Same here you don't get in the team off scratch. Our matches tee off at 5pm, most of the team are young and setting out on their working life or have young families. We would not get them all out for all matches if they had to pay for a meal. Not heard one complaint from members, most of whom get some pride from having good players at the club. Can see the other perspective though, just don't agree with it.
Most inter-club team comps in my area are mixed handicap. To get picked you just have to put your name down for the squad and ideally be at least reasonably good at playing matchplay to your handicap. There are one or two scratch team comps, obviously for the better golfer though you don’t have to be scratch or better to play in the team - but only one or two.
No idea to be honest. I've been a member for 6 years but I've never heard of it. The email from the pro every week just mentions the team results and it's just the scratch team and the seniors team. Maybe there is a handicap team and I've just never heard of it. I wouldn't have the time to play in it anyway, maybe that's why I'd moan about subsidising others meals. Either that or because I'm Scottish.
I get that, but, and I don’t know how your club works, but we can play during comp times not being mandated to play in the comp, how would people feel if they had to pay £3 to the club to play at the exact same tee time as someone who wasn’t paying that?
Some of them are not even any good at golf. But I thank you for your contribution
Making the 2’s obligatory is unjust and unreasonable.A past club of mine was struggling financially and was losing every year on after match meals. At the AGM I raised why general membership was paying for this and you would have thought I'd shot Bambi. They couldn't understand why this would be questioned
Interesting that 2's is mandatory. I've not come across that before. Do people grumble about that or is it just accepted because it has always been that way?
It is huge. A lot of our 20+ members do not enter it - quite reasonably - as they see it as simply a transfer payment from high handicapper to the 5 and better hcs.
They do. Effectively the weekends are reserved for members. Competitions up to about 2pm normally. Casual golf after that, who OK, are not paying any extra fee, but again, its the mornings that are prime demand. The afternoons will be busy but not full. Its 7am to about 1pm that has people scrambling for slots once booking opens, and will be full.
Thats a difference alright. The competition slots are competition only - no friendly games, so you cannot play in one of those before 2pm slots without entering the competition.
Some of them are not even any good at golf. But I thank you for your contribution
There is a match next week at one of our relatively more illustrious neighbours. I didn't put my name down for it, but am on the distribution list. We have just had a reminder that it's collar and tie for the post-match meal. what a load of archaic nonsense.
I guess you are a proprietary Club. So does the £3 go to the course owners? If so who do you pay your annual Membership subs to?
No. Member owned, not for profit club. The £3 goes into the same running of the club finances as our subs do. Effectively I guess its a £30-100 levy on the average member who wants to have the premium weekends mornings reserved 52 weeks a year for them. I guess it could be spread across all members as a sub increase, but most regard it as reasonable I think.
Spot on.
I can see both sides of the debate, our club charge £3 to cover comps, the vast majority of the total raised goes into the prize pot with a small percentage going to the pro for admin. My personal view is £5 is way too high, if like me you are paying a healthy annual premium to be a member, in our case around £1700, and if as is the case at our club , your pro is getting a very fair retainer, then to use any increase as a "Stealth" tax to cover either an increase in the Pro's wage, or other club initiatives is unfair. The comps should be run as a non profit aspect of the clubs service to members , you are paying for the privilege of being a member and in return the club should offer basic services run not for profit such as comps
