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I once took a client to play with me and a couple buddies at an "upscale" at what was then a semi-private club (it has since gone private). The starter started giving us crap about what tees we were going to play and how they didn't tolerate slow play before we even got out of our carts. This can be okay if done politely, which it was not. I politely told him to shove it. Then there was a rain delay and while waiting at a halfway house/snack bar we heard some derogatory comments about us "being public and waiting for the rain to stop to get our money's worth" a ranger made which came over a walkie-talkie sitting on the counter. At the end of the round it began to pour again and they wouldn't let us drive our carts to our cars. That was a rule I guess, but the way they enforced it was very rude and aggressive. We had no idea, and a guy actually like grabbed me and said , "What the f are you doing?"

After the round I sent a letter to the director of golf/owner explaining how disappointed I was in the behavior of his employees. He called me and tried to give me some passes for another round, but was really pretty dismissive and disrespectful while doing it.

I not so politely told him to shove it, and badmouthed the place and his operations for years. He has since taken quite a bath at this club and two other developments due to the real estate crash. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Kevin