Why can't I............ (part 2)

Getting changed in the car park is just plain scruffy. Don't do it, it makes the place look untidy.
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So does poor people parking in cars that arent brand new, or are dented or dirty or not German.

Why not have a rule that bans them. Certainly stop the car park from looking scruffy
 
Lol looks scruffy.. What does look scruffy is a handful of men huddled together smoking outside the bar exit. Someone changing their shoes?? I have changed my tshirt in a carpark before, does this mean I have pulled down the image of the club I was about to play at?
 
What is scruffy is half the club walking around the bar in socks after a round because they need to put their scores in the computer which is in the bar which they cannot enter in golf shoes.

Unless it is a dress code thing, surely banning golf shoes from the bar harks back to the days of steel spikes. With a slightly harder wearing carpet and soft spikes, sure any damage is nominal.

If I could go to the clubhouse, change my shoes then make use of the facilities once I had doen so then I would not change at my car.
 
We do allow soft spiked shoes in the bar in the summer when the course is dry. We found it entices players to stop after nine for a drink and we seem to get more people coming straight off the course into the bar. Obviously not a thing to do in winter.

Not sure why you'd put the computer in the bar (although Sand Martins have theirs in the bar too) when the changing room seems a more logical place
 
Most clubs have the same sign but no-one pays much attention although it seems the one off time you are running late and dare to put the golf shoes in the car park is the one time Mr I'm a stickler for rules is there and will give you chapter and verse on your heinous crime against the club and golf. I find this sort of positive pep talk does wonders for my opening drive
 
I really can't see what is so scruffy about taking your shoes off at your car and changing them.

I've just played Rockcliffe Hall today and it's a seriously nice place, 5 star hotel, michelin star restaurant and what you might class as an upmarket golf course. And they are fine with you changing your shoes,clothing in the car park and have a spikes bar that is so plush it would put most top restaurants to shame. It's nice to go somewhere that is so upmarket but dosen't have stuffy old fashioned rules that makes you feel like you have to watch every step incase you upset somebody.

I'm all for good etiquette at golf clubs but they shouldn't make you feel unwelcome or like you don't belong there because you may come from a diffrent background.
 
Being devils advocate here :

1) when you played football / cricket etc did you get chnaged in the car park

2) when you go swiming do you wip your speedos on in the car park

3) If you go ice skating to go to the rink and put your blades on in the car park ?

etc etc etc

:)
 
You know those signs "No changing in the car park" "By order of the committee" ?
Well when I was a lad I thought that was from the local authority, and that in reality no one would really care too much.
21 years on on one has ever stopped me changing my shoes in the car park.
Come on. It really is not that bad!
 
Big club near me - Mentmore - used to have a sign up saying "Golfers found changing their shoes in the Car Park will be forcebly removed from the Course"
Not sure if it's still there.....
 
If I'm changing clothes I'll do the whole lot in the changing rooms, but if it's shoes only then it's the car park.

Only ever played at one place where I was aware of a 'no changing shoes in the car park' rule. I got in the back seat of my car and changed them there.

For the clubs that say it's to get people in the bar, do they want us to make a 3rd trip to the car to put our shoes away and then go back to the bar, or are they expecting 50 people carrying a pair of shoes that have just been taken off after walking 4 miles in them until they go home?
 
I have played at some of Scotland's most prestigeous golf courses (St Andrews, Gleneagles, Kingsbarns, Carnoustie etc.) and I have always changed my shoes in the car park, along with everyone else.
I don't see what the problem is. At home I take my shoes off outside before going in.
 
Only ever played at one place where I was aware of a 'no changing shoes in the car park' rule. I got in the back seat of my car and changed them there.
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Wonder what they could do if you actually sat in your car and changed your shoes? Technically you are in the car park but you are in the confindes of your own car so i doubt they could do anything?
 
You can't change your shoes in the car park??!!

What the f.......??!!

I've heard it all now,is this a Suvverners thing then?

I have a lifetime locker,aint used it since I was a young'un and I change my shoes at my car and it never stops me going in and spending cash in the clubhouse... :D
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Ditto ,thats why your fees are so feckin high, we change our shoes in the car park then go into the club for a couple of swallys and some lunch,because you dont spend money in the club
 
I always ignore such stupid rules and have never been asked to leave yet. Same with mobiles (on silent obviously as that is common courtesey) but it works both ways.... if you don't treat me like a child I'll behave like a grown up.
 
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