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Me and my FC would leave the club after reading that
We all decided to walk off today...
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cookelad
Tour Winner
Sounds like they don't need your money, daft sort of time to be pulling a stunt like that as a lot of course membership fees fall due in a little over 2 months and people start looking round for pastures new!
bobmac
Major Champion
Why would you all want to leave the club because of an email one person wrote?
Find out who wrote the email and report him/her higher up and get him/her removed from their position.
Then get back to the golf.
Find out who wrote the email and report him/her higher up and get him/her removed from their position.
Then get back to the golf.
chrisd
Major Champion
I might be tempted to ask, if no one on the committee is empowered to call the players off in a competition, why are they getting involved in asking players NOT to walk in surely it's not in their power to do that either?
chellie
Tour Winner
In_The_Rough
Tour Winner
Probably because it is in the club rule book. But like you say who does have the final say it would appear in this case it is more than a bit ambiguous.
Foxholer
Blackballed
Supposedly - by the 'Signature', it was from 'The Committee'.
Indeed, sacking whoever sent it - or 'The Committee' - does seem a good idea!
Do you really want to belong to a Club where 'The Committee' makes that sort of ruling?
Good point, but they'd probably argue that it doesn't need to be stated - unless Club Staff close the course or suspend the comp, you MUST continue. Wrong imo, but.....
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bobmac
Major Champion
I know, I read that.
But I still suspect it was written by one person hiding behind the 'committee'
richart
Major Champion
Wouldn't bother me, just ignore it and get on with your golf. I know I would not get such a letter from our committee, but if you did, would you jack in your membership, and find another club that may not have as good a course, may not be as convenient, possibly pay a joining fee, increased subs, just because you don't like the tone of a standard letter sent out to members. I think people cut of their noses to spite the faces way too quickly.
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
The old anchovies in the locker routine should be vengeance enough.....
all suggestions made in this post should not be acted upon by any sane person
all suggestions made in this post should not be acted upon by any sane person
Foxholer
Blackballed
Well, it wasn't a 'standard' letter!
And Yes, there are other things to consider.
I too believe it's likely to be from a single person, who may have authority in certain areas, but by signing it that way, they are stating they are acting for 'The Committee'! A neutrally worded 'are you aware?'# reply/forward(/Appeal?) to The Captain, might clarify - and might instigate an amendment!
Green Bay Hacker
Journeyman Pro
Thankfully I have never come across any of these pompous idiots in my golfing travels. I don't think I could have left the course without asking what his problem was and the email is a complete joke. My membership would be coming to an end asap if there were alternative courses nearby but I would also be asking whose authority was given for the email to be issued. If the committee backed up the sender I would ask them if the insurance company were aware of the conditions they were forcing people to stay out in.
BTatHome
Tour Winner
Can't see what all the fuss is about.
upsidedown
Tour Winner
Storm in a tea cup....
richart
Major Champion
I should have used the term 'blanket' not standard.
My point is still valid. Leave a club you may love, because someone sends out such a letter. You may join another club and then be asked to let the Captain play through. People need to chill out more.fenwayrich
Assistant Pro
Committees are strange groups, usually comprising very disparate people. Most are decent folk who do the best they can without great reward, but there are always a couple of buffoons who see themselves as vitally important to the running of the club, whereas they could easily be jettisoned. The latter are usually sad individuals who have little else to do with their lives, so they blow up every little incident to increase their self perceived importance.
If it were me I would treat the whole thing with the contempt it deserves. I might have a word with one of the 'good guys', who probably thinks that the bloke who reported you is as big an idiot as you do, but I wouldn't be leaving the club on account of it. It will all blow over soon enough.
If it were me I would treat the whole thing with the contempt it deserves. I might have a word with one of the 'good guys', who probably thinks that the bloke who reported you is as big an idiot as you do, but I wouldn't be leaving the club on account of it. It will all blow over soon enough.
Foxholer
Blackballed
That's certainly seems a pretty accurate description to me!
My point is still valid. Leave a club you may love, because someone sends out such a letter. You may join another club and then be asked to let the Captain play through.
And I was by no means suggesting this merited resignation - though it's 1 possible consequence. However, if decisions and communications like that were being made regularly and overtly, it would certainly count against other 'positive' features. Not the right culture for me - though bearable occasionally. 'Committee Stupidity' was certainly a factor (not the only one) why I chose not to rejoin a previous club, but joined an alternative, when I returned from Scotland!
Leftie
Tour Winner
backwoodsman
Tour Winner
I'm not commenting on the specific email sent out, but I find it bizarre that there seems to be a widespread belief that committees and committee members are acting in isolation. At ours, the committees are members acting on behalf of all the other members and any club rules & reg's would be, or have been, voted on by the members.Is that not true elsewhere? So if we had a rule about walking in, (but am darn sure we don't) it would have been the wish of the membership that it was there. If you're breaking a rule, is it not fair that it's pointed out?
However, tone and attitude are other things entirely, and if I received one that I thought was too sniffy or condescending, then the writer would have it pointed out rather smartish...
However, tone and attitude are other things entirely, and if I received one that I thought was too sniffy or condescending, then the writer would have it pointed out rather smartish...
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Snelly
Guest
I cannot see what the big deal is about that email.
The committee don't want people to walk off the course in the middle of a competition. Fair enough I suppose. In future, either heed their advice or don't.
I would not give this the slightest concern and cannot understand why some of you are so vexed about it.
Additionally, I quite like the irony of someone saying the club are guilty of treating the members like toddlers when the reaction of plenty of you to this email is the golf club communication equivalent of stomping up to your room and tearing up your comics!
The committee don't want people to walk off the course in the middle of a competition. Fair enough I suppose. In future, either heed their advice or don't.
I would not give this the slightest concern and cannot understand why some of you are so vexed about it.
Additionally, I quite like the irony of someone saying the club are guilty of treating the members like toddlers when the reaction of plenty of you to this email is the golf club communication equivalent of stomping up to your room and tearing up your comics!
