Official Society Handicaps

[LCVreg]

Do you realise hoe much it will also cost

For the software
Yearly license
EGU and County fees
Courses that will then charge you further

Which course will the official HC be set on and then be deemed the Home course for that HC - what if courses say no to having the HC set there

Costs are in the thousands for HC software on a yearly basis

Yep - already run it! - yep already pay them, courses sorted, and costs most definately in the thousands!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Yep - already run it! - yep already pay them, courses sorted, and costs most definately in the thousands!

Where are all the facts and figures to back up these fairy tales? Why don't you think this hasn't been done before? Someone will have thought of it. Simple answer. It's pie in the sky and clubs in their hundreds would disappear without guranteed and budgeted income

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Yep - already run it! - yep already pay them, courses sorted, and costs most definately in the thousands!

Sorry your society already run HC software and pay EGU etc fees or are you talking the club here ?

And which course will the HC be based at ?

 

[Imurg]

Would County fees be payable in each County you play in..?

 

[PhilTheFragger]

How many people in your society, how often do you play and how much is the average cost per game ( without food)

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Yep - already run it! - yep already pay them, courses sorted, and costs most definately in the thousands!

This thread is becoming more far fetched by the minute. A society that pays thousands for handicapping software......do you think we button up the back?!?!?

 

[t0m]

Cripes, when was the last time anyone asked you for a handicap certificate - anyway, its all on computer now and CDH can be seen and traced by anybody!

To be honest I don't have a official hc so as soon. As I see that statement on a website I don't risk it. As a round can be upwards of £40 and travel to be turned away

 

[Deleted member 18588]

This thread is becoming more far fetched by the minute. A society that pays thousands for handicapping software......do you think we button up the back?!?!?

Not only that but a course prepared to be a "Home Club" all at no extra charge. The man's a genius (or a dreamer!).

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Not only that but a course prepared to be a "Home Club" all at no extra charge. The man's a genius (or a dreamer!).

Certainly a legend in his own mind

 

[DCB]

What happened to The Wessex Amateur Golf Tour this year ?

 

[Hobbit]

This thread is becoming more far fetched by the minute. A society that pays thousands for handicapping software......do you think we button up the back?!?!?

I was thinking earlier today that Walter Mitty had joined the forum.

Aren't we due another huff and "I'm out of here, bye." More repeats than The Sound of Music.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I was thinking earlier today that Walter Mitty had joined the forum.

Aren't we due another huff and "I'm out of here, bye." More repeats than The Sound of Music.

Some facts to back up the new golfing world would be nice

 

[DCB]

Someone once said

" the Societies I play with are all genuine club members with real handicaps, "


So, why have we had all this guff over the past couple of days ?

 

[LCVreg]

Torphin hill was a goat track, one of the worst golf courses iv ever stepped on. With a clubhouse that was like something from the high chaparral. It was always going to struggle when the going got tough, I'd guess the only members there were people who had been brought up through that course. I'd hazard a guess most others that are closing are the same.
And having official handicaps for societies wouldn't have changed it, it would probably have helped it to close quicker.

Shows had attitudes have changed. Lothianburn and Torphin, both very old courses and of traditional Scottish thoughts, now gone forever. Hilly, natural and basic, something I love, but it appears not the modern player who now also have the modern easy walking parkland courses nearby, courses that will never send the pulse racing!

 

[LCVreg]

I was thinking earlier today that Walter Mitty had joined the forum.

Aren't we due another huff and "I'm out of here, bye." More repeats than The Sound of Music.

Sounds like an apt name!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Shows had attitudes have changed. Lothianburn and Torphin, both very old courses and of traditional Scottish thoughts, now gone forever. Hilly, natural and basic, something I love, but it appears not the modern player who now also have the modern easy walking parkland courses nearby, courses that will never send the pulse racing!

Instead of listing courses that have gone, why not come out and answer the questions many have asked?

 

[Hobbit]

I've just read the first five pages of this thread, and there's a recurring theme. The OP is looking for support. The majority of posters have asked for qualifying evidence before willing to commit to that. On not receiving answers to the questions that might engender that support they have, understandably expressed scepticism.

When are we going to see links posted up that support the argument? if the number of unanswered questions and points is anything to go by.... The OP has a vision but nothing he's willing to share to support it.

All we get is an accusation of support or be a Luddite. Sorry but blind faith I'm not willing to give.

 

[DCB]

Shows had attitudes have changed. Lothianburn and Torphin, both very old courses and of traditional Scottish thoughts, now gone forever. Hilly, natural and basic, something I love, but it appears not the modern player who now also have the modern easy walking parkland courses nearby, courses that will never send the pulse racing!

Torphin had been under threat since their landowner first put the course up for sale as arable land in the mid 1980s. I got out at that time. There's more to the Lothianburn story than first meets the eye. So neither is a good example of the failing golf situation in Scotland.

 

[rosecott]

I have deliberately held back from posting on this thread as I could not believe that the OP could continue to spout such an incredible amount of drivel over the number of days that he has lasted. He clearly has not the faintest of clues about how golf courses – and therefore golf clubs – are financed. His ridiculous assertions have belied belief and his belief in his own vast experience and knowledge is laughable. I can only believe that the mods have allowed this nonsense to continue on the basis that there must be enough rope to hang himself.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

I have deliberately held back from posting on this thread as I could not believe that the OP could continue to spout such an incredible amount of drivel over the number of days that he has lasted. He clearly has not the faintest of clues about how golf courses – and therefore golf clubs – are financed. His ridiculous assertions have belied belief and his belief in his own vast experience and knowledge is laughable. I can only believe that the mods have allowed this nonsense to continue on the basis that there must be enough rope to hang himself.

Mods not involved as making a complete ass of yourself isn't against the rules.