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cleo2spice
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 Posted: 9/23/2004, 5:45 am Post subject: Kids on golf course |
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Kids are not always welcome at golf courses (especially in USA) says an article http://www.travelgolf.com/departments/editorials/kids-golf-access-691.htm The writer speaks from personal experience. He relates instances of how the people at the counters were rude when they came to know that his 7-yr-old son was going to play and the writer would only supervise.
Though I agree that the people could have been polite but allowing kids on the golf course is inviting trouble. If kids are not supervised properly they tend to wander and it can be dangerous. While some parents may be conscientious one cannot assume that all of them will be the same. So, kids should not be allowed on golf courses. Do you agree with me? |
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Patrick
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No. I've been around the golf industry my entire life and it is nonsense.
If kids shouldn't be allowed on a golf course - no one really should. Age doesn't equate to maturity or how one handles oneself. Just as you have to do with adults or any person - when they show up at your operation, you have to give them a clean slate. You give them a chance to build a reputation. If they act right, then good. If they act poorly, there are consequences.
If they are below a certain age, certainly it is with parental supervision and there has to be limits on playing speed and the like, just as with adults. Again, just as with adults, require that they understand the (their parents teach them, possibly) basic etiquette of the game.
That is the only honest, fair and appropriate way to handle it. Generally, you cannot hold an entire group out of something because of a few bad applies. That goes for adults and children.
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J.R.
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You're painting all kids with one brush. They're not all bad and out there to cause trouble for the course and other players. There are many kids who are under the age of 16 that I have seen that handle themselves very honourably and respectively on a golf course.
Rules like this that prohibits people because of their age, is the same as probiting someone from playing because of their skin colour. It's agism, which is unfair for them.
Don't let a couple bad apples ruin the basket, and don't stereotype young golfers. They have the right to be out on the course enjoying the great game.
I just wish more young people would start golfing at an early age.
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corvettesque
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| Posted: 9/29/2004, 10:10 am Post subject: |
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i'm a kid myself-15
and i can handle myself better than most adults i play with. kids should have the right to play just as much as anybody else
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juggaloman09
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| Hey man, I don't think you should be so tough on kids, people steriotype htem to be immature and have short attention spans. While this may have been true years ago, kids have slowly become more mature, my little cousin is 6 and if she could get a drivers license and a job she could live by herself, and thats just one example. |
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corvettesque
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i think you may be wrong about the maturity level thing, i know some pretty immature people (or maybe just stupid). last year, freshman year, a dude put tobasco suace in his eye for a buck. afterward he was quoted "i didn't know it would hurt so bad."
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Sportsforum
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That's profiling and maturity is gained through age it is experienced.
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juggaloman09
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| Posted: 10/8/2004, 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| corvettesque wrote: |
| i think you may be wrong about the maturity level thing, i know some pretty immature people (or maybe just stupid). last year, freshman year, a dude put tobasco suace in his eye for a buck. afterward he was quoted "i didn't know it would hurt so bad." |
Well ya, some people are morons. I'm in freaking high school and I see kids telling 'yo mama' jokes and doing the 'ghetto walk' (don't ask), but there rae still kids with brains out there, and they're the ones generally wanting to play golf because the ones like corvettesque mentioned (tobasco sauce in the eye?) generally think golf is boring. |
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kdawn
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I've played against young teens and they've done well. Golf course owners and operators should be doing things to encourage young people to play instead of trying to discourage them.
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