Changing Shoes in the Car park

Changing Shoes in the Car Park

  • Is it Taboo at any time

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • We should respect the Clubs Rules

    Votes: 51 36.7%

  • Its an outdated and draconian view

    Votes: 81 58.3%

  • Other, please explain

    Votes: 10 7.2%
  • Total voters
    139
Snelly said:
Spoken like a true Scot! :)

For what it is worth, I absolutely think that everyone should have a minimum spend. If a card system for bar payments is in place then I think that £200 should be put on this by every member at the start of the calendar year and this should form part of their annual subs.

This encourages the social side of the club and ensures that expenditure to run and maintain the catering and bar is adequately covered.
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...or just have a welcoming clubhouse with good food and service and people will use it, bring friends and possibly work colleagues making the potential 'contribution' by each member over £200 in real terms....:thup:

I've been a member at a club where without exception every member spent more than that figure annually (considerably more) as the facilities were excellent. I've also been at a club where it was a bit 'tired', average food and nice enough service......some won't even spend the £50 levy forced on them at the start of the season. That's not good enough these days where people demand quality and service and are prepared to pay for it....
..if you build it they will come
 
DarthVega said:
...or just have a welcoming clubhouse with good food and service and people will use it, bring friends and possibly work colleagues making the potential 'contribution' by each member over £200 in real terms....:thup:


..if you build it they will come
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Yes siree... do good food at a good price , make people want to come into the clubhouse , sell the idea to them , a person who wants to be in the clubhouse spending will bring others , a person who be is grudgingly in the club house will only prove to casual or one off visitors why they dont come in the 1st place ..
 
DarthVega said:
...or just have a welcoming clubhouse with good food and service and people will use it, bring friends and possibly work colleagues making the potential 'contribution' by each member over £200 in real terms....:thup:

I've been a member at a club where without exception every member spent more than that figure annually (considerably more) as the facilities were excellent. I've also been at a club where it was a bit 'tired', average food and nice enough service......some won't even spend the £50 levy forced on them at the start of the season. That's not good enough these days where people demand quality and service and are prepared to pay for it....
..if you build it they will come
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This adds in a different subject entirely which is the quality of the food and the ambience. I agree it needs to be reasonable. Invariably it is the people that make the club though, and if you encourage more and more people into the bar then you will generate a better sense of being a proper members club with a shared interest and sense of fellowship.
 
Valentino said:
Nonsense Snelly, I know where you come from on it but if you increase fees by £200 and get it back as you spend it then a lot of people would potentially reconsider if they can afford their membership.
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It isn't nonsense and works beautifully at lots of clubs. And I am not suggesting an immediate hike of £200. It would need to come in gradually. And it cannot just be done in isolation. As others on this thread have quite rightly said, I pre-paid amount on a club card is only feasible if the club has got the environment, service and food right in the first place.
 
bladeplayer said:
Yes siree... do good food at a good price , make people want to come into the clubhouse , sell the idea to them , a person who wants to be in the clubhouse spending will bring others , a person who be is grudgingly in the club house will only prove to casual or one off visitors why they dont come in the 1st place ..
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Proof by example:-

My old club you could get a bacon sandwich and a pot of tea for £3 the sandwich was packed and cooked to your liking, the pot of tea would normally give you 3 cups worth. One weekend we paid a visit to Hawkstone Park, bacon batch and pot of tea for over a fiver bacon batch 2 slices of chef Mike's bacon and pot for 1 cup, ever since then we stopped at Aldersey on the way through, when playing Hawkstone, for breakfast!
 
Is there really a 9 page thread about changing shoes in the car park??? Who gives a monkeys? Sometimes I wonder about this place...
 
Some interesting replies here. I'm a member at 2 clubs, one has a sign forbidding changing in the car park. I have a locker where I store my stuff so always change in the locker room.

Would be interested to hear from those that change in the car park, what type of club are you members at? Council/public, propriatory or private members clubs?
 
Snelly said:
It isn't nonsense and works beautifully at lots of clubs. And I am not suggesting an immediate hike of £200. It would need to come in gradually. And it cannot just be done in isolation. As others on this thread have quite rightly said, I pre-paid amount on a club card is only feasible if the club has got the environment, service and food right in the first place.
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I agree with the sentiment but the more the levy the more resistance, £50 is more than enough and if anyone wishes to pay more at the start of the season the that should be an option, totally agree on the quality aspect but at the same token if the quality aspect is there then there is less need to force a large levy as members may be more inclined to use a good quality clubhouse.

People need choice.
 
I really can't read through several pages of changing shoes in the car park, I do it and 99% of the time go to the bar
 
Oh hold on - No changing in the car-park - yeah that makes sense. No shirts being taken off, no trousers being changed. Sorry, but this statement doesn't extend as far as putting your golf shoes on. Have you been into a shoe shop lately? Ever wondered why they don't have changing rooms but clothes shops do? Come on, have a bit of common sense.
 
There are Clubs that, rightly or wrongly, don't allow it and will deny entry to those that do.
It's antiquated and nonsensical but if you want to play at a club that has this rule you should abide by it.
 
Take gear out of car, set up trolley, load bag and walk to changing room, change shoes and leave ordinary shoes under benches on shelves provided.
After round stow gear in car walk to changing room and change shoes then into bar for post round drinks, does for me 90% of the time.
 
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