Delhi Golf Club accuses Rashid Khan of indiscipline for him getting banned
The feud between Rashid Khan and Delhi Golf Club isn’t resolving anytime soon with the president of the club Major Ravinder Singh Bedi stating that the golfer’s continuous indiscipline has led to his ban. Earlier, Rashid had stated that he was being discriminated upon his humble background.
Bedi has revealed that it was Rashid Khan and his fellow golfers' continuous attempts at “causing disrepute to the club” and causing a ruckus on a “weekly basis” that have led the golfer and his team getting banned. It has been going on for long now between Rashid and DGC with Bedi stating that the other golfers getting involved with him to project his image.
“All along, he (Khan) has been getting playing rights in this club for which he didn’t pay a penny. He earns in crores but he insisted on playing rights which we granted him. No club or institution can survive if we allow hooliganism and indiscipline,” he said, reported IANS.
After Saturday’s incident where the golfers were forced to wait over three hours at the Tughlaq Road police station in Lutyens Delhi on Saturday following an argument over using the club’s driving range, Rashid had tweeted that he had called the police for being disallowed in the club. However, Bedi stated that it was the authorities who called the club.
“They came with their bags and said that we want to go and play. We will pay the green fees. The guard said that your entry into the club is banned so there is no question of you being allowed to go in. They said that if we are not allowed in, we will sit here and not allow any traffic to go. Then, we called the police. I personally called the DCP. Our security staff called the police and all these will be reflected in the records,” he added.
“Khan’s aim is to gain membership with the club,” said the DGC President. “There are some 3,000 or 4,000 (people) in the waiting list of members and that goes to anywhere between 30 and 35 years. He has not even applied and wants membership. He doesn’t state as much elsewhere but this is what he has been looking for. Let him apply and wait for his turn,” Bedi added.
Bedi also stated that the club had picked Rashid "as a boy” and helped him gain experience through various programmes to improve him.
“The bigger role in this has been played by the ladies of the club who have been teaching him the various niceties of life. They have been accompanying him on his tournaments when he was growing up, looking after his daily needs, washing his clothes during that period. This is the extent to which the club has gone to help him and then he goes to the press to bad mouth us saying that he has come from a certain background, so the club is discriminating against him and not giving membership for which he has never applied. He is using all these as pressure tactics to get it,” he said.