Tee Booking System

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Tee Booking System

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Val said:
Dinosaurs, i'll give you may not be right and i'll apologise for that but i stand by my thoughts that clubs who don't entertain it (and id discount your as it does have it) are not forward thinking and need to modernise, that is only my opinion.

What I will say about your place is that the mix of online and tip up and play appears to work well and that can only be good.
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So a club like mine introduces it, and a load of members leave. How is that forward thinking. Ok we don't know that will happen, but I am fairly sure we will not get any new members by introducing TBS. I know someone who has just joined that would not have done so if we had TBS. I am another that wouldn't have joined. Why rock the boat when the system we have works for the Club.:confused:

To me there is not a right or wrong system. Each Club needs to make their own choice, but if you introduce change expect a lot of resentment, and the possibility of losing members that you may not replace.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
We have noticed a trend recently where people were complaining of too many comps - every weekend having - including sat a d Sunday's so we have reduced our comps especially medals.

Next year there are more free Saturday's to allow General social golf
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That in itself is very interesting and probably worthy of a separate discussion, if my club cut down on comps i'd probably look at another club, i prefer comp golf to social golf, IMO its where your game gets tested more .
 
Val said:
That in itself is very interesting and probably worthy of a separate discussion, if my club cut down on comps i'd probably look at another club, i prefer comp golf to social golf, IMO its where your game gets tested more .
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It is worthy of another discussion - we have noticed that recently more are looking to just have a laugh with their mates without needing to worry about a comps
 
richart said:
So a club like mine introduces it, and a load of members leave. How is that forward thinking. Ok we don't know that will happen, but I am fairly sure we will not get any new members by introducing TBS. I know someone who has just joined that would not have done so if we had TBS. I am another that wouldn't have joined. Why rock the boat when the system we have works for the Club.:confused:

To me there is not a right or wrong system. Each Club needs to make their own choice, but if you introduce change expect a lot of resentment, and the possibility of losing members that you may not replace.
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My assumption (right or wrongly) that private clubs cannot make these changes without a vote from the members, if the membership was that vocal im certain there would be no change.

I agree with your last paragraph, if there is a good tip up and play system that works then it's not worth changing
 
Val said:
My assumption (right or wrongly) that private clubs cannot make these changes without a vote from the members, if the membership was that vocal im certain there would be no change.

I agree with your last paragraph, if there is a good tip up and play system that works then it's not worth changing
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We have a new management system in place, and I am sure TBS would have to be voted on before it could be introduced.

We had a vote last year on internal OB and abolishing it. Amazingly despite it being dangerous to abolish it, with players driving down the wrong fairway deliberately, even though you couldn't see players coming the other way, something like 35% voted in favour.:mad: Just proves a lot of members have no idea, and vote what suits them, rather than what is best for the Club.
 
I think there is a huge difference between booking for comps and general play, I'm happy to book online for all comps and choose a tee time that suits me on that given day but I don't want to book for general play!
 
Liverpoolphil said:
We have noticed a trend recently where people were complaining of too many comps - every weekend having - including sat a d Sunday's so we have reduced our comps especially medals.

Next year there are more free Saturday's to allow General social golf
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which is what I didnt check and dont like about my club- peak of the Golf season in July and there is 1, count them, ONE comp in the month- appalling but falls on deaf ears- the ones who want competitive golf have to travel and play other courses that month.
 
I've moved around a lot during my 46yrs golfing, think its 11 clubs. But for the sake of being reasonably current I'll use the last 4 as examples, all within the last 10 yrs.

Club a) No booking system apart from comps, membership reasonably small (by that I don't mean dwarfs). No problem getting on 90% of the time.
Club b) No booking system apart from comps, large membership, nightmare turning up evenings and Sundays.
Club c) No booking system apart from comps, reasonable size membership. Could be a problem getting on, especially in winter. Booking system adopted for Dec/Jan - works brilliantly.
Club d) Booking system, relatively small membership. Obviously booked tee times mean getting on isn't a problem, but equally turning up ad hoc and getting on isn't a problem 70% of the time.

Club d pretty much guarantees a time whenever I want. I'll take club d's system every time.
 
We don't have any booked tee times, other than the yearly 36 hole Champion of Champions comp, and then it's a very limited entry field with only a short 1st tee reservation. Having played at courses who do have booking times, I found it annoying and have no wish to play at a club which does have it all the time. Fortunately the swindle groups at our club are not cliques, or unaccomodating..in fact quite the opposite. We also don't get pay and plays or societies anytime at a weekend.
 
richart said:
Poll seems to confirm that nearly everyone has the system they are happy with :thup:
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Yep - so as a few people have said - systems suit what the members want and there is no right or wrong system
 
My biggest worry with online bookings for comps is that you may get the same groups playing together all the time which IMHO has a detrimental effect on clubs with some members never meeting and playing with other members and the more obviouse acquisitions getting banded about.

Do clubs have systems in place to stop this.
 
richart said:
Poll seems to confirm that nearly everyone has the system they are happy with :thup:
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Or that over time, people will always adapt and learn how best to utilize the system that is in place.. The thing that would appear to cause the most consternation is change.. :D
 
Old Skier said:
My biggest worry with online bookings for comps is that you may get the same groups playing together all the time which IMHO has a detrimental effect on clubs with some members never meeting and playing with other members and the more obviouse acquisitions getting banded about.

Do clubs have systems in place to stop this.
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Nothing in place to stop this as far as I'm aware and yes you can see the same 4 balls every week but also there is a lot of mixing and matching, this weekend will be playing with 7 members I've not played with before
 
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