No More Sexy Golf Parties At A UK Golf Course

by Ryan Ballengee on Sep 1, 2009 1:39 PM EDT Comment 10 comments

Eye Candy Caddies is a UK company that connects models with golfers that want, well, eye candy to caddy for them when playing golf. Fellas pay about $300 per round for the ladies to caddy for them. The ladies are trained in the rules of the game, etiquette, and the stuff that caddies know. They just happen to be pretty hot.

Apparently, though, golf course firm Leaderboard Golf does not like sexy caddies. They have banned Eye Candy's girls from their courses. (Boo this man!) Their explanation?

Anyone who seriously cares about the development of the game should work to ensure that it is as professional, inclusive, and culturally inoffensive as any other major sport.

Exploiting outmoded notions of golf as a male bastion is not 'just a bit of fun' - it damages the reputation of the sport as a whole as well as its appeal to members of the younger generation of either sex.

So, wait, sexy girls should not be included in the sport? I mean, what if a really hot woman (or equally stunning man, though that's not my forte) wanted to caddy at a club? Would they not be ok'd by Leaderboard because of their looks. That's beauty-ism. And given the British reputation for oral hygiene, they have no room to talk.

I don't know about you, but I would think that good looking caddies would enhance the appeal of golf to young people. Golf can have a lousy reputation among the kids. As Happy Gilmore put it so eloquently, "Golf requires goofy pants and a big ass." Well, if it required some eye candy, wouldn't you be more inclined to play, Hypothetical Kids of America?

Either way, let's cut to the chase. What do these girls look like? Well, take a look at their website (which is getting slammed with hits right now) or check out the Daily Mail's story.

Meet Katy. And notice the copyright belongs to the Internet.

Thankfully, the Heartbeat of America doesn't ban sexy caddies. In fact, Walters Golf has a service called Par Mates that basically does the same thing in Vegas.

Can't make it to Vegas? Well, Caddychicks.com has you covered. They connect girls that want to caddy for guys playing golf with golfers - male or female - that want some female caddyship.

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Dollars to doughnuts – you’re looking at this completely wrong.

I will almost guarantee you that either the wife of one or more of the club officials, or some of the women members of the club got wind of the men bringing in the Eye Candy girls – and they lowered the boom on the men. :-D

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Sep 1, 2009 1:55 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Court is probably right.

I was going to hire one of the lovely local femme fatale caddies for the penultimate match in our club match play because my opponent was going to be a pretty well-known sandbagger (a 14 who can toss out par rounds when it matters) and my friends and I boiled up this scheme to distract him, because he fancies himself a “ladies man.” Her job would have been to mess with his head.

Not very sporting, I realize that, but it was supposed to be a comeuppance.

Problem is he lost and the guy I play next is one of those good guys that everyone likes and while he’ll be good company to play with (I’ve enjoyed some great rounds with him before) there’s no need to play head games like that.

by Old Man Par on Sep 1, 2009 2:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

What's next, the beer cart girls?

Soon I supposed clubs will start replacing the MOFOBETE’s (MObile FOod and BEverage TEchnician) with the starter. In addition to selling you a beer and a snickers, he’d remind you about the 90-degree cart rule!

by golfstinks on Sep 1, 2009 3:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

No, they will have the rangers sell you beer.

After a breathalyzer and a speech about playing to slow. If you aren’t firing when the foursome in front of you has gotten under the cover of their carts, you are too slow.

by Old Man Par on Sep 1, 2009 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

do they HAVE beer cart girls in the UK ? I have played in Scotland and only saw one cart being used by a golfer in 8 days – and he was handicapped. We only played great, old, links courses – no parkland or resort courses, so I don’t know how they do things.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Sep 1, 2009 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Candy Caddies

I can imagine that this might have been popular idea for Corporate outings at UK clubs which allow non-members to play, but not otherwise. That’s a heck of a lot of money for a start, but if you’re wealthy enough to afford it, you probably also belong to a club which would have a heart attack at the thought of it.

I’ve never see a beer cart on a golf course in the UK (doesn’t mean they don’t exist of course). Best you can hope for is the odd burger stand on e.g. holes 1/9/18 and maybe a buggy sent out with bottled water on the one day a year the temperature goes over 25 deg. In my innocence I’ve also never actually seen anyone drinking beer on a course over here; maybe they just make up for it on the 19th?

by WendyUK on Sep 2, 2009 10:51 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Maybe that’s the difference in cultural feelings about golf between the US and UK. I know of very few public courses that don’t have some kind of beer cart girl. There are varying degrees to which the owners care about the looks of the cart girls, but it’s a bit of a phenomenon here.

Email me any comments or questions at ryan@thegolfnewsnet.com.

by Ryan Ballengee on Sep 2, 2009 11:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

sigh – I LOVED playing over in Scotland – walking – drunks kept to the 19th hole – rounds played in under 4 hours…even by guys who looked like they were 100 years old

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Sep 2, 2009 11:48 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I received 2 complimentary buggy tickets when paying my membership fees this year. Special treat to use a buggy on a really hot day. Still waiting to use the 2nd one.

The following is true – but in very poor taste – sorry in advance!

Special Olympics took place in hometown of Portsmouth some years ago. Part of my volunteer duties was to play a round of golf with some participants with varying physical handicaps who just happened to be American. On arrival they asked where the buggies were. Blank faces . Whoever organised a round at that particular course should have been shot, but at the time I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

by WendyUK on Sep 2, 2009 12:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs