What constitutes a "golf club"?

[Chris Hughes]

If a claim of "we are a golf club" is made...


...what are you looking for to confirm or deny said claim?

[John Kavanaugh]

18 holes and no pickleball.

[Wayne_Kozun]

18 holes and no pickleball.

So Augusta and Merion don't qualify?

[John Handley]

Golf is the focus.  There is a difference between country clubs and golf clubs.

[Matt_Cohn]

Is the answer as simple as the existence or non-existence of social memberships?

[Chris Hughes]

Is the answer as simple as the existence or non-existence of social memberships?

!!!

[Carl Johnson]

Is the answer as simple as the existence or non-existence of social memberships?

Matt, that's a great tell.  I'd say it's a little more complicated, but for one factor it's hard to think of a better one.  More later.

[John Kavanaugh]

18 holes and no pickleball.

So Augusta and Merion don't qualify?

If they have Pickleball then no.

[Richard Fisher]

Suspect the guiding presumptions here are North American, but in the UK the large majority of golf clubs will have cohorts of ‘house’ or ‘social’ members, often comprising those too elderly now to play golf actively but still keen to meet up with their golfing friends for lunch and a drink. This would apply to most of Ran’s 147 ‘stewards’ that are UK-based. Most of them would run a mile at being described as ‘Country Clubs’…

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