by Members and visitors. In particular:
Players must not use the car park for changing their clothes or their shoes;
3. Dress Code
A good standard of dress is required at all times by Members and visitors. In particular:
Players must not use the car park for changing their clothes or their shoes;
Russ_D
Club Champion
Fortunately for me I live in Huddersfield so the copius amounts of rain normally washes the mud awayBearwood Lakes has a strict no changing in the car park.
Perhaps they don't like having their car park full of mud like ours. If you go into our changing rooms the shoe cleaning machine is right next to the door, and can be used to clean trolley's as well. It would mean walking an extra twenty yards for those who want to change in their car. Much too far for most that have already walked about five miles. We also get rubbish dumped in the car park as players can't be bothered to take home with them. Nice big bin in the changing rooms.
. They often send one of the young assistant pro's out to sweep it as well on the odd occasion its hot and sunny.rulefan
Tour Winner
We don't have a rule but simply by convention no one changes shoes in the car park. I reckon one problem is that the debris just looks very untidy as if no one cares about the club. In addition, if people in street shoes walk across a car park littered with mud, they are likely to get on their shoes and transfer it to the carpeted clubhouse.
robinthehood
Hacker
This and trying to entice people into the bar are the most common reasons i hear, but neither really cuts it. You still walk to your car with a muddy trolley and shoes, and then are expected to walk back again?
Swango1980
Well-known member
We could change our underpants in the car park if we so wished. Although, I guess these "no changing shoes in car parks" clubs might allow that as well, if all they are worried about is getting the car park muddy.
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Deleted member 23270
Guest
Seems a real hardship for people to walk an extra 50 yards when they have just walked 6 miles ?
Ye Olde Boomer
Well-known member
Is a car park similar to a parking lot?
JollyRedDevil
Club Champion
robinthehood
Hacker
That's irrelevant, the question was why do clubs have the rule.
D
Deleted member 23270
Guest
I answered that question
robinthehood
Hacker
Do they have this rule in the US?
rulefan
Tour Winner
On the way to the car park there is an air-jet shoe/trolley cleaner adjacent to the locker room entrance.
Ye Olde Boomer
Well-known member
I'm not aware of it.
With the new, spikeless shoes, some players drive to the club wearing them.
With the new, spikeless shoes, some players drive to the club wearing them.
Tashyboy
Please don’t ask to see my tatts 👍
a,park is where you park your car hence car park. A parking lot is where you park your Lot ???
that aside if you played in dimples you could drove to the course in them hence no problems.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Give it a rest man, Jesus Christ.
Springveldt
Well-known member
Unless I want to input my score into the terminal since it's in the clubhouse and there is a no golf shoes rule for the clubhouse.
