Is it a big issue at your club.......?

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Every course I go to these days seems to have signs up everywhere telling you you cant use your mobby anywhere on the course, bar, changing rooms etc etc.
My present club has a rule if you are playing a club match and you are spotted using your mobby, you forfeit your match.

What are the penalties for being a naughty boy/girl at you club and are they rigidly adhered to?
 
Never seen anyone penalised and most adhere to the rule. To be honest most people have no problem with taking the odd quick call if you are discrete and not yacking on for ages. If someone wants to check the call then most wait until the half way hut then nip behind that to make any call. I think most are actually glad of the time away from the phone so have no problem abiding by the rule.
 
Surely if you have to take a call on the course you shouldnt be out there.
I dont understand not being able to use one in the clubhouse or changing rooms as the games over.
I think some clubs take certain rules to the extreme.
 
No signs at our place Bob but I think the rule is that phones can only be used in the car park according to the website. Personally I wouldn't use a phone at any course until I was back in my car about to leave. I really don't see the need TBH.
 
I personally think its a crap rule. As long as you dont hold anyone up while taking valls or distract anyone else as per normal etiquette i dont see the problem. I work from home and sometimes play golf during the day. I often have to make a quick call. If anyone said anything to me I would tell them where to stick it if i had not distracted them. The world moves on and its a shame some golf clubs think its their right to live in the 1920's.

As long as you are not distracting anyone else or holding people up because of it then there is no problem.
 
Phones are all good as long as they are on silent or vibrate. Taking a quick call out on the course is no problem, providing it doesn't hinder the other players or slow the play up.

Alot of people have families and businesses etc. where 3-4 hours with no contact is just not possible.

This is probably why golf clubs are struggling so much as they are stuck in the stone age!

Ash!!
 
I have to agree with the feeling that if you have to keep checking for calls or making/receiving them then you shouldn't really be out there.
You have Voicemail don't you?
Leave a message and I'll pick it up when I'm finished.
If someone called me on the 7th to ask about booking or changing a driving lesson, I couldn't help them without my diary which will be in the car.
I want some time away from all that.
 
I'm with Imurg, if you're working, you shouldn't be playing golf and there is very rarely something that is so important that it can't wait until you've finished, plus if there is something so important that you're expecting a call and have to keep checking your phone, you have to ask yourself if you should be playing.

If they changed the rule then it would be mayhem on the golf course and people would be using them all the time.
 
We do have a rule and it is pretty much totally adhered to. Not because of the rule but more because people enjoy their golf and the banter.

If someone takes an occasional call, then no big drama as it isn't a problem at all at my club.
 
I can see both sides of the argument but it is not as simple as saying that if you are going to have to check your calls then you should not be on the course. With my job, a day off is not that clear cut. I do not go out on the course planning on getting work calls but they happen. There are times when things crop up at the office that need my comment and some of these calls cannot wait four hours for a response. The times when I have to take a call are probably only once or twice a month and the calls probably last less than a minute but they are important. If I can, as I described above, I wait until the half way hut and make a quick call whilst the rest of the group have a cup of tee. One of my group runs the local cricket team and he has to deal with the occasional text if people pull out of the afternoon game. If he cannot send the occasional text on the course what are the consquences? He has to make a choice between golf and cricket so either the club loses a member or the cricket club needs to find another unpaid volunteer to put in the hours that he does.

The position is simply not totally black and white so we appear to have a happy medium at my club. The ban is in place but there re no complaints for the occasional breach. I am sure that frequent and obstructive flaunting of the rule would result in action being taken but I think that the club is open minded enough to realise that a lot of members cannot totally divide their work and social time.
 
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Alot of people have families and businesses etc. where 3-4 hours with no contact is just not possible.

This is probably why golf clubs are struggling so much as they are stuck in the stone age!

Ash!!
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But I remember people on the golf course before mobile phones were invented :eek:
How did they mangage :eek:
smoke signals from the clubhouse? :)
 
I use mine as a gps so always have it with me. But the phone itself is always on silent then if anyone does ring it doesnt disturb anyone.
 
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Alot of people have families and businesses etc. where 3-4 hours with no contact is just not possible.

This is probably why golf clubs are struggling so much as they are stuck in the stone age!

Ash!!
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But I remember people on the golf course before mobile phones were invented :eek:
How did they mangage :eek:
smoke signals from the clubhouse? :)
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In those days work etc did not expect to be able to get hold of you on a day off. Now they do, simple. Jobs have changed, 24 hour permanent communication means that employers and customers or clients expect more. They reply 'sorry they are not in the office' used to mean that you called someone back later or the next day. Now that people have mobiles, texts and emails on smartphones, it is expected that an office can contact a member of staff at any time.
 
Sadly, it's the way of the world now.

It used to be that you would talk to someone on the phone if they were in their office and then dictate a letter and it might go in the post that day or the next, and you might get a reply 3 or 4 days later. Very few companies had Telex. All very civilised.

Then fax machines arrived and you could ignore a fax for a day and reply maybe the next day.

Then emails arrived which weren't so easy to ignore particularly if the sender requested a read confirmation. At the same time mobile phones became the thing to have and everyone had to be available 24/7.

Although useful, modern technology has in some ways made life much more difficult and stressful.

All this cr@p about I-this and I-that, smart phones, instant this and instant that does my head in. Turn the ****dy things off once in a while and get a life and some time to yourself.

Graveyards are full of people who thought they were indispensable.
 
Our club did a survey of members on various topics and the response regarding mobile phones was......

MOBILE PHONES

An over whelming 67% voted in favour of ‘no change’ to the existing rule.

With 'Allowed anywhere outside the clubhouse including the Patio' ranking second with only 20%



Says it all really :D
 
50p in the charity pot if it rings in theclubhouse, other than that its upto the individual to be responsible

Mine goes on silent in the car park, then goes in the bottom of the bag for the round
 
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