Senior Section Survey August 2024

Senior Section Survey August 2024

Senior Section Survey August 2024

Firstly, thank you to everyone who replied to the survey. We have just over 100 “playing members” (i.e. regularly played in Senior competitions in 2024) and around another 80 who are eligible but don’t participate to the same extent.

We received 69 replies to the survey, 56 of which were from playing members.

The committee will discuss this further on 17 October, a summary of responses is below.

Q1 How relevant is the Senior section to you

The average score for this question was 8.7 overall, and 9.4 among playing members

Q2 How interested are you in playing Seniors inter-club matches

It is clear from the replies that, whilst strongly supporting the section, a number of people have no interest in these matches. Others have quite a strong interest with 38 playing members giving a score of 7 or more in answer to this question (10 people available for 4 or more matches this year did not reply so are not in the 38).

Q2a Comments on matches

There was a range of comments on matches, including; there are too many matches, it is difficult to fit in with Seniors/Club knockouts, too long a day, difficulty playing consecutive days, only playing a set number of days per week, work/family commitments. Suggestions included; reducing the number of matches/team size, alternating home/away, considering afternoon matches, playing off yellow tees, and match reminders other than the website.

Q3 Should more matches be played on Thursday

This generated a mixed bag of replies; Yes - alongside seniors comp, Yes – but no seniors comp, No - Thursday is for seniors comps. Keep 12 individual Q comps, not the same day as the Club match.

Q4 Other comments

Again, a wide range of comments; well run section (thanks to all), if it’s not broke don’t fix it, Thursdays are fragmented, some loss of camaraderie, more (monthly?) start sheet events, social night, team comps difficult if not part of a regular group, consider winter comps over 14 holes (subject to course opening!) and, most optimistically, “possibly dancing girls at some point”.