Club committees

[jimjoachim]

Club AGM coming up and there are positions on each of the following open
- Management committee
- Social committee
- Golf committee

Does anyone know what each would do, how much time it can take up and who normally occupies these sort of roles (opening can of worms)

I have only been with my club for 2 years and would like to get involved at some point. At a guess i would say the demographic would be age 50+, >10 years membership and mid/low handicap golfer????

Cheers

 

[doc333]

Jim nothing wrong with wanting to get involved, and giving up your own free time to help the club. It is a thankless, time consuming job though I'm afraid, and you will get plenty of members forever pulling you, whilst you're trying to have a quiet drink, or even whilst out on the course. members forget how much time you give to the club and its free, so there should be rules banning members from trying to make approaches, moaning, telling you they know best, why don't you try this, and why is the scratch not that .....

Well done and enjoy mate

 

[Imurg]

Best bet is to ask the Secretary - some Committees take up all your spare time, some not so much. Worth a question..

 

[duncan mackie]

At a guess i would say the demographic would be age 50+, >10 years membership and mid/low handicap golfer????

Cheers

that's a stereotype that may, or may not, apply.

I've been on at 2 clubs over the years, and neither committee was even close to it - very widespread in all categories you list!

 

[Dodger]

Club AGM coming up and there are positions on each of the following open
- Management committee
- Social committee
- Golf committee

Does anyone know what each would do, how much time it can take up and who normally occupies these sort of roles (opening can of worms)

I have only been with my club for 2 years and would like to get involved at some point. At a guess i would say the demographic would be age 50+, >10 years membership and mid/low handicap golfer????

Cheers

I am guessing the Management will be involved more in the management of the club,the social on the social side and the golf on the golf side.

I may be wrong though.

 

[Hobbit]

Different clubs do things differently, e.g. at some clubs only the Chairs of each sub committee attend the Mgt meeting. Ergo they form the Mgt Committee.

Social committee; they arrange various functions at the club, and usually at least one of the committee attend the function for things like collecting the tickets/selling raffle tickets/announcing the act etc.

Golf committee; usually made up of those that administer handicaps and arrange comps/compile the results - can be very time consuming depending on how many are on the committee and how often comps are run.

 

[scottyfan]

One very important point to consider when taking on a role on any golf club committee.
Make sure that whateverposition you are taking is properly defined and documented and you
have a clear understanding of your remit.
If whatever you are taking on is being done by a member who operates "seat of the pants" ( most of it is in his head)
you are liable to spend a lot of extra time getting on top of your role.

Regards scottyfan

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Good to see someone prepared to take on some responsability.
Most members run a mile then stand back and bad mouth the fools who run the club.

On experience I would avoid the social committee.

 

[bigslice]

i stepped up after 1 year back playing golf to join the committee of my now away club. currently the VC and next year will be Captain. im classed as sensible and level headed (if only they knew). we dont get paid we dont get free golf we do it to help keep the club running.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I've been keen to get involved and continue to do so. We have a new general manager in place and so I'm trying to see how the land lies in terms of his powers, and how he will interact with the existing structure. I'm interested to see his views on how to market the club going forward