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Re: Looking to join a club. How to choose.

• Crash827 8 Posts

  Mon, May 25 2015 12:24 PM

  On WGT since March.  I believe I am active.  Am interested in making some friends, competition, and increased enjoyment while playing.  There are lots of CC's here and doesn't appear to be any great way to understand which clubs are great and which are not.

  So, if you have a club or simply want to provide advice, please let me know how to differentiate between the various CC's, tell me why I should pick this club or that club, and/or send me an invite.

  Frankly, I have spent most of my time playing the game trying to lower my score and secure the equipment I want in my bag.  It is addicting.  It would be nice to broaden my horizons a bit.

   

  Robert

• PTrenter 437 Posts

  Tue, May 26 2015 12:13 PM

  Hi Robert, have a look at our website at http://selgolfclub.co.uk/. It has all the info about our club and what we offer.  We have plenty of members on both sides of the pond so our Chatbox is usually active 24/7.  Our forum has a host of tips and tricks regarding shots and equipment.  

  If you like what you see we'd love to have you on board.

• EasyEdward 13,507 Posts

  Tue, May 26 2015 12:32 PM

  There are lots of great Country Clubs in WGT.

  It would be nice if WGT would let you create a custom sorting of the 44,000 plus Country Clubs out there.  Unfortunately WGT does not provide anything like that.

  However, some information can be gleaned going to WGT Community and selecting Country Clubs.

  For example, try sorting on Club Level and leave the box checked that says "looking for members"

  The higher level CCs can generally be said to be more active but any CC that is level 10 or higher is probably in that category.

  Open any one of them and then sort by the different categories for things that would indicate the membership mix.

  1) Tier:  (you may or may not want to be in a CC with 80% Legends and only 2 other Tour Pros)

  2) Level: (you may or may not want to be in a CC with high level low Tier members who appear to not want to improve)

  3) Check the country flags: (you may or may not want to be in a CC with 90% of the members from the other side of the world as you may not have much chance to play a round with them.

  4) Date last played: (again you may not want to be in a CC where 50% of the members have not played yet this year)

  There are other things you can check if you want but those 4 are a good start. From there you might find 4 or 5 CCs that fit the demographics you desire.  Then contact the owners of each and ask whatever questions you think are appropriate.

• Crash827 8 Posts

  Tue, May 26 2015 1:27 PM

  Thanks for the responses and hopefully others will also provide advice.  I did receive several invites.  I found EasyEdward's post quite helpful in reviewing the invites.  It enabled me to focus on particular invites but wonder if there are additional considerations to further refine my decision making process?  Huge clubs are nice but it would seem then that the smaller clubs would be at a huge disadvantage and never grow:  the big clubs had to start somewhere right?  When is a club too big?  Or too small?

  In looking through the various things, a question did arise with respect to EE's point number 2 and it goes to show my lack of understanding of certain things.  What should I infer from seeing members with very high levels in high tiers who also have very high average scores?  I mean scores 30 pts higher than the score needed to attain the tier to begin with?

  I appreciate your time in responding and am enjoying the camaraderie I am seeing here on the forum (and the friend requests.)  I might actually get to play against someone other than myself.

• steve1248 849 Posts

  Tue, May 26 2015 4:02 PM

  I agree ED   & mostly with #4      having a 100 members who don't  play is a joke.

  I'd also ask the owner if a trial membership is ok.......2 -3 weeks   if it's not right, it isn't   no harm, no foul..       look to see if the club has a mission statement

  Check out Flash in the Pan GC,  stop on by anytime

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Wed, May 27 2015 12:47 AM

  The level dont always matter passed level 6 or so. Some clubs have 200 members and because they are active the clubs XP rises......but they are not always active in their club comps.

  Click on an owner, see his green hyperlinks (some of them will be club comps), then see that sometimes these BIG clubs have 15 or so playing in house stuff.

  Bubbs

• phred952 2,714 Posts

  Wed, May 27 2015 5:56 AM

  If you are talking about scoring averages, they reset every time you tier up.  That accounts for a player being a Legend (which requires an average of 61, in X # of rounds) having an average show up of say 69, or whatever.

  Read forum post about saturation (how many rounds at a particular level) requirements, and you'll have a better idea about how the tier system works.  If I just made Legend, and i shoot a 69 for 1 18 hole round, my average will reflect that score.  As you play more, it will move up or down, until your reach saturation point.

  Good luck, and feel free to check out the FAIR PLAY GOLF CLUB.  We have a mission statement posted.

  phred952

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Wed, May 27 2015 8:03 AM

  Good choice Robert, before you know it you will be Legend tier lol. But not too soon mate, the fun bits getting there.

  Bubbs

• EasyEdward 13,507 Posts

  Wed, May 27 2015 8:53 AM

  Crash827:

  but wonder if there are additional considerations to further refine my decision making process?  Huge clubs are nice but it would seem then that the smaller clubs would be at a huge disadvantage and never grow:  the big clubs had to start somewhere right?  When is a club too big?  Or too small?

  My feeling is there is no optimal size CC - it can be small and just as active as a larger CC. I suppose a 250 member CC is too big to consider because that is the maximum size CC allowed - so they would need to boot someone out to let you in.

  Crash827:

  In looking through the various things, a question did arise with respect to EE's point number 2 and it goes to show my lack of understanding of certain things.  What should I infer from seeing members with very high levels in high tiers who also have very high average scores?  I mean scores 30 pts higher than the score needed to attain the tier to begin with?

  What I meant by this is if a CC has a large number of Level 90+ Pros and Tour Pros it "may" indicate that the better players are not trying to be helpful to their fellow members in playing better.  Scoring average is less important in my mind since CCs can now (unfortunately IMHO) create tournaments off the hack tees that count toward your average.

  In the end a CC membership is not a life long commitment - well unless you find the right one first like I did :-)  - you can leave any time you want.

  A lot is individual preference and whether the CC aligns with that preference. Our CC has its own voice chat channel with a lounge and 10 different individual rooms. 25% of the CC belongs to it and as I prefer talking rather than typing that is a very nice bonus. We also have an active Forum, a points tournament that has been going for over 2 years, a rotating schedule of tourneys all off default tees such that each 9 holes and the full 18 holes of every course is available to play every 2 weeks. In the end though it is the other members who I have come to know over the last 2.5 years in The Peoples Club that keep me there - a truly wonderful bunch all around.

  I hope you find a CC that becomes a home to you.

  EE