Most of us know the clichés about being a member of a golf
club – you don't join to improve your game, or because you necessarily enjoy
playing it, but because it affords you the opportunity/excuse to spend
significant time with business prospects/partners/customers away from the usual
day-to-day contexts and pressures of the work place;
it's an opportunity to cement and maintain key strategic
business relationships – and relationships are best nurtured where people can
come together around a neutral or mutual interest, hence the rise of the golf
clubs historically, and why most members of golf clubs today are
'professionals' not in golf, but in various fields of business;
and you know what – it's about time I got in on this act! I
spend a lot of time impacting upon the world and supporting others through
various networks and relationships, but there's a gap in how I do this that it's about time I addressed.
I want to take up membership of a golf club. But which one?
As a reader of this blog, you'll know that I can be a little unconventional at
times, and don't usually wear suits or ties – and that will likely mean I
struggle to even been invited to discuss any application I make to many such
clubs, but that won't deter me. I need to find a golf club where I can meet
like-minded people, where I can be proud to invite people to meet me at and
spend time together, and have the knowledge that whoever I'm entertaining as my
guest, they'll enjoy themselves.
So there's really only one golf club that I'd like to be a
member of – crazy golf!
