What's the most 'snobbyness' you've experienced at a club?

I also regularly use Teeofftimes.co.uk to book my green fees. It's a great website and you can some seriously good deals.

Whenever we book at Reigate Hill GC, the old prat in the Pro Shop changes the time (the club reserve the right to change the time up to half an hour, and Teeofftimes will accept on your behalf).

So regardless of when we book - last time was 11.04, he changed it to 11.34. We got there early anyway to warm up and wander round the shop, headed up to the tee at 11 and guess what - not a soul ready to tee off for the next 20 minutes. Ended up teeing off at 20 past. He's a complete prat.

Reigate Hill is also the only other course that require sight of the email confirmation from TOT when you get there. Booked probably 15 different courses and they've got us all booked in - but Reigate seem to have a problem with it!
 
ger147 said:
Shorts should deffo be banned. Grown men in shorts who are not at their work on a football or rugby pitch or equivalent is just wrong. :)
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Mmmm always shorts, I've only worn trousers for golf once in the last three years but I understand the different climatic perspective and its mostly trousers where you are

What is that saying... Its aye cauld in Cumbernauld ;)
 
Slab said:
Mmmm always shorts, I've only worn trousers for golf once in the last three years but I understand the different climatic perspective and its mostly trousers where you are

What is that saying... Its aye cauld in Cumbernauld ;)
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Not sure what the Met Office weather warning says for this weekend, but it certainly won't be shorts weather :)
 
SHiiBBZ said:
I also regularly use Teeofftimes.co.uk to book my green fees. It's a great website and you can some seriously good deals.

Whenever we book at Reigate Hill GC, the old prat in the Pro Shop changes the time (the club reserve the right to change the time up to half an hour, and Teeofftimes will accept on your behalf).

So regardless of when we book - last time was 11.04, he changed it to 11.34. We got there early anyway to warm up and wander round the shop, headed up to the tee at 11 and guess what - not a soul ready to tee off for the next 20 minutes. Ended up teeing off at 20 past. He's a complete prat.

Reigate Hill is also the only other course that require sight of the email confirmation from TOT when you get there. Booked probably 15 different courses and they've got us all booked in - but Reigate seem to have a problem with it!
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At the minute, booking direct with Reigate Hill has been cheaper than Tee Off Times. I've paid £15 the last few rounds at Reigate, and been quoted £17.50 on Tee Off Times, and you can get a morning tee time!
 
Slab said:
Pretty sure with trousers you can wear My Little Pony socks if you want

I think the earlier point related to socks with shorts :)
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Ruffian....i've spilt pimms over my cravat now :angry:
My butler is sending an e-mail to your club director to have you lashed at dawn on the first tee.





:D
 
IMO most of the 'snobbery' complaints I've just read aren't really anything to do with snobbery - more to do with members and club reps seeking adherence to club rules around such dress code or playing formats. The only time I have encountered what I see as 'true' snobbery is when I was looking to join a well know Hampshire Club I asked to be put on the waiting list - membership being full - to be asked if I new any members and when I said that I didn't I was told rather snootily that that was not possible as membership was by invitation only - and I couldn't just put my name down on the waiting list. Needless to say I haven't bothered much with that club since.

Where I tend to see aspects of snobbery in golf clubs - and one of the things that I think could put prospective members off joining a club - or indeed folk actually starting playing the game - is the obsession that many golfers and the magazines have with equipment - and with individuals that obsession can often become rather snobbish and bragging in it's nature - both dismissive of certain brands and older clubs, and talking endlessly about the new stuff they've bought and how much better it is - blah blah blah.

Perhaps it is in the nature of many golfers, and maybe it's just part of 'todays golf', but I think this obsession amongst the general golfer and golfing community is a relatively new development (starting in the 80s?) and I don't actually think it's a very attractive trait as it could look to the outsider and from the outside of golf as 'money talking' and 'snobbery'.

Just a thought.
 
I was told by the starter at Muirfield that he didn't "appreciate" my putter cover. It was white with green shamrocks. Unsure if he was a snob or just a bigot...or a snobby bigot. I subsequently marked my ball in front of him...with a shamrock.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
IMO most of the 'snobbery' complaints I've just read aren't really anything to do with snobbery - more to do with members and club reps seeking adherence to club rules around such dress code or playing formats. The only time I have encountered what I see as 'true' snobbery is when I was looking to join a well know Hampshire Club I asked to be put on the waiting list - membership being full - to be asked if I new any members and when I said that I didn't I was told rather snootily that that was not possible as membership was by invitation only - and I couldn't just put my name down on the waiting list. Needless to say I haven't bothered much with that club since.

Where I tend to see aspects of snobbery in golf clubs - and one of the things that I think could put prospective members off joining a club - or indeed folk actually starting playing the game - is the obsession that many golfers and the magazines have with equipment - and with individuals that obsession can often become rather snobbish and bragging in it's nature - both dismissive of certain brands and older clubs, and talking endlessly about the new stuff they've bought and how much better it is - blah blah blah.

Perhaps it is in the nature of many golfers, and maybe it's just part of 'todays golf', but I think this obsession amongst the general golfer and golfing community is a relatively new development (starting in the 80s?) and I don't actually think it's a very attractive trait as it could look to the outsider and from the outside of golf as 'money talking' and 'snobbery'.

Just a thought.
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Hope you are not talking about my Club.:whistle: Sounds like one that is in the GM top 100 courses.:ooo:
 
ger147 said:
Shorts should deffo be banned. Grown men in shorts who are not at their work on a football or rugby pitch or equivalent is just wrong. :)
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I'll caveat that with 'on the golf course' and 'for men only' and 'women who look like men' :eek:

we had a 24 year old babe who wore shorts on hot days, you could tell what hole she was on when you saw male members just standing on a fairway staring :rofl:
 
RAC club at Epson before the equality legislation. Husband was a member.

We turn up at first tee to be paired up with two other (unknown) members.
"Where's the Ladies tee? " I ask.
"You're standing on it" came the reply ie there wasn't one.

Afterwards- a very hot day, I was told that as a LADY, I was not allowed in the spike bar for a drink, but if I would change my shoes, I could get a "nice cup of tea" in the Lounge.
I wanted a pint of lager...
 
Having moved to an area where I didn't know anyone who played golf, I had a look at the EGU website to see if there were any clubs in the area that had vacancies. Went to visit one and introduced myself to the secretary and explained my circumstances and mentioned that I understood there may be membership vacancies. The response was "Well, you don't want to believe everything you read on the internet." When I continued the next gambit was "Well we do have a handicap limit; do you think you could play to a handicap of 24?" I responded that as the society I currently played in had me off 8, I probably could, then made my excuses and left.

In hindsight, I should thank him; I went back a few years later and played the course, found it thoroughly overrated.
 
I wasn't involved personally but a friend was a visitor at my club with another member, 3 of them played and their wives and young children joined them on the balcony for a drink after the game. Some long standing members were heard muttering "they'll be letting animals in next" so they left and spent their cash elsewhere, personally I'd have punched his lights out.

I've found snobbery to be inverse to a clubs status, I've come across lots of small minded pettiness at some pretty average courses, but without doubt the friendliest, least pretentious club in my area is Royal Liverpool (Holylake). Played as a visitor and for a short period as a member and the effort made to make visitors feel welcome is fantastic
 
colint said:
I wasn't involved personally but a friend was a visitor at my club with another member, 3 of them played and their wives and young children joined them on the balcony for a drink after the game. Some long standing members were heard muttering "they'll be letting animals in next" so they left and spent their cash elsewhere, personally I'd have punched his lights out.

I've found snobbery to be inverse to a clubs status, I've come across lots of small minded pettiness at some pretty average courses, but without doubt the friendliest, least pretentious club in my area is Royal Liverpool (Holylake). Played as a visitor and for a short period as a member and the effort made to make visitors feel welcome is fantastic
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My experience is exactly the same. The friendliest and warmest welcome I get as a visitor is when I go to Turnberry.
 
Crawfy said:
I was told by the starter at Muirfield that he didn't "appreciate" my putter cover. It was white with green shamrocks. Unsure if he was a snob or just a bigot...or a snobby bigot. I subsequently marked my ball in front of him...with a shamrock.
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He really wouldn't want to see me rocking up to the first tee then :rofl:
 
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