Ensuring that golf club interiors in the London area look inviting and up-to-date is now more important than ever. All clubs are today operating in a highly competitive marketplace, meaning they must work hard to stay ahead of the pack.
Where a clubhouse and facilities are starting to look tired, investing in a refurbishment is likely to be the best answer. Indeed, many clubs now organise updates to their premises at regular intervals to maintain a constant atmosphere of welcoming comfort. Fit out contractors Thames have all the expertise needed to give your club an appealing new look and ensure it can compete with others across the London and Hertfordshire areas.
Current Challenges for Golf Clubs
Golf is still one of Britain’s most popular sports in terms of participation, with around 750,000 people enjoying a game every week. England Golf is hoping to build on this, and is currently working to increase the number of golfers to 910,000 by 2017.
Despite this, however, numbers belonging to clubs have fallen over recent years, mainly because more people are participating on a casual basis rather than joining. Against this background, it isn’t just attracting new members which presents a challenge. It can also be a constant struggle to retain existing members and encourage them to spend more time at the club. Success in this field means looking at what your members want, asking them what they think about your current facilities and how they feel they could be improved.
If your current décor and furnishings are looking outdated, you may well find this is putting members off socialising in the clubhouse. However, once you embark on golf club refurbishing, improving the ambience and making it more comfortable, the likelihood is that existing members will be more keen to use the area. They may also opt to hold functions and parties at the club, which will bring in friends and relations who may go on to join up.
Carrying out a Successful Golf Club Redesign
The first step of a club design is to look in detail at the existing layout of the clubhouse, and plan the space. When Thames is consulted about a golf clubhouse redesign, we start by visiting you and looking at the current facilities, discussing your needs and requirements in detail. After drawing up an initial brief and getting your views on this, we will make any further adjustments and then draw up a 3D vision of how the clubhouse will look after the work.
Working closely with you throughout, we get your input on what type of facilities you want, so you can make the design choices which are right for your particular club and membership. For example, when we recently redesigned the lounge and dining areas for Mid Herts Golf Club, champagne voile curtains helped to give a brighter new look, as well as Wilton carpets specially designed for the club and natural oak bar counters.
Often clubs embarking on a refurb are looking to increase lounge and bar areas in order to give greater comfort. Also, during a restaurant or bar renovation, the area often needs to be made adaptable so it can be used for different types of meals and functions. This may mean building on an extension, but it could equally involve making better use of existing space. For instance, a new restaurant design within your clubhouse could involve adding sliding doors and relocating bars or catering areas. Brighter décor and better lighting can also help to create the desired atmosphere.
When designing club interiors, a number of other factors need to be borne in mind. This includes compliance with a whole range of regulations, covering everything from fire prevention to building regulations, access for golfers with disabilities and health and safety requirements. Thames constantly keeps abreast of the changing regulatory framework affecting building projects, so you can be confident that your clubhouse design will be fully compliant.
Setting out to update your golf club interiors may seem like a daunting prospect, but it can all be made much simpler by consulting a single firm which can organise the whole redesign from start to finish. As refurbishment contractors with more than 25 years of experience, London-based Thames Contracts are able to take charge of the whole project. This means the work can be carried out much more quickly than if you had to arrange for different trades to be on the site at different times.
Thames Contacts can also fit work around the needs of your golf club membership, for instance carrying out refurbishment during quieter times of year, normally the winter months. It may also be possible to arrange a phased programme of works if you prefer this. We stick to agreed costings and timetables, so you can be confident that when the busy time of year arrives your new look will be in place – ready to welcome both new and existing members to your club.
