KenL
Tour Rookie
A comp 6 days a week?
We have about 30 in a year.
We have about 30 in a year.
I was listening to an Australian golf podcast and clubs there have a comp pretty much every day by all accounts. The host was bemoaning the fact that this meant that there was less match play (and other formats) than in the UK. Not heard of it over here as much though. We average about 1 a week (alternately midweek and weekend).A comp 6 days a week?
We have about 30 in a year.
Makes it interesting to get a tee time at times.800 members....!!
Wow
800 members....!!
Wow
I don't struggle. The only tee times that fly off are the early ones on a Saturday morning (7am till 11am) probably like most places. If you don't book them the instance the sheet goes live and want to play early then your group will be splitting up and hoping single slots appear. Any other time I've never had an issue.Makes it interesting to get a tee time at times.
It's probably too many in reality but it may be necessary for financial purposes?
Just on this…I hear that my club’s waiting list is growing…it was 100 earlier this year. Club is considering how we manage that waiting list as we are not a recognised ‘prestige’ club…just a darned good members club with a splendid track. We don’t want to lose the waiting list (or Academy members frustrated at not being able to transfer to full membership) due to low turnover of members (last renewal the turnover was insignificant). One option is to increase membership by 50. It’s a good problem to have, but a problem nonetheless.I reckon entries are down maybe 10-15% compared to last year but maybe 20% up on 2019....read into that what you will, but my take is that the bubble caused by golfers being attracted to the sport when other sports shut down during covid has, not burst, but simply deflated a little bit.
Just on this…I hear that my club’s waiting list is growing…it was 100 earlier this year. Club is considering how we manage that waiting list as we are not a recognised ‘prestige’ club…just a darned good members club with a splendid track. We don’t want to lose the waiting list (or Academy members frustrated at not being able to transfer to full membership) due to low turnover of members (last renewal the turnover was insignificant). One option is to increase membership by 50. It’s a good problem to have, but a problem nonetheless.
Club of course looking at stats the booking system gives on medals, other comps and casual play. As an aside that’s something it couldnt do pre-pandemic for casual play as we didn’t book times for casual play.
Just on this…I hear that my club’s waiting list is growing…it was 100 earlier this year. Club is considering how we manage that waiting list as we are not a recognised ‘prestige’ club…just a darned good members club with a splendid track. We don’t want to lose the waiting list (or Academy members frustrated at not being able to transfer to full membership) due to low turnover of members (last renewal the turnover was insignificant). One option is to increase membership by 50. It’s a good problem to have, but a problem nonetheless.
Club of course looking at stats the booking system gives on medals, other comps and casual play. As an aside that’s something it couldnt do pre-pandemic for casual play as we didn’t book times for casual play.
We have 635 full members, and other than Sat and Sun mornings to about 1pm, I can get a tee time virtually whenever I want. Checking just now the 1st tee is basically completely unbooked after 2:30 for today (even with two societies playing) and also after 3pm over weekend. Also if I wanted to play earlier than 3pm there look to be 10-12 available tee times each day. It seems that a lot of our members are either retired or can play Mon-Fri and, other than weekend comps, choose to do so.A bit off topic but... how does the full capacity membership equate when compared to tee time occupancy?
i.e are there next to no tee times available or only those allocated for visitors etc are free or are there plenty tee times unused on various days (talking about a fair weather week as opposed to a week in mid-winter)
We have 635 full members, and other than Sat and Sun mornings to about 1pm, I can get a tee time virtually whenever I want. Checking just now the 1st tee is basically completely unbooked after 2:30 for today (even with two societies playing) and also over weekend. Also if I wanted to play earlier than 2pm there look to be 10-12 available tee times each day. It seems that a lot of our members are either retired or can play Mon-Fri and, other than weekend comps, choose to do so.
That’s what the thinking will be.I guess that means the club certainly has the tee capacity to increase the membership numbers if they wanted to (a bit like overselling seats on planes knowing some wont get used i guess)