Coplicks Tallebudgera
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As previously posted during a previous review Coplicks at Tallebudgera on Queenslands Gold Coast is a good course to get out and have a social hack with friends……or so I thought.
I travelled to Coplicks this past weekend for a social hit with friends as a group of 4. We were teeing off at 6am to avoid getting caught up in the weekend social comp that starts at 6.30. One of our playing party turned up with a friend who has only emigrated from Scotland 3 days ago to have a walk around the course with us not knowing that Coplicks have a no non players policy.
The policy itself is fair enough so our new Australian paid his fees as a player with the intention of just accompanying his new friends along to enjoy the company and the conversation. he had never played golf before and just wanted to see what the game was all about.
We played as a group of 4 and 1 non player (although paid full fees to walk the course) until the end of the second hole when we were approached by the course marshall (playing in the group behind us mind you) who rudely informed us that our non player despite paying his fees must either play or leave the course and that as we were now a group of 5 needed to split into two groups.
I have played this course regularly over the past 18 months and this is the first time that I have seen the course marshall let alone seen him police playing conditions despite seeing some of the slowest payers attempt this course that I have ever seen.
This guy also then had the audacity once he split us into two groups to ask to play through our rear group (even though we were not playing slow and still parring most holes) and hit up on our first group.
This course is a very short course and as I previously blogged good for a hack with mates due to its cheap price and quite poor condition. However with an attitude from staff and course administrators that would rival a course of a much greater standard this course is simply no longer worth the trip nor the money.
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