Not Welcome

[Green Bay Hacker]

Not quite the image a captain should be portraying. If anything he should be in your corner if other members moan that your standard of golf is not yet at their perceived levels. After only 6 months golf they should be encouraging you and not knocking you down.

A decent captain would also ensure that you were drawn with him in the texas scramble.

 

[Fish]

If you have been accepted as a member of the club and have been given a handicap and there are no handicap restrictions then you play, its as simple as that and any request to have you removed is discriminative and very immature. If you looked at a lot of the other competitors scores in comps whom are taking part, I'd suspect there's quite a few that have scored over 100+.

It's a scramble for gods sake, I'd be complaining to the GM saying your being asked to be excluded, especially as your a relatively new member and you should be being made to feel welcome, not shut out!

Name & shame the club....

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I would stick your name up and keep it up. You've paid your subs. If it turns out he then black balls you anyway solely on ability I'd be putting it in writing to the committee/management/owner and asking for his resignation. That is no way to treat a new member and one that clearly wants to get involved and play regularly

 

[Deleted member 1418]

Fair play to the captain if you ask me - don't want one person ruining it for the others............!

Seriously that is disgusting from a captain of the club. Like others have said, go and play anyway. You've paid your membership and therefore fully entitled to play. Turn up, stand tall and go out there and have some fun and show this idiot up. Hopefully you'll have a great game.

You should let us know how you get on; and whether this has happened to anyone else at the club.

 

[richart]

I am feeling rather depressed at the moment. I have been playing golf for six months and play with the Seniors and I have yet to break a hundred. I play in the monthly singles comps and put my name down for a Texas Scramble. The Seniors Captain told me today that I would not be welcome as I would be weakening the team that drew me. Do I take my name off the list?

I would play and write a strong letter to the Club. Captains should be encouraging new members to play, not discourage. Texas scramble is actually the perfect format for relatively new golfers, and they should be a bit of fun, and not taken too seriously.

 

[Foxholer]

Captain seems an over zealous jerk!

As Richart has posted, T/S are ideal social formats.

As it happens, I won a whole club T/S with a team member who hadn't broken 100 for several years! He contributed 2 of the team's 10 birdies, set up another 2 and provided 2.6 of our team handicap!

 

[louise_a]

Ridiculous comment, leave your name in!

 

[fenwayrich]

I echo everything that has been said earlier. A disgusting attitude from someone who should be encouraging new members to join in and participate. I would definitely leave your name up there, and for sure every decent person in the club would be happy to have you on their team.

 

[Slab]

Not quite the image a captain should be portraying. If anything he should be in your corner if other members moan that your standard of golf is not yet at their perceived levels. After only 6 months golf they should be encouraging you and not knocking you down.

A decent captain would also ensure that you were drawn with him in the texas scramble.

Agree, the captain should be taking newbies into his own team. Even less reason for him not to when its just a fun event like this

Stay in, you will contribute

 

[bobmac]

I would complain to the club captain.

 

[matt71]

If he had said that to me I would of asked him to explain why? Then still left my name on the board !

Hope you still play and go out and play the game of your life, when you finish walk past him and just smile knowing that he is just a jumped up fool

 

[vkurup]

Agree with the view.. Keep you name on it and tell Richart to shut up. Not sure how you can slow down a TxS. Your team captain may decide to not use any of your strokes and it would be fine. Would be interesting if
1) You are part of his group... Then he can see how good you are rather than just looking at your handicap.
2) Your team defeats his... You have a lot of incentive to rub his nose in..

Either way, go and have fun. I am sure there is chapter in the NGT that talks about how to deal with such clowns..

 

[Doh]

I have never ever heard anything like this. I would make sure that all the other members of the seniors know what he said to you.
If you get no satisfaction I would at the very least be writing to the club council telling them how this person made you feel and you would like reassurances that this attitude is not supported by the club in general.

 

[Sweep]

I can only endorse the unanimous view expressed in earlier posts. Unbelievable and disgraceful behaviour by the Senior Captain. Has your club not got anyone better that could do the job?

 

[hors limite]

For me, what makes the Seniors Captain's position and attitude even more bizarre is that this is a Texas Scramble. It's the ideal competition for a beginner. Your f/c's get the benefit of your h/cap. If you duff it you pick it up and nobody is held up. You get to play second shots from places that are remarkably close to the green. And last but not least on a few occasions you will play an inspired shot/putt which will delight your playing partners.
Enjoy it - the bloke is a fool.

 

[Hammertoe]

Christ, this is just the sort of thing that puts me off golf clubs, if some jumped up old had said that to me I am afraid I would not have had your level of decorum and he would have got a swift 'who the do you think you are talking too?' followed by an even swifter 'go yourself', then I would report it to the committee and make it my mission to get him ousted as Captain.

Captains are meant to make you feel welcome and Texas Scrambles are meant to be a fun competition.

I apologise if any of my comments offended anyone but things like this make my blood boil, keep your name down, play the scramble and if he says anything again refer back to my opening paragraph.

 

[duncan mackie]

this is obviously a miss-understanding; no one would say this in real life.

what he was trying to communicate is how welcome you would be in club matches, and that he looks forward to being your partner.

sometimes you have to translate the words people use

make sure you put your name up for as many of the upcoming seniors matches as you are available for in addition to leaving it up for the scramble

 

[Franco]

Thank you everyone, for your responses. I telephoned the Seniors' Captain and told him that my name stays on the list and I expect to be in a team. The T/S is over two weeks away and I will let you know what happens.

I certainly feel much happier now.

 

[DCB]

Personally I'd be worried about joining a club that thinks it necessary to have a 'Seniors Captain' in the first place

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

this is obviously a miss-understanding; no one would say this in real life.

what he was trying to communicate is how welcome you would be in club matches, and that he looks forward to being your partner.

sometimes you have to translate the words people use

make sure you put your name up for as many of the upcoming seniors matches as you are available for in addition to leaving it up for the scramble

Exactly - our OP should dismiss what he thought he heard; and continue as if the comment was as welcoming as we would all expect. He should not act otherwise but just let things pan out - as everything will be fine. And letting S/C know he is still available and happy to play is the correct thing to do - with a big happy on his face.