craigstardis1976
Head Pro
So why was this so prevalent in golf clubs?
The Club. 1994 Channel 4 Documentary.
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Bunkermagnet
Journeyman Pro
You tell me.
I' m just going on what was said in that program with the number of Masons to non masons making comittee, directors,Captain and chairmen at that club.
The Squirrel
Well-known member
Finally watched this through - really good!
The producers must have been overjoyed to get a character like Preston Lockwood on camera. He's razor-sharp and has no time for the absurdity of the people around him, the ridiculousness of the misogyny, pettiness of the personal politics and so on and dismantles it all brilliantly and disarmingly; all while wearing a shirt, tie, flat cap and PVC gimp jacket to play a round of golf. Brilliant! Also he's a great balance to the program that being stuck in attitudes many years out of date (even at the time it was filmed) is due to personal choice of thought, NOT simply inevitable with increasing age. He'd have been absolutely great to play with and have a pint with too - he's full of joy no matter how he's playing golf - a model for us all in that regard
The rest of the characters on film, the weird drinking wine rituals, self-importance, high-handedness of committees; all absurd to the point of hilarity. My very favourite bit was the guy speaking at the Ladies Lunch at 23 minutes, and thinks the ideal use of a lunch-club speech is to lecture the ladies section about how his wife has been upset FOR TWO YEARS because someone didn't give her some flowers at some other lunch function . That and the quote at 7 minutes. "A golf club is an opportunity for a disappointed man to achieve some kind of prominence". Let's be honest - even in 2025 I'll bet most clubs have the odd character like that....
The producers must have been overjoyed to get a character like Preston Lockwood on camera. He's razor-sharp and has no time for the absurdity of the people around him, the ridiculousness of the misogyny, pettiness of the personal politics and so on and dismantles it all brilliantly and disarmingly; all while wearing a shirt, tie, flat cap and PVC gimp jacket to play a round of golf. Brilliant! Also he's a great balance to the program that being stuck in attitudes many years out of date (even at the time it was filmed) is due to personal choice of thought, NOT simply inevitable with increasing age. He'd have been absolutely great to play with and have a pint with too - he's full of joy no matter how he's playing golf - a model for us all in that regard
The rest of the characters on film, the weird drinking wine rituals, self-importance, high-handedness of committees; all absurd to the point of hilarity. My very favourite bit was the guy speaking at the Ladies Lunch at 23 minutes, and thinks the ideal use of a lunch-club speech is to lecture the ladies section about how his wife has been upset FOR TWO YEARS because someone didn't give her some flowers at some other lunch function
. That and the quote at 7 minutes. "A golf club is an opportunity for a disappointed man to achieve some kind of prominence". Let's be honest - even in 2025 I'll bet most clubs have the odd character like that....cliveb
Head Pro
Indeed there are such people at golf clubs today.
Unfortunately we find a lot of them on the club's board of directors or heading up the various committees.
NearHull
Well-known member
That’s quite an insulting comment.
cliveb
Head Pro
Yes it is. Doesn't mean it's not true.
There are plenty of dedicated people who give up their time to help out their clubs, and I applaud them.
But there are also a lot of others who get themselves onto committees for their own self-aggrandisement.
BubbaP
Occasional Player of Golf
Watched it through recently. Not everyone came across poorly.
Would be interesting to learn how it came about. Expect the film crew were expecting to tease out some stereotyped views and couldn't believe their luck with what came through. Especially a disagreement and allowing that to all be filmed.
Preston was the star. Apparently the entire board resigned after.
www.independent.co.uk
Would be interesting to learn how it came about. Expect the film crew were expecting to tease out some stereotyped views and couldn't believe their luck with what came through. Especially a disagreement and allowing that to all be filmed.
Preston was the star. Apparently the entire board resigned after.
Golfers suffer trauma of TV
WELL-ADJUSTED men, who play golf as if it were just a game, were thin on the ground at Northwood Golf Club in suburban Middlesex last week. The members were in shock, still suffering the trauma of fly-on-the-wall television after the nation had viewed, laughed at and mocked the private lives of...
www.independent.co.uk
