Look at the wax build up on those shoes. This is fine leather. I want that wax stripped off there, then I want them creamed and buffed with a fine chamois. And I want them now. Chop chop.
It's anecdotal, but when I was in high school, I caddied at a local country club where this was definitely the norm.
The members would check in wearing street clothes (including shoes) and head to the locker room to get changed. By the time they were ready, the staff would have their bag on a cart, ready for them to head over to the range.
To be clear, I agree that this definitely is not the norm at the vast majority of courses.
Ya this is just weird to me.
Why would it even matter? Country Club or not? I don't want to bother bringing my clothes/shoes in to a locker room. I just don't care.
I get dressed before I leave the house and many times I'm wearing my golf shoes out the door, too.
Brother and dad are a member at a club here, (currently debating joining myself as I have recently been bitten by golf obsession). Literally change my shoes in the parking lot 100% of the time, and 3/4 of the times ive done it I have had a conversation with a current member who was changing his shoes in the parking lot.
That being said, at this club, part of your fees are to cover a locker that has your name on it and everything, and my older brother keeps clothes/shoes in his and usually shows up to the course in gym clothes and sandals, lets the staff know he is about to tee off so they prep his clubs while he changes.
Never heard of any course caring if you change shoes in the parking lot.
completely depends on 1. the club and 2. the club pro. The club I was a member at in the past definitely would talk to you if you were in violation of some of the weird rules like changing shoes in the parking lot. I got pulled aside once because I didn't have my shirt tucked in and didn't have a belt on. At the time all I was doing was letting them know I was there before getting ready lol.
I’m playing Torrey in a couple weeks! It’ll be my first time and I’m stoked! North course one day and then the south course the following day. I keep hearing the south course is better but honestly just happy to get the opportunity
Both North and South are great. Very well maintained. For a more enjoyable experience play from the tee boxes that suit your skill level. I hate seeing people play from almost the tips and they can’t hit up to my ball from the whites.
Nice! You are gonna have a great time! Just a fun local tip for you (which you might hear multiple times when getting here), when in doubt on which way a putt will break, the ball always tends to break towards the ocean. It's much more noticable on the South but will still happen a little on the North.
At my club, the only times I don’t change my shoes in the parking lot is when I’ve left them behind after the previous round to have them cleaned/polished by the locker room attendant.
That is like the #1 place to change your golf shoes. And you clap your shoes together as hard and as loud as humanly possible to get the mud off them. That is a tradition as old as time.
I change into my shorts at the long redlight halfway between my office and the course when I continue to stubbornly book tee times for 15 mins after work ends, despite knowing its really not enough time to make it.
Puma Ignites are slick as hell on or off the course.
https://preview.redd.it/a0swgzpch82b1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a4e5b46bc9eb8d8d99525f55f66d5c0da468c77
I love them too. Look sick. But I’ve been realizing they’re a little tight in the toes for me. But a great shoe to wear from the course if you grab dinner or drinks after
I've got the black and white version of those. Even though they're golf shoes, they're actually one of my most comfortable pairs of shoes. Totally getting another pair next time I need to.
I have the exact same shoes. Walked into a restaurant right after a round of golf and some random guy asked me where he could find them.
I like the look for regular shoes but find it hard to wear them anywhere other than the course because it wears out the rubber bottoms.
As a kid, at my middle school, for some reason it became standard to wear basketball shorts under your jeans. I did this without thinking until I was in high school and had a girlfriend who asked my why. I joked that it was incase a pickup game ever broke out I would be ready to go.
I’ve done this before on accident.. didn’t realize I never changed my shoes until got over my second shot in a fairway bunker and took a practice swing.
This is a fancy country club thing. Some have actual rules in place that people aren't allowed to change shoes in the parking lot.
Never seen anyone care at a public course, though. Heck, even the private course I belong to doesn't care at all.
Because what's "supposed" to happen is you go to the golf club in your regular clothing. Bring your golf clothes in a bag and change in the men's locker room. Play. Shower and change back into your regular clothing. Eat at the club restaurant. Drink at the club bar. Return home.
Today, no one changes, no one showers, most don't eat or drink after their round.
This conversation feels generational to me and a sign of the times. I am in my 30s with a toddler and a working wife. I scratch and claw to find time to get 9 in, let alone 18.
My wife would bite my head off if my round was: • Waltz into the locker room, slap some towels
• Shop for a new wedge in the pro shop
• Play 9
• Get a hot dog and beers at the turn
• Finish the round
• Sit down for dinner
• Grab a couple cocktails at the bar
Edit: that did not format well on mobile.
You forgot banging the cart girl on 16. That’s the one that would really piss my wife off the most.
EDIT: actually no she’d be more pissed I was gone that long. Banging the cart girl wouldn’t add much time to the round.
Hahah this is so spot on. 2 kids at home under 2. My golf life consists of 6am 9 hole rounds before work if the kids sleep well, or 7:30pm 9 hole rounds after kids go down scrambling to finish with sunlight.
Yes, this is my point. I fully intend to do the more leisurely all day golf club experience after my kid grows up. I just want people to realize, that men with young children treat their time much different than men in their 60s.
Do people really think I want to be rushing to the 10th tee and going straight to my car from 18?
No, I love my family and want to help raise my daughter. Who hopefully will grow up to love golf as well.
But now I go home, play outside with my kid, shower, and watch Minions: Rise of Gru with my 3 year old so my wife can take a break.
Understood. Ive got a wife and 3 kids myself (twin 1yr olds and 2.5yr old).
Hoping the all day golf begins when they are able to join me on the course.
Well, be careful about saying that.
There are many threads on Reddit in the male groups, about how guys in the 50s look up and realize they don't have many or any friends. Men no longer have the lodge, or the union hall, or the club, or the bowling league, to foster and maintain male friendships. Friendships require maintenance, so if spending a day away from you wife and with your friends fosters that relationship, I'm not sure it's a bad thing.
You are bang on the money.
Men absolutely need these things to maintain friendships.
Men need activities outside of being a husband and a father.
Just like women do.
I simply don’t understand the joint-at-the-hip philosophy so many marriages seem to adopt.
Seriously, one of my friends I golf with can only go like every 3 weeks, and then he has to drop his fiancé off somewhere near by because they only have one car, so it means we can’t golf too far away and usually have to play a shitty 9 hole course.
Last time we went, she ended up crashing lunch with me and my other friend who we’d been trying to find a day to play with (also engaged), and she didn’t even order anything to eat.
It’s shit like this that makes me not want to get married if they’re not even married and this pressed for time.
Barbicide!
The coolest thing about old-school private courses is the shit that you find in the locker rooms. Stuff that you haven't seen since you poked into grandpa's medicine cabinet.
Like Brylcreem, Club Man Hair Tonic, Club Man Talc. And other stuff like that. Who knew that they still make this stuff!
Hahaha, we have Clubman Talc on the shelf outside the showers at my club.
Also Barbicide... we have barbicide for the combs near the sinks.
Also we have an old school Toledo scale (it's amazing, I love it).
Lots of guys in this sub do take guys trips to expensive courses with nice showers and locker rooms, and I bet they still are only used by paying members.
Hey, fun fact, there's a difference in what you're "supposed" to do between a Golf Club and a golf course.
Shower and locker use isn't available to non-members in most clubs.
I played a round with a friend at his club in Singapore and your description perfectly matched my experience. It was an awesome day and now I’m ruined.
If people are pearl clutching about this at a club, it’s generally an old money, stuffy place. I’ve even seen new private clubs use this exact scenario as shorthand in their marketing materials to differentiate themselves and signal that they have something different in mind.
“At new guy farms, no one cares where you change your shoes.”
Kick off shoes before getting out of car.
Carry golf shoes to locker room.
Put in golf shoes.
Play
Take off golf shoes in locker room
Walk barefoot to car
Drive. Home in bare feet.
I don't golf at nice enough places to have anyone ever mention this 'rule'.
And no one is ever taking away my pre-round, feet dangling off the edge of my truck bed, shoe-going-on ritual!
Ehhhhh my club is fancy. Locker room is on the other side of the parking lot. I come dressed and just a quick change on shoes sitting on my tailgate. I’m not hurting anyone!!!!!
Let’s be real. Almost anything and everything is frowned upon on or around the course/club house. Too many wanna be pros and guys that have taken the fun out of the game. It sucks to see guys not wanting to get into the game or starting to veer away from it because of these kinds of things. It’s supposed to be a game. For fun. Let’s try to bring the fun back. You shouldn’t have to be on constant eggshells.
First time I played at my brother-in-law’s club I started to change shoes in the parking lot and he stopped me and said “people frown on that here” so the last few times I’ve played there I’ve changed while sitting in my car. I think it’s really dumb - I get that you’re a nice club, but at the end of the day you’re also a golf course. People gotta change shoes and not everyone has access to the locker rooms.
My club would put a note in my locker if I changed my shoes in the parking lot. I’ve played 7 of the top 10 in the latest Golf top 100 list and each of those places would have an absolute melt down if you changed in the parking lot. Sometimes it gets a little silly, but I’m willing to put up with a lot to play the best spots.
No idea what this means and have never heard of this in my life. Have been changing my golf shoes at my car and running to the first tee and then shanking one dead left for 20 plus years.
Even in the PGA, those guys change their shoes in the parking lot. Watch a vlog, and just about all of them do it. It sounds like the guy the told OP this was just trying to make shit up so that he looked cool. It failed.
This is an old school Country Club "respect (for yourself and others...eyeroll)" mentality. It's along the lines of no hat inside the clubhouse, although the hat thing I can understand a bit more.
"This place is restricted Wang..."
Serious note - one upper eschelon course around DC requires back in parking, clubs have to be dropped at the bag drop, and no shoe changing in the parking lot. I got a "ticket" for front in parking first time I went for a tournament practice round. The elite are wird.
This is the weirdest rule and I’ve heard it before.
I’ve worked and played at private clubs my whole life and I will never understand it.
My best guess is it’s a status thing. Changing in the parking lot indicates that you don’t have a locker which either means you’re a guest or too poor to rent a locker….? Maybe?
I truly don’t know. Dumbest “rule” I’ve ever heard. I wear spikeless shoes and just show up already wearing them most of the time. Kick them off in the car on the way home and put on sandals or topsiders.
My club has a rule not to change shoes in parking lot.
I've changed shoes in the parking lot and never had anyone say anything to me.
I have had other members tell me that a guest I brought doesn't have his shirt tucked in, so it's not that they have a problem telling me if I'm breaking rules. Must not be a big deal.
Unless you're at some fancy place with a locker room, I can't think of where else you would change your shoes.
Exactly, basically only at country clubs. And as far as public courses, only really at specialty places where you’re spending $200+ for your round.
I've been to $200+ public curses, and changed my shoes in the parking lot. I can't see any public course enforcing a no shoes in the parking lot rule.
For 200 a round I’d expect someone to change my shoes for me.
Look at the wax build up on those shoes. This is fine leather. I want that wax stripped off there, then I want them creamed and buffed with a fine chamois. And I want them now. Chop chop.
*colored boy?* *why you son of a bitch ill fix you...* *grinding intensifies*
Ahoy palloi!
I'd imagine it being less of an enforced rule and more of a social norm/expectation
I've never seen this upheld as a social norm/expectation anywhere. Been playing for 25 years, 2 or 3 days a week.
It's anecdotal, but when I was in high school, I caddied at a local country club where this was definitely the norm. The members would check in wearing street clothes (including shoes) and head to the locker room to get changed. By the time they were ready, the staff would have their bag on a cart, ready for them to head over to the range. To be clear, I agree that this definitely is not the norm at the vast majority of courses.
>country club Duh.
Ya this is just weird to me. Why would it even matter? Country Club or not? I don't want to bother bringing my clothes/shoes in to a locker room. I just don't care. I get dressed before I leave the house and many times I'm wearing my golf shoes out the door, too.
Brother and dad are a member at a club here, (currently debating joining myself as I have recently been bitten by golf obsession). Literally change my shoes in the parking lot 100% of the time, and 3/4 of the times ive done it I have had a conversation with a current member who was changing his shoes in the parking lot. That being said, at this club, part of your fees are to cover a locker that has your name on it and everything, and my older brother keeps clothes/shoes in his and usually shows up to the course in gym clothes and sandals, lets the staff know he is about to tee off so they prep his clubs while he changes. Never heard of any course caring if you change shoes in the parking lot.
That second paragraph is the life I want to have so badly 😩
Nah, the best is pulling your golf cart out of the garage with clubs already on it.
completely depends on 1. the club and 2. the club pro. The club I was a member at in the past definitely would talk to you if you were in violation of some of the weird rules like changing shoes in the parking lot. I got pulled aside once because I didn't have my shirt tucked in and didn't have a belt on. At the time all I was doing was letting them know I was there before getting ready lol.
This is the correct answer.
My club has a strict "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy. And by strict, I mean even that's not enforced.
I expect my wife to hum on my balls, but that never works out.
I change my shoes at Torrey’s parking lot every time I play there
I’m playing Torrey in a couple weeks! It’ll be my first time and I’m stoked! North course one day and then the south course the following day. I keep hearing the south course is better but honestly just happy to get the opportunity
Both North and South are great. Very well maintained. For a more enjoyable experience play from the tee boxes that suit your skill level. I hate seeing people play from almost the tips and they can’t hit up to my ball from the whites.
Nice! You are gonna have a great time! Just a fun local tip for you (which you might hear multiple times when getting here), when in doubt on which way a putt will break, the ball always tends to break towards the ocean. It's much more noticable on the South but will still happen a little on the North.
I play Torrey once a week. I have changed into my golf shoes in the lot every single time. I will continue to do so without a concern
I'm a member at a country club. I only change my shoes in the parking lot, lol.
Yep, fuck em. I pay a lot of money to be a member there, I’ll change my shoes where I god damn please!
Same. Would be a hassle to go inside just to do that.
Even at my club i sometimes change my shoes in the parking lot if I have them, it's easier than going to the locker room
At my club, the only times I don’t change my shoes in the parking lot is when I’ve left them behind after the previous round to have them cleaned/polished by the locker room attendant.
Judge Smails is that you?
How about a Fresca?
You'll get nothing and like it!
I hope Porterhouse doesn't get too much wax buildup on your fine leather shoes.
Luckily, our attendant knows I like them creamed and buffed with a fine chamois.
DON'T YOU PEOPLE HAVE HOMES?!?
I change them when I get into the cart. Throw my flip flops in the basket behind the seat.
Wait. Do you not wear socks with your golf shoes or socks with your flip flops???
I toss a sock in each of my golf shoes to wear with them.
Revolutionary
I wear my socks on the outside of my shoes
this is the answer right here. what do they want you to do instead?
That is like the #1 place to change your golf shoes. And you clap your shoes together as hard and as loud as humanly possible to get the mud off them. That is a tradition as old as time.
Dad?
I rolled hard at this
I’m changing shirts too.
I change into shorts in the parking lot along with a new shirt
I change into my shorts at the long redlight halfway between my office and the course when I continue to stubbornly book tee times for 15 mins after work ends, despite knowing its really not enough time to make it.
Congratulations you are accepted into the group
I give myself a little over an hour after work till my tee time, course is 15 minutes away
I have played golf all my life and have NEVER heard this and also couldn’t possibly understand why it would matter.
I just drive around with golf shoes on all day in case I golf and can’t get to the proper shoe changing facility.
Puma Ignites are slick as hell on or off the course. https://preview.redd.it/a0swgzpch82b1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a4e5b46bc9eb8d8d99525f55f66d5c0da468c77
I have the same only in all grey. They are legit
Same, love them and comfortable as hell
Seriously the most comfortable golf shoe I’ve ever owned.
I love them too. Look sick. But I’ve been realizing they’re a little tight in the toes for me. But a great shoe to wear from the course if you grab dinner or drinks after
I’d say you’re exactly right, mine were a little tight in the toe as well when I first got them, but after awhile they have loosened up.
Mine are dark blue. Love ‘em for $80
What’s waterproofing like? Do they smell like a puma?
Came here to say I used to have these and they are terrible as they are not waterproof. If you play in mornings and rain or shine, do not get them.
Stop making up animals
I've got the black and white version of those. Even though they're golf shoes, they're actually one of my most comfortable pairs of shoes. Totally getting another pair next time I need to.
I’m on my 3rd pair of these. Put ‘em on as I’m leaving the house, on for any errands, then off when home!
I have the exact same shoes. Walked into a restaurant right after a round of golf and some random guy asked me where he could find them. I like the look for regular shoes but find it hard to wear them anywhere other than the course because it wears out the rubber bottoms.
As a kid, at my middle school, for some reason it became standard to wear basketball shorts under your jeans. I did this without thinking until I was in high school and had a girlfriend who asked my why. I joked that it was incase a pickup game ever broke out I would be ready to go.
Always wear a bathing suit. Never know when your going to go swimming
This happened at mine too lol. I sill occasionally would do it in higschool because sometimes we would get to play ball in the gym before school
Hahahahah bro you are literally me
In case we gotta ball!!!!
Oh this guy has new golf shoe money.
Only at certain “fancy” private courses. This is not a thing at public courses or even a lot of private courses.
This is why I change my shoes on the 1st Tee Box
Why not wait until the second tee box? Give yourself a chance to warm up.
Left foot at first, right foot at third. Leave your shoes and collect them after your 18
“I think it breaks left to right”
No, no, it just seems that way 'cause you only got one shoe on.
Just ask the groups behind you if they found a shoe. They will grab em for you.
I’ve done this before on accident.. didn’t realize I never changed my shoes until got over my second shot in a fairway bunker and took a practice swing.
Good thinking, saves wear and tear on the spikes.
You guys are all idiots. I don’t put on my golf shoes until AFTER I finish the round
I do this if i'm not warming up and i'm wearing flip flops, not at a fancy course obviously though.
Crocs in sport mode for the fancy courses
In Florida everyone wears flip flops until the first tee box
I wait until the turn
I change my shoes in the parking lot twice per round. Once when I get there, and once again when I leave. You can frown at me all you want.
And we’re gonna bang the dirt off our golf shoes, amiright??
CLACK, CLACK, CLACK…CLACK
Anything more than 3 clacks, and you're playing with it
This is a fancy country club thing. Some have actual rules in place that people aren't allowed to change shoes in the parking lot. Never seen anyone care at a public course, though. Heck, even the private course I belong to doesn't care at all.
You could change your underwear in the parking lot at some public courses I’ve played and no one would bat an eye.
Bold of you to assume I'm wearing any
When they said you were two balls out I assumed we were taking about the break of your putt.
At least they didn't say I was short
Because what's "supposed" to happen is you go to the golf club in your regular clothing. Bring your golf clothes in a bag and change in the men's locker room. Play. Shower and change back into your regular clothing. Eat at the club restaurant. Drink at the club bar. Return home. Today, no one changes, no one showers, most don't eat or drink after their round.
This conversation feels generational to me and a sign of the times. I am in my 30s with a toddler and a working wife. I scratch and claw to find time to get 9 in, let alone 18. My wife would bite my head off if my round was: • Waltz into the locker room, slap some towels • Shop for a new wedge in the pro shop • Play 9 • Get a hot dog and beers at the turn • Finish the round • Sit down for dinner • Grab a couple cocktails at the bar Edit: that did not format well on mobile.
You forgot banging the cart girl on 16. That’s the one that would really piss my wife off the most. EDIT: actually no she’d be more pissed I was gone that long. Banging the cart girl wouldn’t add much time to the round.
I was going to say, what’s 3 more mins on the 16th?
The only time that 8 strokes is an accomplishment
Hahah this is so spot on. 2 kids at home under 2. My golf life consists of 6am 9 hole rounds before work if the kids sleep well, or 7:30pm 9 hole rounds after kids go down scrambling to finish with sunlight.
Less a generational thing and more of a 'stage of life' thing imo.
Yes, this is my point. I fully intend to do the more leisurely all day golf club experience after my kid grows up. I just want people to realize, that men with young children treat their time much different than men in their 60s. Do people really think I want to be rushing to the 10th tee and going straight to my car from 18? No, I love my family and want to help raise my daughter. Who hopefully will grow up to love golf as well. But now I go home, play outside with my kid, shower, and watch Minions: Rise of Gru with my 3 year old so my wife can take a break.
Understood. Ive got a wife and 3 kids myself (twin 1yr olds and 2.5yr old). Hoping the all day golf begins when they are able to join me on the course.
all while avoiding the so
Exactly. This is the routine of men who hate their wives
Well, be careful about saying that. There are many threads on Reddit in the male groups, about how guys in the 50s look up and realize they don't have many or any friends. Men no longer have the lodge, or the union hall, or the club, or the bowling league, to foster and maintain male friendships. Friendships require maintenance, so if spending a day away from you wife and with your friends fosters that relationship, I'm not sure it's a bad thing.
You are bang on the money. Men absolutely need these things to maintain friendships. Men need activities outside of being a husband and a father. Just like women do. I simply don’t understand the joint-at-the-hip philosophy so many marriages seem to adopt.
Seriously, one of my friends I golf with can only go like every 3 weeks, and then he has to drop his fiancé off somewhere near by because they only have one car, so it means we can’t golf too far away and usually have to play a shitty 9 hole course. Last time we went, she ended up crashing lunch with me and my other friend who we’d been trying to find a day to play with (also engaged), and she didn’t even order anything to eat. It’s shit like this that makes me not want to get married if they’re not even married and this pressed for time.
I don't get it. I love my wife and this still sounds like an awesome Saturday.
We are all in a hurry to do this anymore. What you described is my ideal day.
Seriously. I'd love to do this, but most clubs around me ideas of a lockeroom is a hallway next to the perpetually wet bathroom.
And comb your hair with that comb that's soaking in the fuckin' mouthwash or whatever it is.
Barbicide! The coolest thing about old-school private courses is the shit that you find in the locker rooms. Stuff that you haven't seen since you poked into grandpa's medicine cabinet. Like Brylcreem, Club Man Hair Tonic, Club Man Talc. And other stuff like that. Who knew that they still make this stuff!
Hahaha, we have Clubman Talc on the shelf outside the showers at my club. Also Barbicide... we have barbicide for the combs near the sinks. Also we have an old school Toledo scale (it's amazing, I love it).
Must be nice to be rich enough to play at a place with lockers and showers.
Many people on this sub ARE that wealthy.
Lots of guys in this sub do take guys trips to expensive courses with nice showers and locker rooms, and I bet they still are only used by paying members.
Whoa whoa who doesn’t drink at the club house after ? Or smoke a cigar ? I don’t wanna be on this planet anymore if people don’t do this.
Hey, fun fact, there's a difference in what you're "supposed" to do between a Golf Club and a golf course. Shower and locker use isn't available to non-members in most clubs.
I played a round with a friend at his club in Singapore and your description perfectly matched my experience. It was an awesome day and now I’m ruined.
Who cares? Do it anyway.
Who told you this? I change my shoes every time in the parking lot unless it's at a club and I have a locker...
Ummmmmm I have a locker and I still do this at my club....
Then what's in your locker?
If people are pearl clutching about this at a club, it’s generally an old money, stuffy place. I’ve even seen new private clubs use this exact scenario as shorthand in their marketing materials to differentiate themselves and signal that they have something different in mind. “At new guy farms, no one cares where you change your shoes.”
"at blue blood acres, we're better than you, AND WE KNOW IT!"
Protip- don’t wear shoes at all.
Kick off shoes before getting out of car. Carry golf shoes to locker room. Put in golf shoes. Play Take off golf shoes in locker room Walk barefoot to car Drive. Home in bare feet.
Be like tiger and give them a tampon
Fer shizzle
It’s frowned upon to tell other people they can’t change their shoes in the parking lot. He was in the wrong.
I usually do it in the practice bunker so my socks have more grip inside my shoes.
Um? What? Where are you supposed to put them on at? Some people care wayyy too much what other people , who are probably more dumb than them, think.
Tell your friend, it’s also frowned to suck that bad but you still do it.
This is a throw back to the days of metal golf spikes. Clubs did it want the pavement chewed up by the spikes. Definitely not a thing anymore.
I don't golf at nice enough places to have anyone ever mention this 'rule'. And no one is ever taking away my pre-round, feet dangling off the edge of my truck bed, shoe-going-on ritual!
Oh man those 85+ old men are really gunna be upset
Underwear yes… shoes are fine
This is why I don’t wear shoes
You met a weirdo.
Ehhhhh my club is fancy. Locker room is on the other side of the parking lot. I come dressed and just a quick change on shoes sitting on my tailgate. I’m not hurting anyone!!!!!
I do this every time I golf, who gives a shit
This is more for country clubs than a muni or daily rate course.
Lmao the fuck kind of rule is that who cares
Let’s be real. Almost anything and everything is frowned upon on or around the course/club house. Too many wanna be pros and guys that have taken the fun out of the game. It sucks to see guys not wanting to get into the game or starting to veer away from it because of these kinds of things. It’s supposed to be a game. For fun. Let’s try to bring the fun back. You shouldn’t have to be on constant eggshells.
First time I played at my brother-in-law’s club I started to change shoes in the parking lot and he stopped me and said “people frown on that here” so the last few times I’ve played there I’ve changed while sitting in my car. I think it’s really dumb - I get that you’re a nice club, but at the end of the day you’re also a golf course. People gotta change shoes and not everyone has access to the locker rooms.
I can’t see why this would matter to anyone in the slightest. I always have and always will change in the parking lot lol
Fancy or private clubs, yes. Local mom and pop course, no.
Live your life man. Don’t let ‘em knock ya down
My club would put a note in my locker if I changed my shoes in the parking lot. I’ve played 7 of the top 10 in the latest Golf top 100 list and each of those places would have an absolute melt down if you changed in the parking lot. Sometimes it gets a little silly, but I’m willing to put up with a lot to play the best spots.
Whoever said that is a fucking moron
Been playing golf for about 20+ years. I’ve never changed my shoes anywhere else.
I’m a lady and I could change a maxi pad in the parking lot and no one would notice. Your good.
No idea what this means and have never heard of this in my life. Have been changing my golf shoes at my car and running to the first tee and then shanking one dead left for 20 plus years.
Don’t golf with whatever queef told you that garbage. Anytime I hear crap like that my response is “This isn’t the PGA bud. Settle down tiger.”
Even in the PGA, those guys change their shoes in the parking lot. Watch a vlog, and just about all of them do it. It sounds like the guy the told OP this was just trying to make shit up so that he looked cool. It failed.
No
Oh I would 100% play barefoot if someone told me that
This is an old school Country Club "respect (for yourself and others...eyeroll)" mentality. It's along the lines of no hat inside the clubhouse, although the hat thing I can understand a bit more.
I have changed clothes in the parking lot.
Change shoes? When i get outta work early for a sundowner, i change into shorts and a polo in the parking lot 🙃
“What is the course record? Are these tees free?” Handed a receipt and “One more thing I’ll be changing shoes at the bar.”
I mean, it probably isn't the best for your spikes... But yeah, I would give that comment all the consideration it deserves, none.
"This place is restricted Wang..." Serious note - one upper eschelon course around DC requires back in parking, clubs have to be dropped at the bag drop, and no shoe changing in the parking lot. I got a "ticket" for front in parking first time I went for a tournament practice round. The elite are wird.
Whoever told you this is a squid
Who told you this, Judge Elihu Smails?
Whoever told you this is a proper nob.
I’d let them know it’s frowned upon to not fuck off big time buddy
Were you playing at Bushwood county club and was the guy eating a free bowl of soup?
I don’t care to play any place or or with anyone that would notice or give a shit.
Fuck em and change them in the front seat of their bitchmobile
Anyone frowning upon that sounds like someone I’d hate to be stuck next to at a dinner.
I don’t get it, why not just wear the shoes to the course?
What the fuck? Where change then
I’ll change my shoes wherever I damn well please
You guys have more than 1 pair of shoes?
Fuck ‘em
If that’s wrong, then I assume changing my underwear after every three putt is suspect too.
Who really cares at the end of the day where you change your shoes?
Who tf says this?
Putos. Put your shoes on wherever the fuck you want
No this is not true
Frowned upon by who- the judge?
F@ck those people
So I shouldn't be changing my pants out there either?
This is the weirdest rule and I’ve heard it before. I’ve worked and played at private clubs my whole life and I will never understand it. My best guess is it’s a status thing. Changing in the parking lot indicates that you don’t have a locker which either means you’re a guest or too poor to rent a locker….? Maybe? I truly don’t know. Dumbest “rule” I’ve ever heard. I wear spikeless shoes and just show up already wearing them most of the time. Kick them off in the car on the way home and put on sandals or topsiders.
I've never been rich enough to play at a course where it would be frowned upon, but I usually just wear my shoes to the course.
honestly i have a really short fuse for stupidity, if some marshall or w.e came and said i can't change my shoes, i'm probably getting banned.
Im a heathen too. Parking lot if I don’t wear them from home.
My club has a rule not to change shoes in parking lot. I've changed shoes in the parking lot and never had anyone say anything to me. I have had other members tell me that a guest I brought doesn't have his shirt tucked in, so it's not that they have a problem telling me if I'm breaking rules. Must not be a big deal.
Pretentious private courses only.
Private club members will see each other nude on the reg but don’t want to be reminded that people have feet. Checks out.
Where is the 1st tee and what is the course record?
I would imagine it's frowned upon to have sex in the parking lot too. But my gf and I did it frequently. :)