Should we be EXPECTED to use the clubhouse bar

[JazzyJust]

I since I've been a member of Pedham Place Golf Centre I've always had a coffee before teeing off and sometimes pop back in for drink after the round with the other players I just been on the course with unless I've got to shoot straight, then I'll drop my scorecard in and then disappear.

 

[chris661]

I actually think Fish makes a good point & can understand his frustration. If a member links a personal Blog to the forum it's fair game to question it's content.

Maybe, but why the flounce? Just seems to be overly dramatic to me.

 

[pokerjoke]

I payed £13.40 for 4 drinks yesterday at a golf club.
If it was £10 I would of had 2 rounds.
I begrudge paying £3+ for orange juice and lemonade.

 

[Pin-seeker]

Maybe, but why the flounce? Just seems to be overly dramatic to me.

Yeah maybe it was,I haven't seen the PM he received from the Mod tho. Personally I can't see what he's done wrong. Maybe Links to personal Blogs should be removed if were not allowed to discuss them.

 

[Mungoscorner]

My Golf Club has a reciprocal golf arrangement with a number of other likeminded clubs.
I am able to book a tee time and play for free at these other clubs, but part of the arrangement is that i am expected to make use of the clubhouse facilities and have a drink and a meal before or after my game.
I think this is a great idea, and gives me the opportunity of playing other course's for free as part of my membership fee.
I always eat/drink after my game, unless i have to be somewhere else immediately afterwards.

 

[DCB]

Yeah maybe it was,I haven't seen the PM he received from the Mod tho. Personally I can't see what he's done wrong. Maybe Links to personal Blogs should be removed if were not allowed to discuss them.

Perhaps he'll post the content of the pm he received to put this whole matter to bed.

Always two sides to every story

 

[Snelly]

Having a quick pint with your playing partners whilst you dissect the round is all part of golf as far as I’m concerned, but the club has to make you want to have that pint in their bar. They are already ahead of the game in that they have you on their premises!!

If there are people who just want to play and go, that’s fine too – these people can’t then expect to have any say in house & bar stuff, or complain that the bar isn’t open the one time a year that they do want a drink.

Good post - totally agree.

 

[SGC001]

Other, I find the question to be loaded.

Edit: My default setting would be to use the clubhouse unless i had reason not too. It would be my choice, but I'd have to question why I'd be a member of a place where I wouldn't use the clubhouse under any circumstances (closer to the opposite of been expected to use the club ALL of the time than the option given).

For me it's a game and it's supposed to be social.

That's not even considering that clubs need to survive and given options of an increase in subs of £30 or £50 bar credit for all members I'd vote for the latter.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Why did you join a golf club? Do you not want to play?

I joined a golf club - recognising that a golf course need a golf club to run it. I joined a club so that I play golf and could be part of a group of like-minded souls working to improve what we bought in to - and take pleasure out of what we build in the club.

I will add that I'm talking specifically about members clubs rather than any other type of privately owned club. A members club is run for and by the members. I think that if you join a members club you should accept that the course you play is only as it is in part due to the efforts of other members. If all members took a 'someone else will do it - I'm too busy - I've paid my money' attitude then clubs would be knackered. Just as well that they don't. If you can't be bothered contributing to your club and see it as someone else's job to keep it going then that is sad (and that's the best thing I can say).

And to be honest I'm happy for the club to take your money and not really bother about you - if that's what you want - because I know most members at my place aren't car park members. But don't come looking for favours from other members or from the club. And oh yes - don't bother taking any of the reciprocals or complimentarys when course is closed - these are for club members

...and final oh yes - you don't have to spend time in the clubhouse after your round to be an active and supportive member of the club.

 

[Birchy]

I joined a golf club - recognising that a golf course need a golf club to run it. I joined a club so that I plkay golf and could be part of a group of like-minded souls working to improve what we bought in to - and take pleasure out of what we build in the club.

I will add that I'm talking specifically about members clubs rather than any other type of privately owned club. A members club is run for and by the members. I think that if you join a members club you should accept that the course you play is only as it is in part due to the efforts of other members. If all members took a 'someone else will do it - I'm too busy - I've paid my money' attitude then clubs would be knackered. Just as well that they don't. If you can't be bothered contributing to your club and see it as someone else's job to keep it going then that is sad (and that's the best thing I can say).

And to be honest I'm happy for the club to take your money and not really bother about you - if that's what you want - because I know most members at my place aren't car park members. But don't come looking for favours from other members or from the club. And oh yes - don't bother taking any of the reciprocals or complimentarys when course is closed - these are for club members

Would you put a pint in the clubhouse or lunch in the clubhouse over time spent with your children??? (if you had/have any)

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Would you put a pint in the clubhouse or lunch in the clubhouse over time spent with your children??? (if you had/have any)

If I only had 1hr a week spare and had to choose to spend it in the clubhouse or with my children as the only time I would have with them in the week, then the latter obviously. But I just do not believe that to be the case for the majority of members of golf clubs - you can make it so if you wish - but you must make it so.

As it happens I took 8 yrs off playing whilst my children were young so I could spend time with them and wouldn't be on the golf course all the time. I only started playing again when my eldest was 11yrs old and my youngest 8. So I basically completely sacrificed my golf for my family for these years.

 

[Snelly]

Would you put a pint in the clubhouse or lunch in the clubhouse over time spent with your children??? (if you had/have any)

Good god. Get the violins out....


What about.............. how dare you disappear at the weekends for 5 hours to play golf with your friends when your poor little baby children are devastated and starved of fatherly love because of the hours you work in the week? You only have the weekends with the poor defenceless darlings so surely, disappearing for a massive chunk of the only time you can spend with the neglected mites borders on the pathologically selfish?!

You utter brute.




Have a word with yourself chap.

 

[bluewolf]

I joined a golf club - recognising that a golf course need a golf club to run it. I joined a club so that I plkay golf and could be part of a group of like-minded souls working to improve what we bought in to - and take pleasure out of what we build in the club.

I will add that I'm talking specifically about members clubs rather than any other type of privately owned club. A members club is run for and by the members. I think that if you join a members club you should accept that the course you play is only as it is in part due to the efforts of other members. If all members took a 'someone else will do it - I'm too busy - I've paid my money' attitude then clubs would be knackered. Just as well that they don't. If you can't be bothered contributing to your club and see it as someone else's job to keep it going then that is sad (and that's the best thing I can say).

And to be honest I'm happy for the club to take your money and not really bother about you - if that's what you want - because I know most members at my place aren't car park members. But don't come looking for favours from other members or from the club. And oh yes - don't bother taking any of the reciprocals or complimentarys when course is closed - these are for club members

Quite possibly the biggest load of snobbish tripe I have ever read on this forum. Thanks for taking the time to write it though.

As it happens, I've never used a reciprocal, I've never asked for favours from anyone at the club. I just pay the subs that my members club decrees necessary, play the course, repair my pitchmarks, replace my divots, pick up litter on the way round, show proper courtesy to everyone on the course, clean my shoes in the designated area, put my kit in the car, pull out of the carpark and drive home.

Interestingly enough, most people I have met in that time are more than happy with my (obviously intolerable to you) behaviour. They understand that with a young family at home and other constraints, I have to prioritize my time. They would prefer that I carry on playing the course for the Princely sum of £800 per year, rather than leave and take that £800 somewhere else due to my inability to spend another hour or so in the bar. They realize that I cannot commit time to committees as I work most nights.

Maybe it's because there is no longer a waiting list at my members club. There is no one to replace me if I leave. If I leave the club is £800 worse off. Maybe, to you, that is a sad sign of the times. Maybe, 20 years ago, I would have been hounded out of the club and ridiculed as someone who put his family before the golf club. Maybe it's time that peoples attitudes changed and reflected the fact that society has changed. I won't hold my breath in your case though. You appear to be stricken with terminal rose tinted snobbery...

 

[Snelly]

As it happens I took 8 yrs off playing whilst my children were young so I could spend time with them and wouldn't be on the golf course all the time. I only started playing again when my eldest was 11yrs old and my youngest 8. So I basically completely sacrificed my golf for my family for these years.

Good man. This is exactly what I did. I am 10 years a nomad golfer and my eldest child is 10. This is not a coincidence.

Lovely view from up here on the moral high ground eh?


As for the rest of you with kids under 10 who still go and play golf, you should be self flagellating at every opportunity. As a parent, you have FAILED!!!! Just beyond selfish. Truly outrageous.

 

[Snelly]

Quite possibly the biggest load of snobbish tripe I have ever read on this forum. Thanks for taking the time to write it though.

As it happens, I've never used a reciprocal, I've never asked for favours from anyone at the club. I just pay the subs that my members club decrees necessary, play the course, repair my pitchmarks, replace my divots, pick up litter on the way round, show proper courtesy to everyone on the course, clean my shoes in the designated area, put my kit in the car, pull out of the carpark and drive home.

Interestingly enough, most people I have met in that time are more than happy with my (obviously intolerable to you) behaviour. They understand that with a young family at home and other constraints, I have to prioritize my time. They would prefer that I carry on playing the course for the Princely sum of £800 per year, rather than leave and take that £800 somewhere else due to my inability to spend another hour or so in the bar. They realize that I cannot commit time to committees as I work most nights.

Maybe it's because there is no longer a waiting list at my members club. There is no one to replace me if I leave. If I leave the club is £800 worse off. Maybe, to you, that is a sad sign of the times. Maybe, 20 years ago, I would have been hounded out of the club and ridiculed as someone who put his family before the golf club. Maybe it's time that peoples attitudes changed and reflected the fact that society has changed. I won't hold my breath in your case though. You appear to be stricken with terminal rose tinted snobbery...

I am not a snob but £800? Must be a right dump!

 

[bluewolf]

...and final oh yes - you don't have to spend time in the clubhouse after your round to be an active and supportive member of the club.

Ii'll address your edit seperately then. I bring guests regularly. I use the Pro for lessons. I bought my last set of irons from the Pro, despite them being cheaper elsewhere. Is that enough????

As it happens I took 8 yrs off playing whilst my children were young so I could spend time with them and wouldn't be on the golf course all the time. I only started playing again when my eldest was 11yrs old and my youngest 8. So I basically completely sacrificed my golf for my family for these years.

And in that 8 years, how much did you contribute to the Golf Club? If the answer is nothing, then I appear to be contributing £800 per year more than you did. Which in my dim head makes £6400. Is that enough?

 

[bluewolf]

Good man. This is exactly what I did. I am 10 years a nomad golfer and my eldest child is 10. This is not a coincidence.

Lovely view from up here on the moral high ground eh?


As for the rest of you with kids under 10 who still go and play golf, you should be self flagellating at every opportunity. As a parent, you have FAILED!!!! Just beyond selfish. Truly outrageous.

My kids are at school when I play....

 

[JustOne]

All our proceeds go to the caterer, so you're not supporting the club at all by going in (above and beyond the caterer making enough money to stick around, which he gets just from functions)

 

[bluewolf]

I am not a snob but £800? Must be a right dump!

Its a tidy sum oop ere in t'north... I had to choose between the Golf Club and Indoor plumbing..

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Quite possibly the biggest load of snobbish tripe I have ever read on this forum. Thanks for taking the time to write it though.

As it happens, I've never used a reciprocal, I've never asked for favours from anyone at the club. I just pay the subs that my members club decrees necessary, play the course, repair my pitchmarks, replace my divots, pick up litter on the way round, show proper courtesy to everyone on the course, clean my shoes in the designated area, put my kit in the car, pull out of the carpark and drive home.

Interestingly enough, most people I have met in that time are more than happy with my (obviously intolerable to you) behaviour. They understand that with a young family at home and other constraints, I have to prioritize my time. They would prefer that I carry on playing the course for the Princely sum of £800 per year, rather than leave and take that £800 somewhere else due to my inability to spend another hour or so in the bar. They realize that I cannot commit time to committees as I work most nights.

Maybe it's because there is no longer a waiting list at my members club. There is no one to replace me if I leave. If I leave the club is £800 worse off. Maybe, to you, that is a sad sign of the times. Maybe, 20 years ago, I would have been hounded out of the club and ridiculed as someone who put his family before the golf club. Maybe it's time that peoples attitudes changed and reflected the fact that society has changed. I won't hold my breath in your case though. You appear to be stricken with terminal rose tinted snobbery...

Snobbish tripe - LOL - shrugs and saunters off.