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Seen this mentioned this morning. How many have there been? How many played in them? Why is nobody organising them any more?

I assume they are just days out, kind of like a society day? Maybe it's a cost thing now, even a pretty average club can be well over £100 these days 😕

Does Golf Monthly get involved? If not, why not. They could be arranging them it would be good PR for them.
 
3 jabber said:
Seen this mentioned this morning. How many have there been? How many played in them? Why is nobody organising them any more?

I assume they are just days out, kind of like a society day? Maybe it's a cost thing now, even a pretty average club can be well over £100 these days 😕

Does Golf Monthly get involved? If not, why not. They could be arranging them it would be good PR for them.
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There is still a secret society, but you need to know the handshake.
 
3 jabber said:
I wasn't suggesting it's secret just asking why they don't happen anymore. Cost, general apathy, people don't want to mix?
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There were a few members who led the way with organising big meets, for several reasons they no longer post.

I think cost is a factor, but the demand is still there for meets. The forum seems to be less about golf these days and more about general chat.
 
There are still some forum meets

But the main ones don’t happen because of a few reasons

1. Cost
2. The people who organised them are no longer on the forum
3. Prob won’t be an appetite for them
 
Arrange them and they will come.

Quite a few people talk about meets as though they can not happen any more. They do but they also need an organiser. If you want to go to a meet and it is not happening, organise one yourself, don't wait for someone else to do it for you.

Plenty still happen, as others have mentioned. I've no doubt I'll be meeting other forumers in the NE during the summer and if one of our Yorkshire members organise one I would be down to that as well. Keep an eye out on the arrange a game section.

I think the mega meets don't particularly happen anymore due to the particular organisers no longer doing them, apart from the H4H one of course. Lots of mini meets happen though, and they are not restricted to who attends them.
 
Orikoru said:
Think a big factor is green fees at nice courses have pretty much trebled and you can't get a decent deal on them anymore. It's more common for people to do small localised meets with a couple of members they get on with than large organised ones.
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Add to that organising anything more than a few people is a real ball ache. What supposed to be an enjoyable day is often anything but.
 
Even mini-meets are hard to get off the ground.

I posted one up earlier this year at Charnwood Forest GC, very lukewarm interest so wasn't followed through.
RichA recently posted asking if anyone was interested in playing in the East Midlands area, ended up just him and me.

I know that these were short notice and not at top 100 courses and I'm probably considered a bit of an oddball to be avoided by many on the forum but even so the response was disappointing. The use of old clubs wasn't a requirement and submitting cards to WHS would have been optional.
 
The two biggest organisers of Meets when i joined were John Findley and the Craw. that was 2009 ish, my first a big meet was arranged by Golf Monthly at Castle Stuart when it opened. we played Spey Valley, Castle Stuart and Nairn, then Smiffy organised a game at Boat of Garten on the monday. we used to have a Ryder cup style meet as Goswick, Scotland Vs England where the legendary Goswick 8 were the talk for years to come. Crawford did some great stuff annual meets at Macrihanish. we had meets at Blairgowrie, Dundonauld, Glasgow Gails and Trump Aberdeen a few times. alas those guys are long gone
 
Crow said:
Even mini-meets are hard to get off the ground.

I posted one up earlier this year at Charnwood Forest GC, very lukewarm interest so wasn't followed through.
RichA recently posted asking if anyone was interested in playing in the East Midlands area, ended up just him and me.

I know that these were short notice and not at top 100 courses and I'm probably considered a bit of an oddball to be avoided by many on the forum but even so the response was disappointing. The use of old clubs wasn't a requirement and submitting cards to WHS would have been optional.
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Did you not keep in touch with Bamberdele? 😛 Sometimes it's just location-dependent - I would love to meet you guys and I always keep an eye on your meet threads, but generally it's a two-hour drive for me and mid-week so I can't make it work unfortunately.

Bazz said:
Threads turn into arguments within a few posts, some wouldn't make it off the first tee without it kicking off.
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Real life is completely different to the internet. There's a few who have hammered me on here despite being nice as pie when I met them at a H4H meet. I don't think there's anyone on here I'd refuse to play a round with.
 
Crow said:
Even mini-meets are hard to get off the ground.

I posted one up earlier this year at Charnwood Forest GC, very lukewarm interest so wasn't followed through.
RichA recently posted asking if anyone was interested in playing in the East Midlands area, ended up just him and me.

I know that these were short notice and not at top 100 courses and I'm probably considered a bit of an oddball to be avoided by many on the forum but even so the response was disappointing. The use of old clubs wasn't a requirement and submitting cards to WHS would have been optional.
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Having played a few rounds with you at various courses I’m not sure there is a single reason to avoid playing golf with you
 
hambugerpete said:
Add to that organising anything more than a few people is a real ball ache. What supposed to be an enjoyable day is often anything but.
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Totally agree.

I’ve organised golf trips for as few as 8 and it can be a nightmare. Late payers, late drop outs, people not wanting to play at such and such a course, not wanting to eat such and such food of an evening.

Multiply that two, three or four times, and in some cases several times over, and I can only imagine the logistics are a real headache.

I admire anyone who wants to organise a significant meet. I really wouldn’t want the aggravation.
 
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