Golf snobs

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Just athought.

Have you come across golf snobs at your club or wherever you play?

My club has over 100 years of history and is considered to be one of the "better quality courses" in the area.
However, the vast majority of the members are decent, down to earth people from al walks of life.

Don't get me wrong, there are a few "old farts" who think they own the club because they have "played there for many years."

There are also a few lower handicap players who look at other members as if they are not wothy of lacing up their shoes, but on the whole the membership is very friendly.
I have heard horrific tales from other clubs such as "Colonal Baggshot" marching down the fairway to berate a member because he doesn't have his shirt fully tucked in.

Unfriendly groups who refuse to offer a friendly "hello" to a nervous new member standing alone on the 1st tee, preferring to completely ignore them and play on without any hint of an invitation to play along.
Almost every lone golfer I have seen on the 1st tee at my club has been offered the chance to join in.

I feel that nowadays the image of golf as being an elitist sport for the upper classes has all but disappeared, though I do know this view is still maintained by many people around the country. :mad:
 
By far and away the biggest golf snob I ever (ever) met was my oldest brother Clive.
Was a member of the Nevill in Tunbridge Wells, got down to about 9 handicap and would not play with anybody who had a higher handicap than about 14.
Total and utter knob.
He moved down the West Country about 15 years ago and if I never see him again it will be too soon
 
Plenty of old fuds at my course who cant quite grasp the fact that they have let in working class plebs like me now!

You know the ones, cant go into the bar, sorry the lounge without having put there jacket and tie on first, ensure that they have spare trousers with them in case their checkered slacks are muddied. Talk about the demise of the club since the smokers room was done away with.
 
My club is nearly 200 years old and its full of them. When i first joined i played in one of the medals with this older guy ,on the first tee he asked me how long i'd been in the club,after my reply the only words he spoke in a half baked toff accent were bloody new members cant get a game cause of you. My reply was short and sweet and cant be printed on a "family forum" :D.
The thing at our club is that the ordinary working man keeps it going ,in the bar and the pro shop where as the would be snob thinks he keeps it going by buying a pot of tea in 1985.
 
By far and away the biggest golf snob I ever (ever) met was my oldest brother Clive.
Was a member of the Nevill in Tunbridge Wells, got down to about 9 handicap and would not play with anybody who had a higher handicap than about 14.
Total and utter knob.
He moved down the West Country about 15 years ago and if I never see him again it will be too soon
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Bloody hell smiffy he could be at my club i better watch out
 
Sorry Smiffy but I just noticed your handicap is 12.2, I don't play with guys with a handicap of 12.0 or above, looks as though it wont be me and you at Walton Heath!
 
I feel quite fortunate that I have never come across a golf snob. Being a member of a small club has the advantage that everyone knows each other and most of our competitions are done using a random draw so over the course of the season you play with everyone. Also we have no dress code or need to book any tee times so there is no oppurtunity for folk to start laying down the law.
 
I would add a reply if it was not beneath me to communicate with your sort.
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Excellent!! :D :D :D

Golf snobbery is not something i've come across too often, I can only remember 2 counts and, to be honest, I never took a blind bit of notice either time.

Both times the people having a go were about 450 years old and looking every day of it! lol
 
Oh Yes my club is overun with them as well. A lot of the time I think I am entering a retirement home social club where to become a member you have to dress from a bygone age and speak with a gob full of marbles.

I have been asked on anumber of occasions "Do you stay in the village ?" When I reply in the affirmative I am then asked "Oh but easter or wester". Apparently there is a border crossing and if you don't stay in wester (home to the Sailing, Tennis and Bowling Clubs) you are'nt worth speaking to. No loss then IMO.

However with the recession and dwindling membership, the balance is now being reversed and we even have a large membership from God Forbid "Outside the Village!
 
There was one I was invited to in Scotland(Nr glasgow and I shall say no more) Cravat city in the bar, all sporting club jackets (nothing wrong with that but when its a snob issue becomes part of the big picture) and so many speaking snob english, not a scottish accent in sight.

Having lived up there for several years finding snobs in Scotland I thought almost impossible, till I went to this club.
It was a private club admittedly but was one I hope never to return to. So much of their time spent being irritating ***** rather than playing golf and not good company to play a round with.
 
Just as this forum has been accused of having its cliques then I'm afraid my club has too. We have a senior group that play most Tuesday and Thursdays and woebetide if you're waiting on the tee when they come out. Always lots of "don't people work", "who's this" and "it's going to be a long round" (even though you invariably have a lower handicap and can physically move quicker). Never a chance of being let through.

On the other hand the vast majority of the club is as friendly as possible to visitors and new members. Its never hard for a newbie to get a game. My reaction, hard as it is, is that these oldies won't be around forever and that the next generation (our current 50+) seem to have a much more tolerant attitude.
 
I admit to being a partial golf snob. I like to try to look nice on the course, would never dream of playing in jeans or shorts and to be honest one thing I do not like is swearing in the clubhouse, especially out loud across the whole room, you know like 'eh smudger what was that load of effing s**t I saw you play on the whatever hole'. Don't get me wrong I swear with the best of them at work it's just that I was brought up to think there was a time and place for bad language, certainly never in front of a woman, or someone I have just being introduced to and for me not in the clubhouse. I do not think it's asking too much for a little bit of restraint now and then.If that makes me a snob then in this case the cap fits so i'll gladly wear it as long as it matches my jumper.
 
I admit to being a partial golf snob. I like to try to look nice on the course, would never dream of playing in jeans or shorts and to be honest one thing I do not like is swearing in the clubhouse, especially out loud across the whole room, you know like 'eh smudger what was that load of effing s**t I saw you play on the whatever hole'. Don't get me wrong I swear with the best of them at work it's just that I was brought up to think there was a time and place for bad language, certainly never in front of a woman, or someone I have just being introduced to and for me not in the clubhouse. I do not think it's asking too much for a little bit of restraint now and then.If that makes me a snob then in this case the cap fits so i'll gladly wear it as long as it matches my jumper.
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Amen to that drawboy, couldn't agree more mate. ;)
 
Not so much in my club, what I really hate is people wearing their waterproofs (jacket/trousers) in the club house. Last year I was at 2 differnet courses and seen the bar staff asking people to take their waterproof jackets off. Do these people think that the club dosent have heating?
 
I'm not sure how many snobs I have come accross, but I certainly came accross many mildly frustrating golfers holding up quicker groups, telling people very loudly how to drop the ball properley from shoulder height not chest height, telling me not to drink a can of coke on the course, because it looked bad???
I could go on, but they are thankfully few and far between, and are always good for a laugh!!!
 
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