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Dress code.....again!

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Snelly said:
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.
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snelly

A little bit OTT but I think your sentiment is absolutely spot on!

ps....West Sussex GC??
 
Snelly said:
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.
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It means that last time this debate came up, you saw fit to lecture one and all on how you felt golf clubs should be run. Strangely though, as you admitted at the time, you weren't even a member of a club.
 
stevie_r said:
It means that last time this debate came up, you saw fit to lecture one and all on how you felt golf clubs should be run. Strangely though, as you admitted at the time, you weren't even a member of a club.
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Not all golf clubs, just the ones which you might find him i'm guessing. -
 
drive4show said:
snelly

A little bit OTT but I think your sentiment is absolutely spot on!

ps....West Sussex GC??
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Of course OTT, written with tongue firmly in cheek but unfortunately taken literally by some!


And yes, The West Sussex GC is the club I had in mind I suppose as I live about 10 minutes from there. A beautiful, very old fashioned club that I love playing at but I am sure many forum contributors would despise it.

If all goes to plan, I am planning on joining there over the next couple of years but this is a feat easier said than done!
 
stevie_r said:
It means that last time this debate came up, you saw fit to lecture one and all on how you felt golf clubs should be run. Strangely though, as you admitted at the time, you weren't even a member of a club.
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Not sure I lectured anyone but you could be right.

And no, I am not a member of a golf club and have not been for the last 8 years. The chances of me joining one in the next 12 months are higher than they have been but still doubtful. What I don't understand though, is why you feel that this is relevant?

I have played golf for over 30 years and whilst I don't play as often as I would like, I do play at lots of different courses every year. I think I am qualified to have a valid opinion on this subject, perhaps more so given that I visit a variety of clubs and see best practice in action.
 
Snelly said:
Of course OTT, written with tongue firmly in cheek but unfortunately taken literally by some!


And yes, The West Sussex GC is the club I had in mind I suppose as I live about 10 minutes from there. A beautiful, very old fashioned club that I love playing at but I am sure many forum contributors would despise it.

If all goes to plan, I am planning on joining there over the next couple of years but this is a feat easier said than done!
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An excellent choice of club, even if it is stuck in the land that time forgot. Not sure I could handle the 2ball/4somes setup on a regular basis but used to love playing there with a society I used to be a member of.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
Jings, what a truly awful post.
If you really believe what you have written..shame on you, you have no place in golf.
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You may not agree..indeed it's obvious from your response you do not however they are facts and juniors being the future of golf is also a misnomer. Future of professional golf true but club golf no way. Check out the make up and new membership of most golf clubs and you will find the club is kept going by 35-60 year old 7 day members who pay full fee's. Juniors add little to a club in terms of finance true they do hang about all day at a club living the game but if they left they wouldn't be missed financially so why pander to them?
 
I think the key word here is "future" DB. You see in the "future" theses juniors will be in this 35-60 age group you so admire.
It stands to reason that when the time comes, if they had a hard time at one particuler club, then that club would be way down in consideration.
 
drawboy said:
You may not agree..indeed it's obvious from your response you do not however they are facts and juniors being the future of golf is also a misnomer. Future of professional golf true but club golf no way. Check out the make up and new membership of most golf clubs and you will find the club is kept going by 35-60 year old 7 day members who pay full fee's. Juniors add little to a club in terms of finance true they do hang about all day at a club living the game but if they left they wouldn't be missed financially so why pander to them?
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You are having a laugh surely. Who do you think will prop up the club in the future when these juniors are in that 30-60 category and you or I are in the seniors paying reduced fees, hanging about the club all day, living the game...??
 
Yes it is a somewhat surprising fact to some that juniors very quickly become adults.
At one of my clubs two ex juniors now sponsors a couple of club major events.
They were treated well by the members when juniors and stayed with the club even though they could easily have moved to a more exclusive one.
 
I find it very amusing that middle aged to elderly male golfers on committees try to lecture anyone on how to dress. As if you did a survey on who are the worst dressed sportsmen then male golfers would more than likely come top of the worse dressed list. Mmmmm, knee length white socks, moobs and a tucked in shirt containing a fat belly protuding over your belt buckle of your shorts in the summer, great look there....

If Gok Wan or Trinny and Susannah made a rule on dressing I'd pay more attention to it, as like them or not, they know what they are talking about when it comes to clothes and fashion. On the other most hand elderly male golfers do not.
 
Hacker Khan said:
I find it very amusing that middle aged to elderly male golfers on committees try to lecture anyone on how to dress. As if you did a survey on who are the worst dressed sportsmen then male golfers would more than likely come top of the worse dressed list. Mmmmm, knee length white socks, moobs and a tucked in shirt containing a fat belly protuding over your belt buckle of your shorts in the summer, great look there....
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So in one post or another that's juniors, the aged and the fatties sorted out. As anyone mentioned the guy with a limp, a wooden leg and a squint? Oh, and should baldies be made to wear hats?

Tolerance is alive and well in Britain and is mainly found in golf clubs... right made me giggle this thread has.
 
Hobbit said:
So in one post or another that's juniors, the aged and the fatties sorted out. As anyone mentioned the guy with a limp, a wooden leg and a squint? Oh, and should baldies be made to wear hats?

Tolerance is alive and well in Britain and is mainly found in golf clubs... right made me giggle this thread has.
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Don't forget the ladies, the working class, the upper class, the uneducated, the over educated, etc etc...
This thread is nothing if not all inclusive.
Brilliant !! Had a right good giggle me self Hobbit :rofl:
 
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