STEPHEN HUBNER
JUMEIRAH GOLF ESTATES DIRECTOR OF GOLF
Dear Valued Members,
ETIQUETTE DRIVE
I hope you are well and enjoying your golf during this beautiful winter weather.
To help improve the on-course etiquette and in turn the experience for our members, we recently announced that the Club will be recording all etiquette breaches made by members. Our Marshals have been doing a super job informing offending members on the course of breaches they see and reporting these to the Golf Office each day. In the first month there have been over 100 member breaches! While this number is alarmingly high, the positive is that members are being reminded of the importance of etiquette so that they can avoid future occurrences.
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t has been a very busy start to the year here at Jumeirah Golf Estates and it has been wonderful to see so many of our members playing regularly and competing in our many club competitions.
Our wonderful team of colleagues are fully committed to improving the member experience here at the Club and below is a brief update on what is currently being done to achieve this. As always, any questions or feedback is welcome and you can reach me at shubner@dubaigolf.com.
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Offending members are receiving warning letters from the Club outlining the breach with a reminder of the importance of respecting other golfers by ensuring etiquette guidelines are followed. If a member is found to have had a second breach in a 12-month period, then a 7-day playing ban will be issued. Thankfully this has not happened so far. To assist members in successfully carrying out their etiquette obligations, we have recently added additional rakes to large bunkers and added sand bottle fixings to trolleys for walking golfers. In addition, our Starters are giving a more thorough brief and we are happy to report that all these small changes are certainly helping. Thank you for your support with this.
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