Should Visitors Be Treated As Equals At Golf Clubs?

Let’s start by clarifying something. Every human should do their utmost to treat other humans equally. That’s a reasonably reasonable requirement of each of us.

Golf clubs are, historically, not famous trendsetters when it comes to equality but it’s, without question, something they should be striving towards. An obvious starting point is to welcome all visitors as equals for the morning, day or week of their time at the club. I think visitors should be treated as equals at golf clubs. Although there is one caveat, which I’ll come on to.

Visitors will, almost always, be paying relatively more than a member for their time spent at a club. Say a visitor’s day rate is £175, that would be the equivalent of £63,875 a year if they handed that fee over every day for golf club membership. Visitors are important contributors to the finances and successful running of clubs, and they should be thanked and appreciated.

If you’re arriving at a club to pay a hefty visitor’s fee, you don’t want to be directed to a secondary car park, a lengthy hike away from the clubhouse. Then, when you get to the clubhouse, you don’t want to be squirreled away round by the bins in a visitors’ changing facility that looks like somewhere you might run into Tucker Jenkins.