Lollfred
Head Pro
a bottle or two of whisky / brandy on the bar would of done the trick surely ?
Hole in one?
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Tommo21
Tour Winner
You must be on it early then Mike.....
dufferman
Journeyman Pro
I think that must be where things have changed - way back when, I image the whole clubhouse wasn't full of strangers so it was more like buying a round for your pals than emptying your overdraft for a bunch of guys and gals you'll never see again!!
GreiginFife
Money List Winner
I think at one point that would be the case DM. But now, with clubs needing larger member bases to stay afloat the chance that you could know everyone is slim. My club has c.800 members, that's a lot of people to know and the possibility of everyone you know being there on a specific day is slim to feck all.
On a comp day it gets mental busy, last comp at my place had 130 entrants, think I knew about 30 of them.
MadAdey
Money List Winner
Hole in one insurance is covered by my memebership. If you get one then they put a bottle of whisky on the bar to help yourself with a piece of card saying who and where you got it.
Stuey01
Journeyman Pro
I think the clubs that will sell you a bottle of whisky or brandy etc for cost have got the right idea. That way the tradition stays, and you get to celebrate your achievement (luck) without fear of bankruptcy or skulking off to the car park.
Rooter
Money List Winner
HOI insurance only covers you in competitive golf.
mikeb4
Head Pro
when i got my first hole in one in june, my club told me i had to chose a bottle of spirits and the club covered the costs, thankfully !
I love the history and traditions of the game but agree with most on here that this is a daft one - fair enough to buy a round for your playing partners or the bottle of whisky at the jump option but poke it buying for complete strangers or worse still blerts you can't abide
8 of us are playing in an end of issue big Team Open at Fulwell GC tomorrow - I can just see an hole in one coming on
Val
Ryder Cup Winner
Now heres a thing, my club gives ever member an insurance policy of sorts covering public liability on the course and various othe rbits and pieces including £75 towards a hole in one bar bill.
My club always has had the policy of a bottle on the bar rather than a drink for everyone, now anyone getting one spends £75 on spirits and claims it back.
Costs nothing other than £2 or so on their subs.
My club always has had the policy of a bottle on the bar rather than a drink for everyone, now anyone getting one spends £75 on spirits and claims it back.
Costs nothing other than £2 or so on their subs.
Paul_Stewart
Tour Rookie
Pain heals
Chicks dig scars
Glory lives forever
Buy the drinks and revel in your achievement
Chicks dig scars
Glory lives forever
Buy the drinks and revel in your achievement
Rooter
Money List Winner
Should read "sit back with free drinks from your buddies and revel in your achievement"
Its like teh whole thing you get in offices these days where YOU have to bring in cakes for YOUR birthday! whats that about??!!
Aztecs27
Money List Winner
Yes! Glad someone else thinks this too. Absolutely ridiculous!
Tiger
Money List Winner
Thanks a bundle Mike, and there was me thinking what a cracking thread for my next 'Meet the Forum' submission
Glad to see it wasn't just me :rofl:
GB72
Money List Winner
Both the clubs that I have been members of recently have taken a sensible approach. At Stoke you paid £2.00 a year to cover £75 of your bar bill for a hole in one (never that many in the club house so would more than cover). At Belton you can pick a bottle of spirits then nip off to the supermarket to replace it. Either way keeps the tradition going and saves the wallett.
Like many have said, I cannot afford and nor would I want to spend a few hundred quid on drinks for complete strangers.
Like many have said, I cannot afford and nor would I want to spend a few hundred quid on drinks for complete strangers.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
We have a Hole-in-One crystal decanter that sit's on it's wooden plinth with plates for engraving the names of HIOers. You get a HIO - you pay for a bottle of whisky to fill the decanter and it sits on the bar with a load of nice spirits glasses and a wee notice telling of the lucky chap(pess) - help yourself.
pokerjoke
Money List Winner
Im thinking everytime my shot is aiming towards the flag "please dont go in".
When you got 4 kids and a mortgage i can think of better ways to spend my money.
When you got 4 kids and a mortgage i can think of better ways to spend my money.
S
Snelly
Guest
You are 100% wrong and so are all the other posters responding in the same vein.
If you get a hole in one, buy a bottle of whisky and give everyone a dram. Or two or three bottles even. It is hardly going to break the bank. In the grand scheme of things, relative to what you are going to earn and spend in your life, it is a pittance. A once (more if you are lucky) in a lifetime expense that should be borne with a smile on your face.
And by coincidence, I was very close to a hole in one last Friday and I did not for a nanosecond wish that my ball would miss. It would have been a brilliant moment for me and I would have gladly bought a couple of bottles of scotch for those in the bar.
It is an excellent tradition and of course it should stay. If you disagree then you are probably too tight to consider buying a round. So what if they are all strangers? So what if it is at a big day out? Enjoy the moment and the kudos that your feat and subsequent generosity brings.
I cannot believe that any sane golfer would think otherwise. I cannot abide avarice - it is a serious character flaw for those afflicted with it.
StrangelyBrown
Tour Winner
You must earn a lot of money.
Wouldn't agree with buying a bottle.
Loads of folk hate whisky,likewise gin therefore you are only buying for those with that preferance.
Outdated tradition,nothing more,nothing less.
Loads of folk hate whisky,likewise gin therefore you are only buying for those with that preferance.
Outdated tradition,nothing more,nothing less.
