Killing rollups has hurt golf

[Voyager EMH]

We went to full online booking only during Covid.
Sometime later a return to turn-up-and-queue was talked about.
We had a vote. It was fairly obvious that full booking had the greatest support.



"Groups" seem to manage OK with organising themselves.
I see no evidence whatsoever with social golf in all its forms being "killed" or even mildly injured.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

If anything, Covid confirmed perceptions about it and led to tee bookings being removed, as everything was getting booked within minutes. But it's pointless to keep this conversation going, as our club is happy with our current system anyway.

Yeah.. my club went to tee-time booking around the time I joined because it was the start of Covid and that was mandated as I recall. But as soon as they were able to, they returned to the 'turn up and put your name down' approach, as that was what the majority of members wanted. At the time it was three-tee start, nowadays it's a two-tee start, which I actually prefer. If the club was massively busy it might be a problem, but I'm happy with the system as it is because I never seem to have a problem getting out pretty quickly. We know that there are roll-ups at 8:00 and 8:30 on Saturdays so we just work around them if we're not joining them - can play at 7:45, 8:25 ish or just before 9am. Usually don't have to wait more than 10 minutes.

Most of the clubs were we are kept tee bookings

But it will be down to what each clubs members wanted

 

[KenL]

No script to book the times

We just organise ourselves to book when it opens

And if a golf course is close to houses etc then the greenstaff have to worry about noise levels

Most of our gk equipment these days is electric. That helps.

 

[WorldHandicapSystem]

Why do groups of seniors need to play on one big group? Are they worried some of them might get lost?

To me this just feels like some people feel entitled to play at their time.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Why do groups of seniors need to play on one big group? Are they worried some of them might get lost?

To me this just feels like some people feel entitled to play at their time.

Why do you assume it's seniors?

 

[WorldHandicapSystem]

Why do you assume it's seniors?

They were mentioned earlier. I’ve never seen any other age group care about roll ups and playing together.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

They were mentioned earlier. I’ve never seen any other age group care about roll ups and playing together.

Come to mine then. The largeish one on a Saturday morning has ages 18 to 70. with the majority not being retired and still working.

 

[rulie]

Why do you assume it's seniors?

Why do groups of seniors need to play on one big group? Are they worried some of them might get lost?

To me this just feels like some people feel entitled to play at their time.

At our club it's the 25-40 year old guys that want to play together so they can ride carts, drink beer, listen to music, smoke (whatever) and play on their phones.

 

[chellie]

At our club it's the 25-40 year old guys that want to play together so they can ride carts, drink beer, listen to music, smoke (whatever) and play on their phones.

That sounds horrendous

 

[KenL]

At our club it's the 25-40 year old guys that want to play together so they can ride carts, drink beer, listen to music, smoke (whatever) and play on their phones.

Where is that? One to avoid!

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Where is that? One to avoid!

Canada. The whole music and beer combo seems to be a N. American thing.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

They were mentioned earlier. I’ve never seen any other age group care about roll ups and playing together.

We have multiple swindles at the club with a wide range of ages

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

We went to full online booking only during Covid.
Sometime later a return to turn-up-and-queue was talked about.
We had a vote. It was fairly obvious that full booking had the greatest support.

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"Groups" seem to manage OK with organising themselves.
I see no evidence whatsoever with social golf in all its forms being "killed" or even mildly injured.

Pretty much exactly what happened at my place re Covid and a vote to keep or not. And likewise my own and what I gather from others experience of booking since.

We have four rollups with allocated times through the week. There is some push-back and complaints from a few members about these…but the main gripe was always about the Saturday late morning rollup (it’s a genuinely ‘open to all’ rollup) over the ‘close season’ when golf playing time is restricted by light.

As a result that rollup moved a couple of years back to having to book and take its chances just as everyone else….its allocated batch of tee time only applies in summer - and it manages to sort itself over winter. In summer that rollup has to notify the club on Tuesday about how many tee times are required for the coming Saturday, and the club then releases tee times not required for anyone to book. This is understood by all members.