Eye Candy Caddies banned from Sandford Springs golf course (From This is Hampshire)
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Eye Candy Caddies banned from Sandford Springs golf course
11:48am Wednesday 2nd September 2009 in
Models have been banned from providing a sexy caddy escort service by golf officials who accused them of damaging the reputation of the sport.
Eye Candy Caddies offers an all-female caddy service by providing models to help rake bunkers, man competition holes, help with registration and "provide light banter".
The company, based in Eastcote, north-west London, has around 150 young women on its books, and they are available for golfers for £230 for a round.
Their online profiles show some provocatively dressed in underwear and feature their answers to questions on their favourite music, holiday destination and body part.
But their presence on the fairways prompted objections from purists of the sport who claim they devalue the reputation of golf.
Leaderboard Golf, which owns and operates Sandford Springs in Kingsclere, Hampshire and other courses including Chart Hills in Biddenden, Kent, Dale Hill in Wadhurst, East Sussex, and the Oxfordshire in Oxford, enforced an immediate ban on members bringing the caddies on to its courses.
The ban follows concerns by both male and female club members and what Leaderboard claims was the unauthorised use of its flagship course, the Oxfordshire, on the Eye Candy Caddies website.
A Leaderboard spokesman said: "With golf having been shortlisted to become an Olympic sport, anyone who seriously cares about the development of the game should work to ensure it is as professional, inclusive and culturally inoffensive as any other major sport.
"We are not being killjoys in objecting to a service which invites men to select from a photo menu of young women, often pictured in their underwear, who are to be judged according to the merits of their responses to questions such as 'What is your favourite body part'."
Former model Sarah Stacey, 43, managing director of Eye Candy Caddies, said they were "being persecuted for being good looking" and accused Leaderboard officials of being killjoys.
Comments(12)
teamgreen
says...
11:55am Wed 2 Sep 09
King Mush
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1:31pm Wed 2 Sep 09
Bartonian
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2:15pm Wed 2 Sep 09
bemused26
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2:18pm Wed 2 Sep 09
teamgreen wrote:It is not the women objecting! Read it, it is the men.
so what if they use female caddies,they are paying for the use so let them.maybe if the sport got less stuck up there own rears they might have more people willing to pay and play.if it was the other way round IE men caddies for women golfers this would not even be happening.why is it women can object to this, but if a man objects to women using men for there fun he is labeled sexist and insecure? one rule for 'ladies'and one for the men!
I'm a woman- I think it's a great idea :)
teamgreen
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3:23pm Wed 2 Sep 09
bemused26 wrote:men and women are mentioned,how many are married and being told by the wives what to do!!
teamgreen wrote: so what if they use female caddies,they are paying for the use so let them.maybe if the sport got less stuck up there own rears they might have more people willing to pay and play.if it was the other way round IE men caddies for women golfers this would not even be happening.why is it women can object to this, but if a man objects to women using men for there fun he is labeled sexist and insecure? one rule for 'ladies'and one for the men!It is not the women objecting! Read it, it is the men. I'm a woman- I think it's a great idea :)
Ozmosis
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9:15pm Wed 2 Sep 09
(s/w = fail-wage, lol!)
King Mush
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11:22pm Wed 2 Sep 09
I always park in one of their 'allocated' bays near the door and reserved for 'club captain' etc then keep quiet when some red-faced Col Blimp comes marching round and trying to find out which peasant dared to commandeer this hallowed ground.
Just so some fat fool can waddle up to the entrance door with his golf clubs!
I think they are also bastions of Freemasonry too.
Numpties one and all.
Let's hope that top totty can be seen on many a golf course- I might even be tempted into playing a few holes
kinkyboots
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7:53am Thu 3 Sep 09
Treas
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8:26am Thu 3 Sep 09
Tirau Dan (NZL)
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9:35pm Thu 3 Sep 09
230 pounds a round is wonderful value thats about 2 pounds a whack for me what what chortle.
A simply spiffing idea, mind you a floating duck island on a fairway somewhere may be jolly eye candy too wot wot.
Toodle pip, ttfn
Redback
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12:24pm Fri 4 Sep 09
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peachy1 says...
11:53am Wed 2 Sep 09