Members complaining

GM, I wrongly assumed was Golf Monthly. Silly old me.

Anyway, now I'm on the same wavelength, if I have a complaint or something to say I will say so. Its what any member has the right to do.


I still can't see what your issue is with somone complaining. You have come on here and done the exact same thing as what annoyed you at the weekend!
 
You get them in all walks of life...

For example at work the other week a female colleague of mine said "I hate this job", I said she would be better looking for another one then, to which she replied "I hate interviews"!

She "hates" a lot of things.
 
forefortheday said:
You get them in all walks of life...

For example at work the other week a female colleague of mine said "I hate this job", I said she would be better looking for another one then, to which she replied "I hate interviews"!

She "hates" a lot of things.
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Yep - the only time they're happy is when they're really unhappy about something!

I guess moaning seems a negative waste of effort whereas complaining (where justified) hopefully gets some action or reaction.
 
thecraw said:
GM, I wrongly assumed was Golf Monthly. Silly old me.

Anyway, now I'm on the same wavelength, if I have a complaint or something to say I will say so. Its what any member has the right to do.


I still can't see what your issue is with somone complaining. You have come on here and done the exact same thing as what annoyed you at the weekend!
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Yes you're correct, but as I previously said "Yeap hands up, didnt actually realise I was moaning myself until I read through my post :rolleyes: "

So I suppose that would make me just as bad as the moaners at my club, but then I wouldnt stoop as low as writting a letter of complaint to my club and informing them the pro was 30 minutes late opening up. But I suppose that takes a special kind of person to stoop that low, but I bet he felt very important after he'd hit the send buton and his small insignificant little life, was oh so very much more important.
 
harvey4banger said:
Yes you're correct, but as I previously said "Yeap hands up, didnt actually realise I was moaning myself until I read through my post :rolleyes: "

So I suppose that would make me just as bad as the moaners at my club, but then I wouldnt stoop as low as writting a letter of complaint to my club and informing them the pro was 30 minutes late opening up. But I suppose that takes a special kind of person to stoop that low, but I bet he felt very important after he'd hit the send buton and his small insignificant little life, was oh so very much more important.
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Yip,

I do agree about the Pro bit and I assume the club hit "delete". I do however so no issue at all in complaining about the course if you feel that something is wrong. As a member you have a right to do so and believe a club should actually encourage feedback, both good or bad.

Champion. :thup:
 
Nothing like a good old moan. Or a moan about the moaner. Then the rest can moan about the moaners moaning

P.S. now I will have a moan about this site just shutting down. As I tried to post a cleaver reply to this tread. Now I cant remember what I wrote (not the first time either). :whistle: .
 
Golf clubs are full of moaners and gossip queens.

Its where men go to do what women do over coffee mornings.

The amount of moaning I hear on the course, practice area, pro shop and club house is phenomenal.

Not just moaning, but bithcing too.

Golf clubs attract busy body types that play the course and bitch about it aswell as bitch about other members.

When people whinge and I am in their company I either walk away mostly or ask them what they are going to do in order to address the issue.

Usually they aren't going to do anything about it as they are simply moaning/whining/bitching because they love to.

Ash!!
 
so i'm assuming everyone's club on here is perfect and not a blade of grass is out of place and the greens run at 12 on the stimp,all the members are great to get along with and the beer is cheap and always cold!! or do you have a top notch sec. like my club who has been a scratch golfer for over 25 years and loves the club and tells it like it is,his door is always open to nip in and talk about any problems your having or if you think something is going wrong and what is being done to rectify problems,your always going to get tittle-tattle in all walks of life and golf clubs are no exception
 
As you may or may not be aware I very rarely moan........................ :whistle:

That said this part of your post interests me...

harvey4banger said:
On the putting green on Sunday, going about my business, 4 of the clubs scratch golfers warming up, didnt do anything else but bitch and moan for 20 minutes about the club and the coarse.
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If 4 scratch players are complaining do you think it's to the detriment of the club or the betterment?


A group of 28 h/cappers probably isn't the best crowd to listen to when it comes to the course is it? They are happy just to make the fairway most of the time ;)

That said, I think clubs should be more inclined to listen to it's members of all shapes and sizes.. encourage it MORE and get a better course and atmosphere as a result.
 
ash01 said:
Golf clubs are full of moaners and gossip queens.

Its where men go to do what women do over coffee mornings.

The amount of moaning I hear on the course, practice area, pro shop and club house is phenomenal.

Not just moaning, but bithcing too.

Golf clubs attract busy body types that play the course and bitch about it aswell as bitch about other members.

When people whinge and I am in their company I either walk away mostly or ask them what they are going to do in order to address the issue.

Usually they aren't going to do anything about it as they are simply moaning/whining/bitching because they love to.

Ash!!
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That comment is probably true for 95% of Clubs. Agree with your sentiments entirely
 
For me, it's about how they moan. Take the 4ball example from the OP. Ranting amongst themselves with no intention of offering suggestions for improvement to the committee, the pro, the captain, etc., then they can't surely expect change? Things won't get changed unless they moan to the right people.

However, I'd be the first to admit that a good old moan does feel great! :)
 
Bratty said:
For me, it's about how they moan. Take the 4ball example from the OP. Ranting amongst themselves with no intention of offering suggestions for improvement to the committee, the pro, the captain, etc., then they can't surely expect change? Things won't get changed unless they moan to the right people.

However, I'd be the first to admit that a good old moan does feel great! :)
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couldnt agree more with the first post, but the problem does sit with whether their moan is taken on board.

there have been many issues at our club, some of which arise every week/month/year, yet the directors/owners/managment of the club never pay no attention, and its silly things

distance markers in the fariways, coloured pins or pins with the sliding ball on holes where the green base is blind, pins cut at the back of a soggy wet green so the green gets trampled while is vunerable... the list goes on yet no one listens. with this in mind i would ask is it a case that the group of scratch players are fed up with complaining with no one listening.
 
Oddsocks said:
couldnt agree more with the first post, but the problem does sit with whether their moan is taken on board.

there have been many issues at our club, some of which arise every week/month/year, yet the directors/owners/managment of the club never pay no attention, and its silly things

distance markers in the fariways, coloured pins or pins with the sliding ball on holes where the green base is blind, pins cut at the back of a soggy wet green so the green gets trampled while is vunerable... the list goes on yet no one listens. with this in mind i would ask is it a case that the group of scratch players are fed up with complaining with no one listening.
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I agree entirely that it becomes frustrating when things are raised and nothing is done. I think the main problem, and we're guilty of this as well, is that when things are raised, there's no forum for feeding back to all the members. I'm going to suggest a bulletin board where people can read some of the decisions stemming from committee meetings, like why it's not possible to fix the bunkers quickly, the reason for not replacing some of the dodgy mats we have, etc.
 
Moaning is part of life, everyone likes to have a moan, especially us Brits! At the end of the day you can't please everyone so a lot of people will have at least one thing to moan about, for me it's the state of our tee boxes and the 9th green......the amount of times I have had a good whinge about those is unbelievable, still I wouldn't move clubs because of it.

It's the same with everything in life, my friend stayed at the Burj Al Arab hotel (the one shaped as a Sail in Dubai), the only 7* hotel in the world (or it was at the time, not sure if it is now). He was there for 5 days and said that after 3 days he started to notice the cracks in the place and were he the complaining type he actually would have had a moan.
 
Bratty said:
I agree entirely that it becomes frustrating when things are raised and nothing is done. I think the main problem, and we're guilty of this as well, is that when things are raised, there's no forum for feeding back to all the members. I'm going to suggest a bulletin board where people can read some of the decisions stemming from committee meetings, like why it's not possible to fix the bunkers quickly, the reason for not replacing some of the dodgy mats we have, etc.
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I offered to set up and run a members only forum for our club, with a restricted forum for committee members so things that needed addressing could be discussed in private so it didnt have to wait until the monthly meeting. it fell of deaf ears also.

some clubs are stuck in their ways bratts,
 
Firstly isn't Whinging a national sport?

Bet those guys moaned about the state of the course at this time last year and the year before too. And they are only on the putting green so haven't actually seen it 'today' yet! Everyone is entitled to complain though - just not constantly!

They won't all be scratch players either, low maybe but I bet their group will have higher cappers in it - who won't let anyone through if/when they lose position. And they'll noisily dominate the bar/clubhouse after their round as well.

While the club would suffer without them, I bet there's plenty of members that would be relieved if they inflicted themselves on another club.

Interesting to here of Pro's glitch. Just shows how much responsibility for small reward.
 
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