Course Administrators and the Rules

[reidsou]

Wondering about other's experience with course administrators. Do they promote the rules of golf? Should we expect them to? 

Background: I belong to a golf club that organizes tournaments at a municipal course. Our club is trying to popularize and enforce the rules of golf in our events, but the golf course staff is not on the same page.

For example,  the course manager just sent an email to our club suggesting we should lift, clean, and place throughout the general area year round, citing allegedly terrible course conditions and lack of staff. The conditions are the same as the other public courses in our area.  

Also, the greenskeeper has refused to mark GUR or to allow our club volunteers to do it. Not sure why,  i think because he believes it is unattractive. He suggested we create a local rule essentially allowing players to decide for themselves what is GUR. 

To me,  this is not appropriate for administrators of a golf course. But perhaps financial concerns are more important than the rules? 

[iacas]

22 minutes ago, reidsou said:

To me,  this is not appropriate for administrators of a golf course. But perhaps financial concerns are more important than the rules? 

Uhhhh, yes.

And for your tournaments, simply create your Committee and set the rules as you want them to be for the event(s).

[reidsou]

1 minute ago, iacas said:

Uhhhh, yes.

And for your tournaments, simply create your Committee and set the rules as you want them to be for the event(s).

Totally agree. And we are doing that. The problem is that we have a set of members who do not want to follow the rules (simplifying) and our committee is being undermined by the course professionals. Curious about other's experience that might help us win this ongoing argument.  

[iacas]

Just now, reidsou said:

The problem is that we have a set of members who do not want to follow the rules (simplifying) and our committee is being undermined by the course professionals.

Penalize or disqualify them. The course staff aren't on the Committee.

[reidsou]

4 minutes ago, iacas said:

Penalize or disqualify them. The course staff aren't on the Committee.

We can do that in an individual event.  The question is more about the ongoing debate within our club about what our local rules will be. What support should we demand and expect from the staff for the actual rules? Surely others have experience with this tension between business(?) and the rules?