Naybrains
Tour Rookie
It's potentially even more difficult than you say, the conditions in the winter change by the minute. the course can be fine one minute then, as the sun goes down, turn really cold and icy the next. It can be dry then a rain storm sees it under water. It is impracticable to have a up to the minute, ongoing, safety assessments and that is why golfers have to take some personal responsibility. He said it was frosty and a grown up would have to assume that if its cold enough for frost then its going to be very likely there will be ice about. I can't see for the life of me why he thinks that someone else is responsible for advising him of something that would be patently obvious, it is, after all, a hazard of winter golf - he knows that and if he wasn't willing to accept the risk then he shouldn't have played!
There are clearly risks attached to everything that you do in life and I readily accept that if someone is negligent and it causes injury then compensation is rightly awarded but in this case Colin, who I dont thinks has responded to answer the foot wear question as yet, seems to ignore the fact that the conditions were clearly poor and that he should have been more vigilant and maybe sue the two members who he was with for taking him out in such conditions!
Wonderfully put Chris, Exactly how I see it.