Golf bag / club security at the course?

[Captain_Black]

After a round or a comp, If you go in the bar for a meal / drink etc, how do you secure your clubs?

I intend to play in a few comps home & away this year, which will involve socialising in the bar afterwards & I am a bit concerned about the security of my clubs.
My car has an immobiliser, but no alarm, it is also an estate car so it is impossible to lock them out of sight, I know that golfers in general are an honest bunch, but we do get rather a lot of local Neanderthals from the council estate wandering around the place.

Is the answer to fit a car alarm? or I did wonder about securing some kind of lockable storage container in the car?

Any thoughts?

 

[IanLeeds]

I have a 7 seater so can see in boot, I just dump clubs in the car and off we go in to club!! We are in the middle of council estate surrounded by some woods, so if mine are safe I am sure yours will be!

 

[Oddsocks]

mine get loacked in the boot of the car, an the car locking system has dead loacks as standard.. never ever leave my clubs outside the clubhouse...

 

[bluewolf]

The boot of the car.. Its an old Nissan X Trail. Deadlocks, alarm, 18 layers of cr*p...Plus, I had the forethought to join a club with no scroaty estates nearby .. In a carpark full of Mercs and Beemers, nobody breaks into the Nissan...

 

[CMAC]

Cpt Black, throw an old blanket over the clubs in the back, unlikely they'll break in to chance finding clubs, unless it's the Mysterons :smirk:

 

[HomerJSimpson]

It depends. If i'm gagging for a drink I leave them in front of the patio in sight of the 19th (at my club) or lock them straight in my locker and take the GK battery off and put that in there too which makes it more or less useless.

At an away club its much harder for me as we're a one car family so its unfair to expect HID to give it up and be left unable to go anywhere. I try and leave it in a friend or team mates car if possible or in view. Some places have vistiors lockers where you put a £1 coin in (bit like the old swimming pool lockers) and they usually take a bag and I'll use thise and take my chance with the empty GK

 

[richart]

Always lock mine in the boot as it is a rough area where I play ! Same as bluewolf, my car is so old nobody would bother to break into it. Also it is a Alfa so it probably wouldn't start if a thief tried to steal it. My clubs are actually worth more than my car.

 

[granters]

I just get the mrs to stand next to them and growl if any undesirables approach

 

[thecraw]

I always just leave mine outside the clubhouse.

Its Bridge of Weir after all, even the neds drive BMW's!

 

[Evesdad]

Put mine in the boot but my club is also in the middle of nowhere so could prob leave them outside the pro shop.

 

[goldenbare]

I have a 7 seater so can see in boot, I just dump clubs in the car and off we go in to club!! We are in the middle of council estate surrounded by some woods, so if mine are safe I am sure yours will be!

Ian, I wouldn't be so sure of this, I think that private clubs are targetted by pro criminals much more than local muni type courses. This is certainly from cases I have heard of in my locality

I do love the way some bags have a little pocket marked "valuables".....a bit of a give away for the passing tea leaf!

 

[DavidO]

If I have the car, I leave them there! Otherwise, I tuck them round the corner in the locker room!

 

[Captain_Black]

Mmm.
It just makes me wonder, in tough times (like now) why people think it's safe to leave say £1000 worth of golf clubs in plain view in a car (maybe not so bad if they are locked in the boot?)

How many people would leave a £1000 laptop in their car in plain view?

It would take maybe 10 seconds for a thief to smash a window & have a £1000 worth of gear away (maybe more?) & then flog it on E-Bay.

Food for thought?

 

[thecraw]

Mmm.
It just makes me wonder, in tough times (like now) why people think it's safe to leave say £1000 worth of golf clubs in plain view in a car (maybe not so bad if they are locked in the boot?)

How many people would leave a £1000 laptop in their car in plain view?

It would take maybe 10 seconds for a thief to smash a window & have a £1000 worth of gear away (maybe more?) & then flog it on E-Bay.

Food for thought?

Go compare,
Go compare.

 

[Val]

Boot of the car for me, I was at an outing back in Oct and there was 2 different parties there, all clubs were pretty much left in the patio untill dark hours and both parties were strangers to one another, as far as I'm aware no ones gear got touched.

Trusting lot, mines went in the locker room which in hindsight gave a thief more chance to steal

 

[Imurg]

As we're fairly quiet during the week we leave ours outside the clubhouse while we have our bevvy and snack. They're in full view of the staff and we don't get many marauders during daylight hours.
At an away course they go straight in the boot of the car.

 

[Iaing]

At my home club my clubs go in my locker and the trolley goes in the trolley shed.

Away from home, all the gear goes in the car boot.

I've never had any clubs nicked but I once had my ball pocket rifled at an away course. Before I went out to play...b******s!!

 

[daymond]

In the boot. A few years ago a visitor had his bag taken, he left it outside the pro shop. To add to his woes the keys to his BMW were in the bag. He had to wait a long time for BMW to come and get it sorted. We are in a quiet rural area so it's not just urban locations that are vulnerable.
If you think about it it's about the easiest place for low life to nick valuable items.

 

[connor]

mine go in the boot of the car. with an alarm immobilsor and a tracker i feel pretty confident to leave things there. failing that they are insured anyway

 

[chrisd]

Always straight into the boot. Even a single club lost, is expensive and possibly irreplaceable.



Chris