Say you have a group of men who want to play golf on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9:00 a.m. at one of the local golf clubs. Some in the group are members of the club where play will occur, some are not. So you can't rely on the Pro Shop to list the people playing each day. Some are not in the Club's computer system.
With the group being eclectic, some members, some non-members, some pretty good golfers, some not so much, it becomes the duty of the coordinator of each day's golf outing to devise a efficient and effective way to allow those who wish to play to make their wishes known.
One way to do that is for the coordinator to schedule a set of team tee times at the Club; for the coordinator to e-mail the potential player pool of the scheduled tee times and ask that prospective players reply with a reservation request to the coordinator by a specified time.
This approach works if the pool of potential players have e-mail, the members of the group are responsive to requests that they confirm their desire to play each respective day, and that they do it in a timely manner to allow the coordinator to schedule more tee times if necessary, or, conversely, to release unneeded tee times back to the Pro Shop so that others are able to use the relinquished tee times.
This is a very workable system if everyone has e-mail and each is assiduous in responding to the coordinator. The failure of the system comes in two modes: 1) Some have Internet connections, but are unschooled in the use of the Internet and, therefore, e-mail is a mystery unsolved; 2) Some, not yet introduced to more advanced electronic media are restricted to the archaic (some as deprived as land-land only) telephone or even the more primitive word-of-mouth. On the one hand, the Internet-capable but response-deficient fail to get back to the coordinator while, at the same time, the phone-restricted oftentimes fail to get the word at all.
So the answer to this dilemma of unresponsive Internet users and people without Internet capability is to have the individual group members to call the Pro Shop and indicate that they will play with the group on the date specific and at the time that the group will be playing on that date. To ensure that the group member and the Pro Shop employee communicate completely and that the player get assigned to the right group, it would help if the group has a name. Therein lies the problem. To have a name, someone must create or select the name.
If you have 50 people in a group and you ask for suggestions for a name for the group, you will get at least 100 suggestions. Most will be unworkable, profane, inappropriate in some other way or down right moronic. So what to do?
With the new media, Wikipedia, GOOGLE, and other technological marvels ...just do a search. Here's some of what you get:
- Lost Balls
- One Club Short
- Within The Leather
- Putz Out
- Diminishing Distance
- Clipped Turkeys
- Homeless Turkeys
- Old Turkeys
- Wild Turkeys
- Turkey Buzzards
- Gobblers
- The Remainder
- Hangin' On
- Men's Golf
- Herren Golf (German)
- Golf Uomo (Italian)
- Hommes de Golf (French)
- Golf del hombre (Spanish)
- Sand Blasters
- Missed Putz
- Par Plus
- Park Close
As an aside, turkey is included in many of the names because our old club was named Turkey Creek ...likewise, our former group name was the Mafia. We are taking this opportunity to drop our pseudo criminal association ...no more Mafia, Cosa Nostra, and the like.
Most of these names are lame. So, if it were your choice, what would you name the group?
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