[Mark Chaplin]

Sherbet Lemons now they are proper sweets.

Baby Buda result;

After 6 holes at Rye the heavens opened so we retired for proper lunch and decided the match format under the Duckworth-Kummel method.
At one stage Scott was finishing a glass of water while I had a coffee, glass of red and a kummel in the line up! Fortified with water Scott came flying out of lunch to win the next two holes to get it back to 4 down. Fortunately I held out for the win but as always golf and friendship won out in the end.

[Scott Warren]

What Mr Chaplin forgets to mention is that while I started the lunchtime session with a full-strength pint, he opted for a girly shandy, and his glass of wine was his second drink, which he sipped very slowly, making it last much longer than my second pint, which was polished off between the gammon and the plum sponge.

But to his credit he did drink more of the kummel than I, and did quite comprehensively kick my Aussie arse, buoyed by his *cough* 12 handicap *cough*!

[James Bennett]

I thought that perhaps Chappers had been using those Taverner sweets to help polish his golf balls, producing some reverse swing that managed to straighten out any hooks and slices with a latter flight 'reverse'.

Wouldn't put it past him Scott.  Check his pockets for sweets.

James B

[Scott Warren]

Now you mention it, James, there was some late swing on a few putts that dropped... but the truth is he had me covered today handicap or no handicap.

[ed_getka]

John,
   Thanks for sharing the pix and reminding me that I need to get back over there. You should get the Anthony Edgeworth books if you don't already have them. Very much in the spirit of what you were trying to do here.

[John Mayhugh]

One other thing that I really enjoyed seeing at Deal - the suggestion book.  This is a ledger where members write suggestions and the club captain or secretary responds in writing.  It's quite civil and and sometimes the responses are very entertaining.

Mark Chaplin told me about a book of suggestions from different clubs that had been published and I managed to track a copy down.  Reading it has been a lot of fun and in some ways makes me feel like I'm back over there again.  For anyone interested, it's titled "The Golf Club Suggestion Book" by Duncan Ferguson & John Wilson.

Here are a couple from Royal Cinque Ports (response in italics):

That a mowing machine be used instead of a scythe.  (from 1904)
Noted.

16 December 1967.  It is suggested that, as the Committee are against placing wire netting just beneath the water surface on the first hole's water hazard, they do ensure that a 'scoop' is always present so that members may retrieve their balls.  These valuable effects are expensive enough as it is, so it is infuriating to have no means of retrieving the wayward sphere.
Noted.  The Committee suggest an old ball be used or a start made at the second hole!

6 July 1991.  Could the Captain and Committee consider restoring the supply of cherries for our Pimms?  -- the lack of which is sorely missed.
After two hours of deliberation and a secret ballot in July 1991, the Committee voted by a narrow majority to agree to this very important request.


From Rye, with no response:
That the younger members of the club whose length of hair makes one question their sex either get it cut or refrain from using the gentlemen's changing room since considerable embarassment is caused to other members.

From Royal St. Georges:
The dog situation on the course at weekends has now reached epidemic proportions.  If owners are unable to train their dogs so that they stay with the match in which their owner is participating, may I suggest that they should be kept on a lead.  Yesterday, play in my game was interrupted by a case of rape on the 3rd green, indecent assault on the 12th, and a damn good fight on the 15th.  As far as I know none of the dogs had paid a green fee.
Well-behaved dogs have always been welcome except on competition days.  Poorly behaved or immoral ones should be reported to the Secretary.

The suggestion book - a clear sign of a proper golf club.

[Bill_McBride]

One other thing that I really enjoyed seeing at Deal - the suggestion book.  This is a ledger where members write suggestions and the club captain or secretary responds in writing.  It's quite civil and and sometimes the responses are very entertaining.

Mark Chaplin told me about a book of suggestions from different clubs that had been published and I managed to track a copy down.  Reading it has been a lot of fun and in some ways makes me feel like I'm back over there again.  For anyone interested, it's titled "The Golf Club Suggestion Book" by Duncan Ferguson & John Wilson.

Here are a couple from Royal Cinque Ports (response in italics):

That a mowing machine be used instead of a scythe.  (from 1904)
Noted.

16 December 1967.  It is suggested that, as the Committee are against placing wire netting just beneath the water surface on the first hole's water hazard, they do ensure that a 'scoop' is always present so that members may retrieve their balls.  These valuable effects are expensive enough as it is, so it is infuriating to have no means of retrieving the wayward sphere.
Noted.  The Committee suggest an old ball be used or a start made at the second hole!

6 July 1991.  Could the Captain and Committee consider restoring the supply of cherries for our Pimms?  -- the lack of which is sorely missed.
After two hours of deliberation and a secret ballot in July 1991, the Committee voted by a narrow majority to agree to this very important request.


From Rye, with no response:
That the younger members of the club whose length of hair makes one question their sex either get it cut or refrain from using the gentlemen's changing room since considerable embarassment is caused to other members.

From Royal St. Georges:
The dog situation on the course at weekends has now reached epidemic proportions.  If owners are unable to train their dogs so that they stay with the match in which their owner is participating, may I suggest that they should be kept on a lead.  Yesterday, play in my game was interrupted by a case of rape on the 3rd green, indecent assault on the 12th, and a damn good fight on the 15th.  As far as I know none of the dogs had paid a green fee.
Well-behaved dogs have always been welcome except on competition days.  Poorly behaved or immoral ones should be reported to the Secretary.

The suggestion book - a clear sign of a proper golf club.

For those who enjoy this kind of humor, there is a terrific trilogy of books by George C. Nash, written in the 1930's, starting with Letters to the Secretary of a Golf Club.  These are some of the funniest things I've ever read, and consist of a series of letters to, and replies from, the secretary of a small rural British club.  The members are typically retired British army officers (General Forcurscue), civil servants who spent their careers in Malaysia (Lionel Nutmeg I think), naval officers, the clergy.....the list goes on and the stories are hysterical.  I first read the initial volume in the reading room at the R & A clubhouse and had to put it down for fear of being ejected for laughing out loud.

Amazon.com -- https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=letters+to+a+golf+club+secretary&x=0&y=0

[John Mayhugh]

For those who enjoy this kind of humor, there is a terrific trilogy of books by George C. Nash, written in the 1930's, starting with Letters to the Secretary of a Golf Club.  These are some of the funniest things I've ever read, and consist of a series of letters to, and replies from, the secretary of a small rural British club.  The members are typically retired British army officers (General Forcurscue), civil servants who spent their careers in Malaysia (Lionel Nutmeg I think), naval officers, the clergy.....the list goes on and the stories are hysterical.  I first read the initial volume in the reading room at the R & A clubhouse and had to put it down for fear of being ejected for laughing out loud.
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They let you in the R&A clubhouse?  Wonder if that prompted a suggestion book entry?   

Seems like we need to talk books next time we get together.  You have good taste.

[Bill_McBride]

For those who enjoy this kind of humor, there is a terrific trilogy of books by George C. Nash, written in the 1930's, starting with Letters to the Secretary of a Golf Club.  These are some of the funniest things I've ever read, and consist of a series of letters to, and replies from, the secretary of a small rural British club.  The members are typically retired British army officers (General Forcurscue), civil servants who spent their careers in Malaysia (Lionel Nutmeg I think), naval officers, the clergy.....the list goes on and the stories are hysterical.  I first read the initial volume in the reading room at the R & A clubhouse and had to put it down for fear of being ejected for laughing out loud.

They let you in the R&A clubhouse?  Wonder if that prompted a suggestion book entry?   

Seems like we need to talk books next time we get together.  You have good taste.
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Actually I was invited! 

[Anthony Gray]

  John,

  Very nice thread. I wish there were more threads like this.



  Thanks,

   Anthony

[Mark Chaplin]

John - the Sandwich dog story is my all time favourite. The cherries in Pimms debate ran for years in the Deal suggestion book, I think it is both a historical golf book and a very humourous read.
FYI the "parking area" by the flag pole was where carriages dropped off members in days gone by. The parking area just in front of the first tee was where carriages waited for the golfers while they were at the club.

[James Bennett]

For those who enjoy this kind of humor, there is a terrific trilogy of books by George C. Nash, written in the 1930's, starting with Letters to the Secretary of a Golf Club.  These are some of the funniest things I've ever read, and consist of a series of letters to, and replies from, the secretary of a small rural British club.  The members are typically retired British army officers (General Forcurscue), civil servants who spent their careers in Malaysia (Lionel Nutmeg I think), naval officers, the clergy.....the list goes on and the stories are hysterical.  I first read the initial volume in the reading room at the R & A clubhouse and had to put it down for fear of being ejected for laughing out loud.

They let you in the R&A clubhouse?  Wonder if that prompted a suggestion book entry?   

Seems like we need to talk books next time we get together.  You have good taste.

Actually I was invited! 
[/quote]

Only once Bill?

James B

[John Mayhugh]

Whilst traveling I read two more suggestions worth sharing:

This one is from Rye, with no reply noted.
10 July 1998.  Paper towels are as unwelcome at Rye as fourballs.  Both are introduced by Americans.  May we revert to more civilised materials.

And this one from Deal.
20 August 1933.  That Mr. Hunter's dog be destroyed.  It attacked and bit me this evening at 6 p.m.  I was walking outside the shop when it rushed at me from the garden of the ladies' clubhouse.
The suggestion book is reserved exclusively for the use of members of the Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club.

In a show of support for the dog and/or contempt for the complainer, one member added:
That the above suggestion is an unwarranted piece of impudence.  This is a members' Club and most members possibly prefer the presence of the dog to that of the aggrieved visitor.  I heartily endorse the above.  It only showed the dog's bad taste.

[Bob Jenkins]

Oh my!

On the last post above, Mayhugh from Kentucky is now using words like "Whilst". Just think if he had spent a few weeks over in England! Probably would come back with an accent, complain about lorries on the motorway, eat bacon rolls everyday and god knows what else.

[Bill_McBride]

For those who enjoy this kind of humor, there is a terrific trilogy of books by George C. Nash, written in the 1930's, starting with Letters to the Secretary of a Golf Club.  These are some of the funniest things I've ever read, and consist of a series of letters to, and replies from, the secretary of a small rural British club.  The members are typically retired British army officers (General Forcurscue), civil servants who spent their careers in Malaysia (Lionel Nutmeg I think), naval officers, the clergy.....the list goes on and the stories are hysterical.  I first read the initial volume in the reading room at the R & A clubhouse and had to put it down for fear of being ejected for laughing out loud.

They let you in the R&A clubhouse?  Wonder if that prompted a suggestion book entry?   

Seems like we need to talk books next time we get together.  You have good taste.

Actually I was invited! 

Only once Bill?

James B
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On he first occasion I was overserved before, during and after luncheon, and was dumbfounded when allowed inside the sacred premises my next visit.

[Bill_McBride]

Oh my!

On the last post above, Mayhugh from Kentucky is now using words like "Whilst". Just think if he had spent a few weeks over in England! Probably would come back with an accent, complain about lorries on the motorway, eat bacon rolls everyday and god knows what else.

But has he joined Deal yet?

It can only be a matter of time.

"Whilst" indeed.   

[John Mayhugh]

Oh my!

On the last post above, Mayhugh from Kentucky is now using words like "Whilst". Just think if he had spent a few weeks over in England! Probably would come back with an accent, complain about lorries on the motorway, eat bacon rolls everyday and god knows what else.

Haha.  I did that intentionally so see if anyone would notice.  It was worth it just to read your response.  I could get used to those bacon rolls.


Bill,
Fortunately or unfortunately, the economy has encouraged some restraint.

[Garland Bayley]

John,

You know it's a good thread when Anthony feels no need to post a comic to try to liven it up.

[Bill_McBride]

Oh my!

On the last post above, Mayhugh from Kentucky is now using words like "Whilst". Just think if he had spent a few weeks over in England! Probably would come back with an accent, complain about lorries on the motorway, eat bacon rolls everyday and god knows what else.

Bill,
Fortunately or unfortunately, the economy has encouraged some restraint.

Unfortunately I share your pain.   

[John Mayhugh]

John,

You know it's a good thread when Anthony feels no need to post a comic to try to liven it up.

Thanks.  I strongly encourage you to visit the London area and see if I captured even half of the greatness.

[Mark Chaplin]

The picture of Mark Pearce on the first tee at Deal - is it me or is he marching in the style of a North Korean?

[Michael Wharton-Palmer]

Amazed they even let you play from anything other than" tees of the day"

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