Scott,
I hope you are enjoying Bonnie Doon as much as you did Deal?
As I've recently changed club...
What factors were most important to you?
- The course was already one of my favourites that I’d ever played.
- It combines great fun with a great challenge and has a good variety of style, setting and challenge of holes.
- Remote setting means its great to get away from it all.
- Some interesting heritage in the courses design.
- Also, my previous club was a large membership so I didn’t know as many people as I should have done, it was always busy, and it was run for the benefit of the owners, not the members, so a smaller membership with the club run for the members was critical.
What factors might have been important to others but didn't matter to you?
- The clubs reputation as the “place to be a member” in the area.
How high on the list of considerations was the quality of the course?
- Quality of the course over all other factors... Critical!
Was inviting guests a factor in relation to choosing a club of certain status/history?
- I'm wanting to say no, but after seeing the difference when mentioning that people were welcome to come to my old club "Where?" or where I've been a country member for several years and their eyes light up and say "That would be great!" it did factor a little. Also, I was more concerned with it being easy to get guests on. No restrictions, even on competition days.
If you were tossing up between two or more clubs, what made you choose your club over the other(s)?
- I knew guys who could propose and second me as well as a few others to throw in their support. But as I said before, its been a long time favourite.
How far were you happy to drive from your home or office to get to your "home" club (not talking about destinations or country/national memberships)?
- Its about 30 mins drive for me, but has been closer to 40 with traffic on a couple of occasions.. The others I was considering are 10, 40 and 45 mins drive away.
- Also, though its 30 mins from home, it’s pretty much the only one I could get to for a round after work in the summer.
Cheers,
James