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What do you get out of running a club?

• reid72 48 Posts

  Sun, Jan 12 2014 5:32 PM

  The idea of a starting club is interesting.  I was curious to find out a bit more why folks open a club before I created one.  Would appreciate any replies with what you get out of running a club - satisfaction, social, etc.  

  Thanks!

• Priesum 2,009 Posts

  Mon, Jan 13 2014 3:36 AM

  Very much depends on you, the time and effort you put in to it and, of course, the members you attract.

  Plus side:

  Social interaction with a group of people that you know you get along with (some vetting and weeding out required of course)

  You can have the final say on types of tournaments the club is running

  There are other plusses - I am sure other CC owners can expand on this.

  Minus side:

  Frustration with inactive players and members not contributing to the social side of the game

  Time needed to ensure the smooth running of the club

  Lack of tools available from WGT to enable you to run a CC in a smooth and efficient manner

  Did I mention frustration with inactive players....

  Weight it up and if you have the credits available to set up a new club, and ,quite importantly, a few friends that you know will join you initially, take the plunge.

  If you would like more information, feel free to send me a friend request so that we can discuss through PM.

  Kelly,

  Owner

  the Oddball Country Club

• DonR1231 3,711 Posts

  Mon, Jan 13 2014 5:30 AM

  I Agree with everything you have said.  When I first started mine I got very frustrated with members not being active in tournaments, checking and reading the forum and so on.  But as I have gone on I have learned that you are dealing with a lot of different kinds of people here.  Different life styles, time zones, time for playing and having jobs and a family.  

  I for one am retired and have more time than others.  One thing I found that helps is forming committees to get some members involved more.  I have a complaint, tournament, trophy and membership committees and a chairman and members that have volunteered to serve on them.  This has taken a lot off my shoulders and has helped make Bogey Busters a better club.

  Don't get frustrated with members not being as active as others,  It is going to happen, but as long as they are faithful members it doesn't matter.  The ones that are not don't stick around very long.  And yes we have rules set up for the club.  They are ask to go to the web site and read them before joining.

  Don, owner of Bogey Busters

• billcliff 2,616 Posts

  Mon, Jan 13 2014 6:08 AM

  I agree over time you find loyalty in your members, weed out people who are not really interested in belonging to a club and you end up with great friends. Always ask for help never tell members to do this and that ask them.I am sure you will be ok.I have 1 rule in my club play 1 club comp every 2 weeks not much to ask works well.

• SamanthaWho 3,403 Posts

  Mon, Jan 13 2014 6:29 AM

  First off ask yourself why do you want to own/run your own club.

  It takes A LOT of time. We have a committee of 6 that run different aspects of our cc. A committee message thread where we toss ideas back and forth. Each member of the committee runs a club major tournament.

  Basically everything Kelly mentioned, she runs a top notch club, hard to go wrong listening to her advice.

• MichaelStroke 2,066 Posts

  Mon, Jan 13 2014 9:16 AM

  Ya got me.  I'd see it as more of a headache than anything else.

  Most of the CCs I've seen are started by women.  They tend to have more free time.

• ycfc1992 1,143 Posts

  Mon, Jan 13 2014 9:44 AM

  Headaches 

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Mon, Jan 13 2014 10:00 AM

  MichaelStroke:

  Ya got me.  I'd see it as more of a headache than anything else.

  Most of the CCs I've seen are started by women.  They tend to have more brains.

  Corrected for accuracy. :-)

• Talluin 257 Posts

  Mon, Jan 13 2014 10:17 AM

  Running a club can be a huge headache as well as being hugely rewarding.  I've made a lot of new friends with other CC owners, asked advice, given advice.  biggest thing for me was having something social whilst playing.  I created the website and initially was a heavy burden,   it now basically looks after itself needing minimal updates every couple of days.

  The membership is amazing, i have been out for a while after an accident and the membership picked up what needed to be done and kept the club going.  Some impatient players left, that was their decision but the core, ran the club incredibly well.  a lot of our events have sponsors, balls, clubs, gifted regularly.

   

  Southern is a relatively small club with a very healthy membership.  The biggest challenge for me was getting a good core membership.  I've never been concerned with just having names in the club, just having numbers.  Had i not continually released members for non activity or non participation, we'd be well over 100 members, whats the point in having a club full of deadwood though?

   All new members get the opportunity to establish themselves through activity and participation.  Too many clubs i feel, place too much of a burden on playing in a certain number of tournaments, or forced participation in very, very boring tournaments.  All new members at Southern have 7 days to register on the club website, if they don't, they are simply released. If players don't play in any club tournaments for 30 days but are playing within WGT, they are simply released.   

  Don't ram activity and participation down members throats, challenge, variety and competitive events will generate activity without you having to force players into playing.

  I get a lot out of running Southern, I have just organised our 2014 tour schedule and the feedback is for me, very rewarding.  Seeing our chat box as busy as it is, is for me, very rewarding.  seeing the club forum and the club website is for me, very rewarding.

  There has been some huge headaches along the way and times where i think, why did i bother, then i look at the membership that have made Southern their WGT home and it just makes it all worthwhile.

  Tal Owner of

  

• MichaelStroke 2,066 Posts

  Mon, Jan 13 2014 11:03 AM

  courteneyfish:

  MichaelStroke:

  Ya got me.  I'd see it as more of a headache than anything else.

  Most of the CCs I've seen are started by women.  They tend to have more brains.

  Corrected for accuracy. :-)

   

  I'm guessing that the men around your location are on the dim-witted side.

  Frankly, I'd consider myself lucky to find a girlfriend that could keep up with me when watching Jeopardy on the couch.

  Of course, if my girlfriend had that kind of intellect, it'd be incredibly unfair to most women out there.  She does have other...assets going her way.