I use the bar for a coffee or 2 before I play and sometimes for a soft drink afterwards. Problem is, as the course is on the A1, having a beer is out of the question
I thought this was a question for my good lady wife. I would hope her reply would be 'often and with gusto'!!
However my clubhouse is used for a wee snorter when we come back in after a midweek game but on a Saturday morning, pre comp, we tend to meet for a bite - bacon roll, bacon and egg roll or a full Scottish breakfast plus cups of coffee!!
This means that the dining room is busy so the 'craic' starts very early with hopes of things to come being aired, once the golf shoes are on. After the round, due to this 'craic' the club is busy, lots of soft drinks and some less soft and many heads hung in shame!
Dependant on the length of time for the round and the football on the box at the club, another 'small bite' could also be the order of the day before going home.
The clubhouse is full of golfers, very friendly but always, always short of praise for any good scores coming in. A good score is always the result of luck, lightning striking, pigs flying or a shortsighted card marker.
Spent many years in the clubs where 'Hard luck,old boy' 'If I had just turned my hands over the top''The green keeper has put the pins in a very difficult place today' was polite for 'Beat him out in the country' 'He sliced everything into the rough and we had to spend ages searching for his ball' and 'His putting was crap'
Prefer where I am as they favour the latter descriptions and it is often played to an audience and always with a retort from someone of 'You think that was bad.....'