Golf Clubs and Concentration camps

[DodgyAgent]

Sorry, completely disagree.

Golf is a great game and so much good has come out of the game as a social institution. My side and I , for instance, met over a blind fourball at a local club.

Your views are very blinkered. Have a read of Peter Alliss' A Golfer's Travels and you may change your mind.

I am not going to disagree with you. It is a tremendous game that can be played competitively between two people of totally different levels of ability. The problem I have is with the golf club members "little hitler" attitudes. These clubs are dominated by old people who can hear a mobile phone conversation a mile away even though most of them own up to being half deaf. These same people can spot a wrong colour sock from hundreds of yards, again whilst being half blind.
Golf (particularly in the UK) is dominated by the wrong people.

[oracleslave]

Golf (particularly in the UK) is dominated by the wrong people.

As in people that know and follow rules of THEIR club in which you are an (un)invited guest?

[Mich the Tester]

As in people that know and follow rules of THEIR club in which you are an (un)invited guest?

Yes, herr Obersturmbannführer.

[BrilloPad]

If you don't like the rules take your custom elsewhere. Bedwetter.

[DodgyAgent]

As in people that know and follow rules of THEIR club in which you are an (un)invited guest?

They can do what they like just as I can say what I like.

[oracleslave]

If you don't like the rules take your custom elsewhere. Bedwetter.

WHS ++

[sasguru]

Golf is, and will always be, for twunts.

HTH

[Malcolm Buggeridge]

Golf is, and will always be, for twunts.

HTH

Hmmm... twunts...

..Jack Nicklaus? Tiger Woods? Nick Faldo? Greg Norman? Ian Woosnam? Gary Player? Lee Trevino?

Some of the greatest sportsmen the world has ever seen in that list. Household names to a man.

Twunts, I think not.

[NotAllThere]

The police are trained to prosecute people without humiliating them.

The police aren't trained to prosecute anyone.

Your golf club woes are simply Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy in action.

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.

[sasguru]

Hmmm... twunts...

..Jack Nicklaus? Tiger Woods? Nick Faldo? Greg Norman? Ian Woosnam? Gary Player? Lee Trevino?

Some of the greatest sportsmen the world has ever seen in that list. Household names to a man.

Twunts, I think not.

Does being a household name preclude someone fronm being a twunt?
I would argue that the vast majority of household names are, in fact, twunts of the first order.
And also some non-household names, like yourself.