Reply to: Hoo hah at Wentworth Golf Club

[darmstadt]

Maybe this golfer, who seems to be lost, might be able to help

[billybiro]

Right. Even allowing for the fact that you don't move in the golfing circles to which I belong and are therefore not privy to the Paul Casey Golf proposals your comment is still a bloody disgrace.

Item: Just turn what you said on its head and imagine it was an inner city public play area that had been sold off to Chinese developers and all those poor children, many of them from ethnic backgrounds, now had to travel a few miles to kick a ball around.

The wailing and gnashing of teeth wouldn't stop. And I'd be in line to condemn it too.

But, oh no, something that inconveniences a bunch of rich, sexist old men in flash cars is something to gloat over. Well check your prejudice pal - they ain't all white and they ain't all male. Derek Griffiths (RIP) was a member and Kenny Lynch still is a member. And so is that Asian woman who reads the news on BBC Television but I can't spell her name.

For your sake, I can only hope you piss off to Venezuela (where they have a penchant for building houses for poor people on golf courses) before I take a nine iron to your goolies.

You're a bloody disgrace.

You want some sympathy? Here you go...



Playing just for the over-privileged golfers.

[original PM]

I don't have the time these days to play (or to waste £150+ to play a round), but I still like trips to a driving range, where I can take my stress out on the balls.

I think that's being covered in another thread?

[WTFH]

I do but that's a whole other story.

I live near 3 golf courses and a training course.

The only people I've ever seen on the golf courses are old men. Are they rich? Well considering the fees very likely. The training course is next to other sports courts and they make it cheap enough for anyone to learn to play. Unfortunately it seems people would rather play tennis and football then learn how to play golf.

I don't have the time these days to play (or to waste £150+ to play a round), but I still like trips to a driving range, where I can take my stress out on the balls.

[washed up contractor]

Bigot!


Discriminating against those poor rich folk who couldn't come up with some way to save their golf course. I guess they need to learn from those poor council estate scrotes who campaign to stop their houses being knocked down....

Alright pet, who you calling a bigot?

[SueEllen]

Well, Im all cut up about a few wealthy nobs having a hissy fit over a golf club.

Bigot!


Discriminating against those poor rich folk who couldn't come up with some way to save their golf course. I guess they need to learn from those poor council estate scrotes who campaign to stop their houses being knocked down....

[SueEllen]

Again, you can barely disguise your prejudice.

Your ageist and sexist comment no doubt stems from your misconception of people who are members of golf clubs being the nineteenth hole boors of yesteryear.

As for the rich part, I bet you don't have any problem with all those rich, lefty, metropolitan blowhards who pay £5k to stay in a tipi for a weekend each year at the Glastonbury festival.

I do but that's a whole other story.

I live near 3 golf courses and a training course.

The only people I've ever seen on the golf courses are old men. Are they rich? Well considering the fees very likely. The training course is next to other sports courts and they make it cheap enough for anyone to learn to play. Unfortunately it seems people would rather play tennis and football then learn how to play golf.

[washed up contractor]

I think we should have a whip round for them.

Or a whip round their backs.

I think Ive got a spare paper clip or two somewhere I could drop in the collection bag!

[BrilloPad]

Well, Im all cut up about a few wealthy nobs having a hissy fit over a golf club.

I think we should have a whip round for them.

Or a whip round their backs.

[washed up contractor]

Well, Im all cut up about a few wealthy nobs having a hissy fit over a golf club.

[Big Blue Plymouth]

I'll try again, you seem to be missing the point.

The whole country has been and is still being asset stripped

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FTFY

[MrMarkyMark]

Again, you can barely disguise your prejudice.

Your ageist and sexist comment no doubt stems from your misconception of people who are members of golf clubs being the nineteenth hole boors of yesteryear.

As for the rich part, I bet you don't have any problem with all those rich, lefty, metropolitan blowhards who pay £5k to stay in a tipi for a weekend each year at the Glastonbury festival.

I'll try again, you seem to be missing the point.

The whole country has been and is still being sold from under our feet.

The fact a privileged few, who could afford £8K a year, have lost their privately owned golf club is of very little interest/consequence in comparison to other publicly owned assets already sold off.

[shaunbhoy]

Again, you can barely disguise your prejudice.

When you get to know SE a bit better, you will find that the notion of a "disguise" is fanciful codswallop.

She is the archetypal handwringing latte-slurping tofu-munching metropolitan mealy-mouthed feminist windbag. All IMHO of course, but I try not to fly in the face of public opinion.

[original PM]

Again, you can barely disguise your prejudice.

Your ageist and sexist comment no doubt stems from your misconception of people who are members of golf clubs being the nineteenth hole boors of yesteryear.

As for the rich part, I bet you don't have any problem with all those rich, lefty, metropolitan blowhards who pay £5k to stay in a tipi* for a weekend each year at the Glastonbury festival.

Sp teepee

But it's true - it is fine to discriminate against those perceived as privileged

[Pip in a Poke]

Your analogy is tulip.

Rich old men can afford and are able to play golf elsewhere.

However poor children are too young to be mobile on their own, and even if they could move around on their own do not have the economy means to.

This is why no-one gives a tulip about a golf course as it isn't a place of special historical or scientific interest.

Again, you can barely disguise your prejudice.

Your ageist and sexist comment no doubt stems from your misconception of people who are members of golf clubs being the nineteenth hole boors of yesteryear.

As for the rich part, I bet you don't have any problem with all those rich, lefty, metropolitan blowhards who pay £5k to stay in a tipi for a weekend each year at the Glastonbury festival.