What do you look for?

[bobmac]

Ok, you're thinking about visiting a golf course you've never played before.
What's the first thing you do?
Look at their web site.
I personally look for pictures of the course, cost of green fee and Pro shop (just in case I know him/her)

What do you look for and does your club's web site do your course justice?

Last web site rant
Clubs that have made the effort and provided pictures of the club but they are full of OAPs being dragged around by leccy trolleys or a clubhouse full of blue rinses playing whist. Not a good way to attract the youth

P.S.Why do club's web sites have secret areas that need a password? What's so secret?

 

[Smiffy]

Pictures of the course.
If it looks a nice, well established, tree line oned, nicely manicured it will get my interest.
I will then look at the cost of green fees.

If I see a load of staked trees, marker posts or pictures of four grannies putting I tend to lose interest

 

[bobmac]

If I see a load of pictures of womens fourballs I tend to lose interest

Me too actually

 

[StrangelyBrown]

P.S.Why do club's web sites have secret areas that need a password? What's so secret?

I could tell you, but then i'd have to kill you.

 

[Smiffy]

If I see a load of pictures of womens fourballs I tend to lose interest

Me too actually

I edited my post to say "four grannies" rather than "womens fourballs" Bob as I didn't want to appear sexist.
Because that's the last thing I am. Honestly.

Women have their place at a golf club.

Ideally the ones with the big funbags behind the bar and the ugly ones in the kitchen, out of harms way.

 

[Sam]

Hard to believe that Smiffy works for Equal Opps Commission

 

[grumpyjock]

And is a fully paid up member of the LBGT forum.

 

[Smiffy]

Yeah but both of those posts are part time and voluntary

 

[Paul_Stewart]

a clubhouse full of blue rinses playing whist.

Homer regards that as a chance to go on the pull (eh Martin?)

 

[TWM]

Last web site rant
Clubs that have made the effort and provided pictures of the club but they are full of OAPs being dragged around by leccy trolleys or a clubhouse full of blue rinses playing whist. Not a good way to attract the youth

You have provided this 77yr old with a reason not to visit your club. I can get a friendly welcome elsewhere.

 

[HRC99]

Good information on the course. Scorecard and photos of as many holes as possible. Photos of a couple of holes only is not normally a good sign as they're probably the only decent ones on the track.

 

[Spoff]

Green fee first, then pics of the course.

Smiffy

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Good pictures of the course is my forst priority - my clubs photos don't look good as they are quite old, so the trees are smaller and the fairways less well managed.

 

[USER1999]

Don't often bother, as most golf club web sites are pants.

A couple of photos, overall yardage, the date the course was designed, and a post code for my sat nav.

I prefer to search online for reviews, you get a much better image in your head. If a course is described as a goat track, then you know it is going to be rubbish.

 

[bobmac]

Last web site rant
Clubs that have made the effort and provided pictures of the club but they are full of OAPs being dragged around by leccy trolleys or a clubhouse full of blue rinses playing whist. Not a good way to attract the youth

You have provided this 77yr old with a reason not to visit your club. I can get a friendly welcome elsewhere.

Apologies.
I didn't mean to say that the seniors aren't welcome, of course they are, it's just that if the club's web site doesn't show any juniors playing the course they will tend to go elswhere.

 

[brendy]

The private area will have competition results, Minutes from AGMs etc. Basically information that only paying members need to see.

Ok, you're thinking about visiting a golf course you've never played before.
What's the first thing you do?
Look at their web site.
I personally look for pictures of the course, cost of green fee and Pro shop (just in case I know him/her)

What do you look for and does your club's web site do your course justice?

Last web site rant
Clubs that have made the effort and provided pictures of the club but they are full of OAPs being dragged around by leccy trolleys or a clubhouse full of blue rinses playing whist. Not a good way to attract the youth

P.S.Why do club's web sites have secret areas that need a password? What's so secret?

 

[USER1999]

Some members areas also allow you to book tee times.

 

[Putting_Green_Pro]

Last web site rant
Clubs that have made the effort and provided pictures of the club but they are full of OAPs being dragged around by leccy trolleys or a clubhouse full of blue rinses playing whist. Not a good way to attract the youth

You have provided this 77yr old with a reason not to visit your club. I can get a friendly welcome elsewhere.

Apologies.
I didn't mean to say that the seniors aren't welcome, of course they are, it's just that if the club's web site doesn't show any juniors playing the course they will tend to go elswhere.

I think the reason a lot of seniors are shown playing the course is because the photographer is likely to work Mon-Fri when the juniors are at school. Unless it is summer holiday/Easter etc then i would doubt to see any juniors on a website. plus some over protective parent would say it is paedophila so photographing senior is just easier

 

[Fyldewhite]

Got loads of grief off a mate when I included a picture looking back at our clubhouse which included him walking up the first fairway as all the lads were saying "who's that fat b******" etc. What I didn't tell him was that I had stretched the photo by about 10% to make it fit

 

[brendy]

plus some over protective parent would say it is paedophila so photographing senior is just easier

I suppose it takes all sorts to go onto a golf website and fantasise over a 14 year old guy in his golf gear?

Id say it is more likely to be because the majority of members in every club are 40+ (in my book pretty much dottery old pensioners! )