Senior Citizens = Golf Course "Leeches"

According to the British Golf Club Secretary Newletter, senior citizens are ruining golf courses and the experiences of the younger golfers deeming them as "leeches."

Many elderly players, who pay reduced fees, spend more than half their week playing, ruining courses and annoying younger members who often pay a lot more for membership, says The Golf Club Secretary Newsletter.

Now clubs are considering banning elderly players at certain times and dropping concessionary rates.

Damn, there is no way the golf clubs win this one. Seniors are stubborn and will make sure they win, especially involving their second religion, golf.

The seniors will produce a public outcry making sure that the prices are not run up and their time on the golf course is not shortened. But I may be wrong, as I live in America and do not know the culture of senior citizens in the UK.

I cannot believe that the newsletter calls them "leeches," classic. Sure, they may be on the course a lot, but they use a golf course that is otherwise unoccupied because the younger players are at work.

Once the senior citizens are aware of the golf clubs that agree with the sentiment made by the newsletter they will really show them how to milk a golf course. I would love to see seniors ditch the golf carts to walk the full 18-hole course while getting tanked on Miller's High Life suds.