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Telegraph - Old ‘leeches’ drive a wedge in golf clubs

Senior citizens who dedicate their retirement days to golf have been denounced as “leeches” on their clubs.

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.

The monthly newsletter says that as life expectancy and fitness levels increase, older players are making greater use of memberships, playing two or three times a week. They spend so long on the course they become “leeches” on the club.

I guess when they’re middle-class country club members, it’s all right to refer to old people as lazy, selfish, leech-like drains on society.