Dress code.....again!

[richy]

What is the point of this thread now? It has moved on from the original question, which is fine but is now utterly pointless.

Let me make it easy for the hard of learning amongst you. If you don't like dress codes at golf clubs then don't go there and leave them for the people that do. Instead, go to your local golf "centre" where you can watch football on sky sports, drink Stella, wear your white trainers, lounge in your jeans, read the Sun, compare tattoos and discuss the relative merits of cheap Tesco wine and gas barbecues. You will have a whale of a time and I won't have to mix with you so everyone's a winner!

In the meantime, I can go for 18 Chav free holes of foursomes at my local top 50 ranked heathland course, get changed into a decent tailored suit, enjoy a rare rib of beef with a cote du beaune and retire to the members bar to talk about things that you would not want to understand or be interested in.

Best we don't mix. You think I am a dinosaur and I think you are a prole. It has always been this way and always will be. Every peg has a hole, find your niche and enjoy it and don't think that you should foist your idea of golfing heaven on others as it is probably their idea of hell.

No wonder people think most golfers are up stuck up their own arse.

 

[stevie_r]

What is the point of this thread now? It has moved on from the original question, which is fine but is now utterly pointless.

Let me make it easy for the hard of learning amongst you. If you don't like dress codes at golf clubs then don't go there and leave them for the people that do. Instead, go to your local golf "centre" where you can watch football on sky sports, drink Stella, wear your white trainers, lounge in your jeans, read the Sun, compare tattoos and discuss the relative merits of cheap Tesco wine and gas barbecues. You will have a whale of a time and I won't have to mix with you so everyone's a winner!

In the meantime, I can go for 18 Chav free holes of foursomes at my local top 50 ranked heathland course, get changed into a decent tailored suit, enjoy a rare rib of beef with a cote du beaune and retire to the members bar to talk about things that you would not want to understand or be interested in.

Best we don't mix. You think I am a dinosaur and I think you are a prole. It has always been this way and always will be. Every peg has a hole, find your niche and enjoy it and don't think that you should foist your idea of golfing heaven on others as it is probably their idea of hell.

So have you actually joined a club now or are you still poncing games wherever you can?

I'm slightly confused by the fact that you seem to think the wearing of jeans is in some way an indicator of IQ and/ or level of education, bizarre.

 

[Shiny]

So have you actually joined a club now or are you still poncing games wherever you can?

I'm slightly confused by the fact that you seem to think the wearing of jeans is in some way an indicator of IQ and/ or level of education, bizarre.

Or indeed compare tattoos with other people who have the same Masters degree as me, and yes I have both.

 

[Hobbit]

Although I agree with a number of 'rules,' standards and etiqutte I've always found it bizarre that I can have a round of golf with someone but if they change into jeans I couldn't have a beer with the same person. He's good enough to be on the course but he turns into some sort of axe murderer/child molester because he's put on a pair of jeans.

Way back in the mists of time, jeans were considered work wear and that's why they were banned in clubs - seen it in a club diary from the turn of the last century. The commonsense approach adopted by our predecessors in the game has been forgotten in favour of a blind "its in the rules" attitude.

"Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the adherence of fools."

As for tats, keep 'em covered... ;-)

 

[bluewolf]

Im loving the fact that most on this forum will rightly form an internet lynch mob if anyone is perceived to be judging people by their skin colour or sex, but will happily judge people based on their choice of attire.

I take as I see and if anyone doesn't want to have a drink with me because im wearing jeans (with a nice shirt and shoes), then thats fine as well. I'll probably not have much in common with you anyway.......

 

[Snelly]

So have you actually joined a club now or are you still poncing games wherever you can?

I'm slightly confused by the fact that you seem to think the wearing of jeans is in some way an indicator of IQ and/ or level of education, bizarre.

Still poncing thanks. Whatever that means....

And yes, you do sound confused when you state "the fact that you seem" - doesn't make sense really does it?

Let me help. The point I am making is this - if you like wearing jeans in the clubhouse then fine, join a club that allows this. Live and let live. It is really quite simple. The examples in my previous post were designed to illustrate this point by using two caricatures.

I would have thought that even knuckle dragging, denim clad, tattooed, Masters graduates (like me!) would be able to see this.

 

[Snelly]

No wonder people think most golfers are up stuck up their own arse.

Yes no wonder tiny brain.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Lets be a bit realistic here. Junior golfers bring little to a GC in all honesty, so why bother courting them with relaxed dress codes, be it in the bar or on the course, not many are going to become Rory Mcilroys. Most pay hardly anything in fee's and when they become adult golfers they move on to another club as readily as anyone else with money in the pocket. I'd rather have 1 adult member paying full money and adhering to the dress codes without constantly moaning about not being able to wear what they want when drinking a lucozade than have 20 junior members that pay less combined than an adult member and want to wear there keks around their ankles showing off their shreddies to all and sundry.

Jings, what a truly awful post.
If you really believe what you have written..shame on you, you have no place in golf.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I would be interested in what really triggered the change in policy as we have reconsidered the implications recently, based on the continual promotion of Junior golf, which results in a lot of parents wanting to use the clubhouse facilities when bringing youngsters to events over the weekends who wouldn't have given consideration to a dress code other than looking respectable etc

This put staff in a very difficult situation, and it was decided that the most appropriate step was to permit smart jeans over the weekend for this reason.

My club takes a relaxed view on the dress of parents or friends of juniors - pretty much anything casual but reasonably tidy is OK'd. As it happens the parents of our own juniors tend to respect the dress rules in any case and we try to be as welcoming as possible to those accompanying visiting juniors so generally don't pull people up.

This is I think particularly important when the junior may be visiting the club as part of any initiative to get more kids to join, and so parents etc may not appreciate that golf clubs have a dress code.

But I'm pretty sure we would not go down the jeans route to encourage more use of the clubhouse by members when not playing. It's not the dress code that turns my mrs off from us going to the club for a drink or meal. She's just not a 'golf club' sort of person. And in general I don't think it would make any difference at all. Maybe if we had a snooker table...but we don't have the room for one.

 

[SocketRocket]

I can hit my driver 340 yards but only in my jeans. Funny that!

 

[North Mimms]

I can hit my driver 340 yards but only in my jeans. Funny that!

I don't possess a pair of jeans.
Should I buy a pair to improve my driving distance?

 

[bobmac]

I don't possess a pair of jeans.
Should I buy a pair to improve my driving distance?

I've got an old pair of 28" hipsters you could have if they're not too baggy for you.
They seem to have shrunk over the years

 

[patricks148]

I've just come back from a couple of away matches for the club and we played at Western Gailes.

What a fantastic club. Every round you played you were expected to wear Jacket and Tie to arrive in, change into golf attire then back into jacket and tie to have a drink in the bar.

Not for everyone, but i love tradition and would happily do this to play there.

if you wanted to wear jeans this would not be the club for you.

 

[richy]

Yes no wonder tiny brain.

You have such a wimpy weasely way of trying to offend people.

 

[Snelly]

You have such a wimpy weasely way of trying to offend people.

Whatever.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

It is only in recent golfing history that jeans have been frowned upon.
I think the new propriety clubs of the 1990's used it as a means of trying attract snobby members.
I also remember an ex chairwoman of ELGA wearing jeans when I played mixed foursomes on a top quality course in the 1980's.

 

[North Mimms]

Whatever.

"Whatever" ??!!

Surely only chavs wearing hoodies and trekkies say Whatever?
Innit.

 

[richy]

Whatever.

Ah touché

 

[North Mimms]

It is only in recent golfing history that jeans have been frowned upon.
I think the new propriety clubs of the 1990's used it as a means of trying attract snobby members.
I also remember an ex chairwoman of ELGA wearing jeans when I played mixed foursomes on a top quality course in the 1980's.

I think the banning of jeans was to keep Jeremy Clarkson out

 

[ArnoldArmChewer]

My club has recently relaxed it's dress code in the clubhouse, it is now permissable to wear jeans. I understand the reasoning behind it ie. encourage people to use the bar more in the evenings etc and hopefully increase revenue streams. There are no time restrictions, jeans can be worn anytime but they have to be smart not workwear jeans.

Really not sure how I feel about this. Is it the start of the slippery slope? This was introduced without any consultation with the members, maybe a survey should have been sent out first? It is a private members club, not proprietary.

IMO denim in any form should not be allowed, how do you differentiate between workwear and smart, at least with denim not being allowed you have a clearly defined boundary.

Our club allows it now and frankly it looks terrible.