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I have noticed a lot of golf clubs have snooker tables but I don't think I have ever seen one with a pool table!!


Are there any reasons for this? Im assuming its a stuffy class based reason.....
 
My club got rid of the snooker table years ago. There is now a pool table and a darts board in that room.
 
jimjoachim said:
Are there any reasons for this? Im assuming its a stuffy class based reason.....
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Yes. Gentlemen play snooker, ruffians play pool.

I rarely saw anyone on snooker tables in clubs I've been a member of. Too bloomin hard, takes too long to play a frame. A poor use of space in a club.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Yes. Gentlemen play snooker, ruffians play pool.

I rarely saw anyone on snooker tables in clubs I've been a member of. Too bloomin hard, takes too long to play a frame. A poor use of space in a club.
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Yeah, snooker is bloody difficult. Nearly as difficult as golf!
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Yes. Gentlemen play snooker, ruffians play pool.

I rarely saw anyone on snooker tables in clubs I've been a member of. Too bloomin hard, takes too long to play a frame. A poor use of space in a club.
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Tend to agree with this. My old club got rid of their snooker room during a refurb. Ive since joined a new club and they have one. I have found myself playing on it. Prob out of the sheer novelty for now.

I do think putting in pool tables would appeal more to the masses. I do see they play in local snooker league but only against other golf clubs.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Yes. Gentlemen play snooker, ruffians play pool.

I rarely saw anyone on snooker tables in clubs I've been a member of. Too bloomin hard, takes too long to play a frame. A poor use of space in a club.
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We have one and it’s very popular, 20p in the meter to pay for the lights over the table as well.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Yes. Gentlemen play snooker, ruffians play pool.

I rarely saw anyone on snooker tables in clubs I've been a member of. Too bloomin hard, takes too long to play a frame. A poor use of space in a club.
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You've clearly not spent much time hanging around in snooker clubs... :)
 
It's the opposite in most pubs, hardly any in our area have a snooker table now. Cost is the main problem, 20p in the meter for 20 minutes against 50p a game on a pool table and it should take far less time to finish a frame. More income and pool tables costs a lot less to maintain than snooker tables and also take up much less room, a recover with a good quality cloth on a snooker table is about £500.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Yes. Gentlemen play snooker, ruffians play pool.

I rarely saw anyone on snooker tables in clubs I've been a member of. Too bloomin hard, takes too long to play a frame. A poor use of space in a club.
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I'd add that it clashes too much with the social side of a golf club, both reducing inreraction, turnover/profitand the cost of 'accidents'! A snooker room with 2 tables was one of the first things to go when the 'lounge' at a club I used to belong to was updated. I know of 2 clubs that have (or had last time I was there) a table - one of which once belonged to Joe Davis!
 
ger147 said:
You've clearly not spent much time hanging around in snooker clubs... :)
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Ha ha. It is a contradiction as the snooker halls I have been in were really seedy but the perception of a golf club having a snooker table is that it is flash.

I remember going into a snooker hall in Byker, Newcastle, as a student with some mates. First time on a full sized table. After an hour I think we had potted 3 balls. We stuck to pool after that, much easier.
 
Our club used to have a snooker room, they moved it to make a junior common room, then they sold it to make way for a function room (more income), then they closed the junior common room to make way for non golfing visitors and disabled toilets.

They did put in a pool table in one of the bars but everybody complained it took up too much room so it went along with the dartboard.

The snooker table was not a great loss. I used to be a person who played snooker 5 days a week but the golf club table had such poorly cut pockets I hardly ever played on it. The only time it was used regularly was about 2 hours on a Saturday afternoon.
 
We use to have one when we were in the old clubhouse but it got taken away to make a meeting room. Wouldn't want a pool table in our bar (not really anywhere to put it) but we were talking about getting a darts team up to bring revenue in over the winter and putting the board(s) on those portable stands. Not sure if that is still going ahead. I better find my darts in case
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Ha ha. It is a contradiction as the snooker halls I have been in were really seedy but the perception of a golf club having a snooker table is that it is flash.

I remember going into a snooker hall in Byker, Newcastle, as a student with some mates. First time on a full sized table. After an hour I think we had potted 3 balls. We stuck to pool after that, much easier.
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Having been NZ Univerity Snooker Champion once ( and NZU Billiards Champion twice) I can relate to the above! After years on pool tables, a Christmas Eve session at a snooker room netted a highest break of 11!
 
I'm a member of a local snooker club, probably play about once every 4-6 weeks. Membership is only £35 and the fees are a lot lower for members than for guests so it still makes sense to pay for the membership. It is a hard game, but not as hard as golf!

Saying that, my highest break is only around 30, but that is just confirmation that I am as useless at snooker as I am at golf.

One thing that does surprise me is that our club doesn't offer any tuition at all. I'd love to have a couple of lessons from a decent player. Little things like a slightly wrong stance make a big difference to how you play.
 
rudebhoy said:
One thing that does surprise me is that our club doesn't offer any tuition at all. I'd love to have a couple of lessons from a decent player. Little things like a slightly wrong stance make a big difference to how you play.
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I had ideas of becoming a pro snooker player in my teenage years but a lack of anywhere to get lessons put paid to that idea. Serious practice was also very difficult because I played in a pub that only had one table.
 
We've two snooker tables in the bar but they are always being used and we have a team who,play in local league(s) I believe.

Just costs us a fortune taking them down and putting back up again for functions! I've probably played 2 frames on them in 4 years!
 
We've had s pool table for 2 or 3 years now, it's not always uncovered but is for times that the clubhouse is less busy
 
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