Access to the courses

Hey President Doug Provis, are you there? Still trying to attract new members? A good place to start would be not to deny members access to the courses on weekends or to the non-cored course.

On Sunday 1 April, the North Course was blocked out for Women’s Pennant. At the same time, the vast majority of tee times on the South course had been pre-allocated to outside players – house guests and corporate groups. Too bad if a member wanted to play on Sunday morning.

Then on Tuesday 1 May, the North Course was blocked out again, this time for a Corporate Group. Members had to play on the South Course which had been cored the day before.

No one has a problem with one course being allocated to Pennant or cored, that’s just the way it works. But when that does occur, for Clayton’s sake, don’t fill up the other course with outside players. Once again, this shows that us members are just second class citizens at our own club compared to fee-paying outsiders.

The question I have, is this habit of filling up the courses with outsiders down to pure incompetence in club management, or a blatant disregard for member privileges? It’s got to be one or the other.