One is a rule of golf, you're permitted 14 clubs.
Indeed. A club should really be doing what it can for the benefit of its members (in general), within any guidelines.
Educating the whingers should be the first course of action.
Perhaps a club that has that problem, as their first action they should look to see why.
Of course. However, referring to a group of members as "whingers" is not a good start. Sometimes, there may actually be a legitimate reason for the "whinging", and referring it as whinging could easily imply you do not take them seriously, and there are no issues for them to be concerned about.
Of course, at no point did Backache go into detail the steps the club would take before they took such action. In his example, it would be clear that they have at least been diligent enough to spot a pattern that may cause concern. I'm sure they'd look at the players that were making these high scores, and if it was apparent it was by players who were somehow conning the system, they would act on an individual basis. They may identify that many of these scores are made by high handicappers new to golf, and therefore there were limited scores before the comps, and poor ones, thus the high handicap.
What we're seeing here is whinging lower handicappers demanding/advocating discriminatory terms of competition because think they should be winning handicap competitions disproportionately often compared to higher handicappers (perhaps because that's what they were used to under UHS). That is remedied by education, not appeasing them by excluding the higher handicappers. Legitimate concerns about specific individual handicaps are dealt with in other ways.
What we appear to have is a large number of golfers who have concerns about the system. It is clearly not a good thing that WHS might alienate a significant number of golfers, unless they think an even greater number of high handicappers will play the game, and increase the number of golfers overall.
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That is your perception. I know personally of many golfers who complain about it, and at least one who gave up golf as he wasn't bothered anymore. There are clearly a few on this forum who have raised the issue. I am guessing that if you extend the numbers to all golf clubs in the UK, the numbers of golfers that are concerned might be pretty high. A lot higher than pre-WHS anyway.
Certainly not at my club.
When people complain about something, they are often criticised that just because something happens at their club, does not make it true overall.Certainly not at my club.
But aren't many/most forum posters there to complain about something. I often think that what I was told about golfer before I started playing was why many join golf clubs - hit a ball around a field, buy a pint and find something to complain about.
The men's tees now have ratings.
I wonder why they changed their mind.Hence the past tense on my post
