Golf club black tie functions

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Does your club have any 'black tie' functions? We have 2, the summer ball and the captain's dinner. Do you go? Chance to get dressed up and show off your trophy wife/girlfriend :D
 
Our annual dinner was black tie but last year was cancelled due to lack of interest and changed to a more informal event instead, we are not even trying to hold one this year.
 
We've at least 4, prize giving, member guest dinner and dinner dance. Tbh I don't bother, I live 20 miles away and I don't see the point in going if I have to drive and can't drink.
 
Attended our captains banquet a few weeks ago which is advertised as a black tie event. A few of us just wore a normal suit and tie. It’s not the Oscar’s.
 
louise_a said:
Our annual dinner was black tie but last year was cancelled due to lack of interest and changed to a more informal event instead, we are not even trying to hold one this year.
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What do you put the loss of interest down to, as presumably it was previously held and well-attended, but since the Covid golf boom it’s fallen by the wayside?
 
We have a number of club tie and jacket functions throughout the year, but no black tie functions —- we’re not that posh!
 
Think just New Year’s Eve for us and it’s rammed

Have a few jacket and tie events - Gents evenings , Captains Lunch and Presidents evening etc
 
IanM said:
Our club are trying to resurrect the pre covid level of social activity. Its slow progress!

I think the decline in "dressing up" is a sad one. You don't need it all the time but on once in a while it's good.
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Maybe if there wasn't a focus on dressing up they would be more popular?
 
Haven't been to a black tie event in years. Last golf one would be about 15yrs ago. I don't think my current club has one, if they did I wouldn't go. I don't use golf as my evening social life and dressing up as people call it is a big turn off for me. The chance of my wife wanting to go, scale of 0-10..........0 😆

Recent clubs have struggled with any form of evening social event, add in a formal dress code and there would be even less chance of hitting the numbers needed.
 
We have lots of informal functions but specifically interested in black tie ones. All our functions are well attended.
 
evemccc said:
What do you put the loss of interest down to, as presumably it was previously held and well-attended, but since the Covid golf boom it’s fallen by the wayside?
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It seems that younger members arent interesting in the formality of a black tie event, I also think that people have got out of attending functions at the club, numbers attending the new year's eve do were down and it previous years it was sold out. The quality of the catering may also have had a bearing, happily we have new caterers starting this week.
 
KenL said:
Maybe if there wasn't a focus on dressing up they would be more popular?
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I can only think of one that involves dressing up, its about getting folk back in the habit of the social side of the club.

Over the winter we had members give "monthly talks" that were well attended. We're lucky to have folk like Phil Price, Paul Mayo (ex Amateur champion) and Jim McKenzie (Head Greens Superintendent at Celtic Manor) among our members and they were really good.

As we get into Spring stuff will get ramped up further.
 
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