But again, Club Championships tend to be off scratch, i.e. no handicaps involved (unless the club involved is offering a nett prize, but that is just a low value... in my club's case.... thanks for your efforts, prize).
I'd like to think I'm far from an arsehole, worse even, a golf club arsehole, but, elitism should be for ONE COMPETITION per club's year, and one competition only. It's my club's Championship, this weekend. I CAN enter. I'M GOING NOWHERE NEAR IT.
Looking at a few entries ago, I'm horrified, particularly at the story of the low man literally snubbing his playing partner, by saying don't expect me to look for your ball. That's despicable. You have a duty as a golfer to assist your playing partner/opponent.
Re the incident I mentioned in my post at 7:36 pm, and my playing partners that day. I know them both very well. The +2er is THE club legend (of it's 120 year history, CC at least 15 times) and the 1 h/cpr is in my group of golfing friends (a rag, but let's not hold that against him), and the LAST thing they'd ever say, would be something as crass as what was previously mentioned. In fact, you'd get in the bar, and they'd give you a few hints as to where faults were.
I've been a member of my club for 40 years, and the only snobs I've encountered, are the social climbing ones. Let THE BEST have a competition, unhindered. Like I say, I CAN play in it. I WON'T, though