How important is golf to you?

[wackygolfer]

I started a new job a fortnight ago which is going well. I work part time behind the bar at the golf club and this week was arranging my hours with my non playing boss. We were trying to fit my hours around my golf commitments and she asked me if golf was that important to me.

I never thought golf was that important after having my daughter, being ill and not playing for 12 years but I found myself saying it was a huge part of my life now.

The fact that my golf comes before work is probably a bit worrying. Have you ever let your golf come before something really important? work? relationships? etc.

 

[USER1999]

NO, and I wouldn't let it spoil a relationship. Work though, that's another thing. I wouldn't take a job that interfered with my golf.

A bit daft of a golf club employer to ask if golf is important, that is why the club continues to exist.

 

[HTL]

Golf over relationship or family - no 99% of the time.

Golf over work - Hell yes.

 

[medwayjon]

Golf comes second behind family and work.

I simply cant afford to prioritise golf over work as being self-employed, it has a direct effect on my income.

 

[bobmac]

Tough question for me to answer Vicky as Jan is a golfer and work is golf, so I guess golf is quite important to me.
P.S. I've just come back from a wee mini break of 3 days...................playing golf

 

[Macster]

Golf is important to me these days, as its my main activity away from work, and now my kids are older, I can find more time for it.

However, I have to be disciplined, as I work from home, for myself, and therefore could nip down to the club or practise ground whenever the feeling takes me.
But, I dont, work time is work time, and the best I may do is sneak away at 4.30pm perhaps.

 

[TonyN]

I know nothing but golf! My first born will have the middle name 'birdie' and girlfriend now knows the only way to engage in conversation is to start a sentance with, 'You know at the golf club'.....' do you like chips and sausage, is that what I should do for your dinner'?

 

[Robobum]

Family 100% of the time, then work........but it doesn't do any harm to pinch a few hours here and there for a little knock

 

[CliveW]

Have you ever let your golf come before something really important? work? relationships? etc.

Work?.... Really important? ....Don't think so!

 

[CliveW]

Golf comes second behind family and work.

Surely that is third then?

 

[Cernunnos]

Golf is important & will always find a way of weaving it into & between work & family.

All said & done family comes first, no matter what my love of golf. And golf is all important.

There is an old saying to do with a bad day on the golf course is always being better than a good day at work. Well, maybe not entirely true, but nearly true.

When the sun is out & I am working days I can catch a glimps of the day outside & wish to be walking the fairways & pacing the greens. And this can indeed happen at a good day at work as well as a bad one. This actually can make work barable even on a bad day, looking forward to my next visit to the field of golf.

I think, if I was choosing a job or a new home, golf will always now be a consideration, in choosing a good course to be near. Why else whould I be wishing for a new job on the coast near a nice course, apart from missing being near the coast. Which is true enough.

If only I could get a reasonably well paid Job Down closer to Devon, where my Parent have retired to.

I said Family was important to me.

 

[forefortheday]

Work is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay down my list of priorities.

Golf is a distant second to family though

 

[OldWindy]

Family, golf then work.

I put work first for almost 10 years - not good.

 

[Parmo]

Family first always, though the wife doesn’t see it like that at times, but golf just isnt a sport it’s a scene as well, most partake in the clubs running or social side besides the game. I love golf and I love the scene, but I have never seen so many single men involved in one sport as I have with golf, I know many whos marrages have failed, maybe not all golf related but many are, to me my family need to be number 1 as I don't want to end up spending more time in the clubhouse than the course as I have seen in my short time around the game.

 

[Twire]

Family, work then golf. I would like to swap the work and golf around, but unfortunatly work is a means to an end. (I have been persuaded to have two mornings off next week to play though )

I will say though, golf helps keep my sanity, and it used to be "my" time until HID started last year. I'm a real grump if I don't get my weekend fix of golf.

 

[mono217]

Golf is not a matter of life or death



its much more important than that

 

[Cernunnos]

Work is merely a way of affording to enjoy family life & golf, so Work is important for that reason, but I do not love work. I wish I could say I do love the work i do, but I don't, its merely a means to an end. But it is important, very important. And only by offering our best, can we enjoy what we love to enjoy.

I love family first & I love playing golf, as much as I love many other pastimes I have, though golf does come before most things.

I think for many of us on here Golf is our religion & our faith.

 

[KeefG]

Family is way out in front, then golf and then work a very very distant 3rd.

However, in my job i'm an area manager, all the other area managers in our region enjoy their golf, my boss enjoys his golf, my bosses boss enjoys his golf, the guy who supervises for me enjoys his golf as do a lot of lads who work for me.....we play a lot of golf when we ought not to

 

[vig]

Unfortunately I need work to fund my passion but it is neck and neck between golf & family at the moment for the No1 spot with work a distant 4th. There's got to be something more important to get third but can't think of it yet.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Not having kids and arguably the most understanding wife on here golf comes 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. My wife realises how important it is to me and she has her own interests (she is an amazing gardener) and so we do our own things and have quality times in the evenings.

I will work out my flexi days and annual leave around golf and any chance to sneak out early is taken without any hesitation