Mobile phones at golf clubs - your view?

[Herbie]

Re: Mobile phones/golf club - your view?

Everyones life is an emergency these days and everyone is so important!

If you want to use a mob phone on a golf course with the exception of switching it on to call for an ambulance for someone on the course, then dont play golf!

You never see these so important people who need their mob phones taking an urgent call that makes them run to their cars,nor do you see people with mob phones doing the same when they have no signal or flat battery.

YOU ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT NOR IS ANYTHING SO URGENT!
If it is, dont play golf X number of miles from anywhere.

Im sure in the future we will see snooker players and footballers etc carrying them and stopping when it rings making everyone else stop and wait too!

Mob phones....NO! except switched off on the course.

This chap joined myself and nephew once and on about the 5th hole his phone rang, as he yakked away, we tee'd off and carried on without him noticing, when he finished his call we were on the green and he was on his own, but it wasnt so important for him to bugger off on his own, he still kept playing.....on his own

 

[chipsandegg]

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Hi all,
Mobiles arent allowed at my course either, only in the car park. today i have been on the course, with my mobile on silent,inmy pocket because my wife is nine and a half months pregnant and all i do is before teeing up on each hole is to check to see if i have missed a call or text from her.. no problem! any other messages or missed calls can wait until i get back to my car.

Andy

 

[Ste_Denial]

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i would never talk on phone while on the course, but i have used it to text while walking to my next shot. i would never stand and hold up play to use it.

 

[Faldo_Fan]

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Got to have them i'm afraid. If more golf clubs moved with the times instead of ignoring it they wouldn't be struggling so much to fill memberships! In this fast paced world we live in, most of us need to stay in contact despite being busy with other things.

Yep, I can see your point there. We have a Ban on the course and in the clubhouse. We also have a 4 year waiting list and a £1000 joining fee.

I think your club is in the minority, they are abolishing joining fees around my location and the 102 year old club i'm a member of has no waiting list for the first time in 20 years! But my point is clubs need to change SOME rules if they are to make themselves more appealing to the next generation. Flexibility is what's needed.

 

[Mike_j_golf]

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My Wife is due in July and I won't be on the course without it from now put it on vibrate and walk while your talking so no delays can't see the problem myself.
Mike

 

[TWM]

Damned nuisance. Ban them. Ban them. Ban them.
I am sick of the idiots who ignore the rules at my club.

 

[Faldo_Fan]

Unfortunately not many etiquette rules at golf clubs have been changed with the times! Our club has short socks banned with shorts, only knee length socks are allowed.....are they serious??? WTF is that rule for? Manderin shirts....banned! I'd like to ban a few of the old fossils that run golf clubs then we might be able to encourage the next Tiger Woods to join the club instaed of putting him off?

 

[Faldo_Fan]

Oh i forgot one.....dinner jackets must be worn by men in the dining room after 7pm......i've sat in there in 80 deg heat watching some of the old boys nearly pass out!!!! Wake up fossils....your killing your club!

 

[janmolby]

I do on call support every other week which means I need to be contactable even when I'm out golfing. I put the phone on silent & have it in my golf bag, only checking it every other hole or so & if I were to miss a call I'd ring them back as quietly as possible.

So far I've been lucky in that it hasn't rang yet while I've been out but if mobile phones were banned from courses that means anyone who's on call wouldn't be able to play which is a bit ridiculous. I make sure the people I'm playing with know I'm on call and if something serious were to happen at work I would have to leave.

Obviously some people use mobiles while out playing with no consideration for others but that doesn't mean they have to be banned, it just means some people need to learn manners.

 

[vig]

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YOU ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT NOR IS ANYTHING SO URGENT!
If it is, dont play golf X number of miles from anywhere.

Mob phones....NO! except switched off on the course.

I agree with the last part HNJ
I also had to appologise to Tony & Mike at Hoylake as mine went off, in my bag. Should have been on silent.

I give direct instructions that I shouldn't be contacted when I am out playing and normally, someone covers my calls at work when i'm not in...but SOME things are that important and do need immediate attention and sometimes that decision has to be made by me.

Sorry if it goes against everyone's views but that's my job.

 

[Herbie]

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My Wife is due in July and I won't be on the course without it from now put it on vibrate and walk while your talking so no delays can't see the problem myself.
Mike

I was 250 miles away with my first and 300 or more with my second, I made both births comfortably so I dont see it as an excuse myself
If you are that worried about your wife and future kin situation why keep disappearing to golf?

 

[KeefG]

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My Wife is due in July and I won't be on the course without it from now put it on vibrate and walk while your talking so no delays can't see the problem myself.
Mike

I was 250 miles away with my first and 300 or more with my second, I made both births comfortably so I dont see it as an excuse myself
If you are that worried about your wife and future kin situation why keep disappearing to golf?

Amen to that!

 

[EchtLoon]

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Phones should be banned from the course but not banned in the clubhouse is my opinion.

Its all well and good saying what if somebody needs to get in contact in an emergency, but what did people do in the days before mobiles? There is nothing worse, and trust me it happened to me last week, than taking your back swing and someone's phone launches into a rendition of the star wars theme and puts you right off. Or someone walking around the fairway in front of you on the phone whilst you're stood waiting on the tee.....this has also happened to me recently!

I know its not exactly the same vein, but you wouldnt see a footballer answering his phone and running down the wing whilst organising Saturdays roasting at the same time would you?

There is a time & a place for mobile phones, golf courses are not one of those places!!!

Agree with all of this. There is no need at all to have phones on the course. If that once in a lifetime emergency occurs, then just as we did pre-mobiles, phone the clubhouse and someone will get you off the course.

I don't see the problem in the clubhouse though, if someone wants to make a call, no big deal imo.

 

[Parmo]

Doesnty really bother be unless on the course, but since at our club we don't have a dress code(except hats) never really thought of it.

 

[Sneds]

Re: Mobile phones/golf club - your view?

Another case of golf clubs being stuck in the dark ages. Mobile phones are part of modern society.

That being said, I wouldn't appreciate somebody having a conversation during a round. However, I don't see the problem in the clubhouse, especially as it's essentially a bar.

Ok, in the clubhouse, not ok on the course. And emergencies are obviously a completely different matter.

 

[Parmo]

Just to add, I keep my phone on whilst on the course but on silent and check just in case no one has bit the dust.

 

[USER1999]

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Any where on the golf course or in the club house silent mode should be ok. If it rings while you are in the club house, go outside or to the locker room to answer it. I do have some sympathy with guys who need to be contactable by work. Some jobs really are 24 hour ones. (before mobiles, may be people were never expected to be available 24/7).

On the course, I have no problems with someone yacking on a mobile, provided they keep up with play. This seldom happens, because phones are banned. This means to recieve/make a call, people wander into the woods, or lag back down the fairway so as not to disturb anyone. This then makes them slow. If they were allowed, at least they would keep up.

That said, I don't use mine on the course or in the club house. Evil things, work of satan.

 

[MVP]

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if your a business type and your phones gonna go of every 5 mins then thats a problem. Other than that phones are ok and come in handy for emergencys

 

[Gustavo]

Mine goes straight on silent as soon as I get out of the car, it stays in the bag until I check it at the 9th tee. Or if I'm being held up by an abnormal cse of slow play, I'll send a text to the Mrs, or whoever I'm going to be delayed meeting afterwards to let them know I'm going to be an extra 45 mins/hour.

As for the cluhouse, NO NO NO NO phones.

Just my opinion.

 

[jammydodger]

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Cant see any reason why you should have a mobile phone switched on whilst playing ..UNLESS it's on silent so you can check if that ever so important message/call has arrived. In no way should they ever be heard 'ringing' and no way should anyone actually receive or make a call.

If you're waiting for an emergency call then go to the garden centre/shops/walk in the park and leave the rest of us golfers who do have manners/etiquette to our peaceful round of golf where we're trying to get away from all you (self) important people who think youre indispensible to work/family/society in general.

I see no reason not to have youre phone with you in case one of the old fellas collapses whilst playing his 6th from the bunker....that is an emergency that requires some swift action and a mobile would be very welcome in this situation.

In the clubhouse I dont have a problem with people taking a call (if on silent/vibrate) as long as they go outside to continue their everso important conservation.

I once sat on a bus for 30 minutes listening to some stupid woman talking to her friend about soap operas / men / beauty products etc etc and when she got up to leave she said 'see you in 5 mins'.........aaarggh ffs