Golf clubs and courses

A golf club is the one setting where buggies are not an occasional hire but a permanent operational question, and it is a question with several owners: the greenkeeper worried about the ground, the secretary worried about the policy, the committee worried about the spend, and the members who simply want one on a Saturday morning.

These guides are written for the people who have to settle it. They cover the written policy and why an unwritten one causes most of the disputes, access for golfers who cannot walk the course, the wet-weather decision and how to communicate it, paths and routing, fleet management and charging, and the ownership and replacement questions that arrive every few years.

Access is the part changing fastest. National guidance now treats buggy use by golfers who need one as an access question rather than a discretionary favour, which makes a blanket ban harder to defend and a considered, written restriction easier. Several of these guides deal with that directly, and all of them point at a club's own published policy and its own insurer as the authority rather than substituting for either.