Annual subscription 2026

[Springveldt]

I've got to stop looking on Google Maps.

Longhirst Hall, 36 holes, £750 a year!

I live about 5 miles from Longhirst, it’s good during the summer but gets very wet.

And as you might have noticed you can get a large detached up here for the price of a terraced ex-council down south. My neighbours moved up from down south about 7 years ago and they couldn’t believe the kind of house they got up here for how “little” money.

When I read online about young adults having to take 40 year mortgages for £400K to buy a flat it blows my mind.

 

[Springveldt]

All over the £1000 barrier in our area

Close house, Rockcliffe Hall, The Northumberland, Ramside Hall, Matfen hall, Wynyard, Hexham, Tyneside, the City of Newcastle, Ponteland, Whitley Bay, Slaley Hall.

Couple years ago, 6 of those were well under £1k mark

Arcot Hall was £930 last year (nearly £950 with EG and county fees) and they would likely have been in that bracket if they didn’t freeze prices for next season.

Won’t be long before they join that group, Morpeth in a couple of years as well.

 

[IanM]

Just as long as they don’t get Mackenzie and Ebert in to destroy that beautiful course by recreating the Sahara, the way they have massacred a couple of the closing holes at Ganton and Deal, that adds nothing to the way anyone would strategise playing those holes

I thought they were only changing a 2 holes and moving the first tee

Last summer I stood when the new par 3 is going. Massive improvement on the soon to be removed 9th. (Weakest hole on course by miles)

Played with a member who was hugely enthusiastic about the changes.

 

[KenL]

I thought they were only changing a 2 holes and moving the first tee

Last summer I stood when the new par 3 is going. Massive improvement on the soon to be removed 9th. (Weakest hole on course by miles)

Played with a member who was hugely enthusiastic about the changes.

The current 9th hole is poor but the 1st hole is terrible!

 

[evemccc]

I thought they were only changing a 2 holes and moving the first tee

Last summer I stood when the new par 3 is going. Massive improvement on the soon to be removed 9th. (Weakest hole on course by miles)

Played with a member who was hugely enthusiastic about the changes.

As long as they are

Opinions are like ‘elbows’() everyone’s got them..I actually quite liked the first..nice bit of elevation gain, slight dogleg etc. I have only only played it once mind you

The ninth however…

 

[KenL]

Slight dogleg.
Getting on the green in 2 is a rare event. Usually over the back or runs back down off the front by about 30 yards.

 

[IanM]

Slight dogleg.
Getting on the green in 2 is a rare event. Usually over the back or runs back down off the front by about 30 yards.

Pretty sure the first tee is going left to sort that out... not sure about the slope up the front, which if course i came back down

 

[timd77]

On the subject of why there’s such a difference in fees depending on the area…

I live in the West Midlands, currently a member at bewdley pines, which is privately owned, run as a business, bar always busy, great food and drink offering. It’s a well draining course and pretty much always open, rarely off temps (bet I’ll tempt fate now!), we get plenty of visitors which no doubt helps the finances. 7 day membership is £1150.

My last club is about 3 miles down the road, Kidderminster, member owned. Bar rarely busy, not many people had food when I was there. The year I left, due to the weather we were on 10 or 13 holes from November to February/march. The club was in financial difficulties, we had to pay a £100 levy in the November (towards energy costs), and come renewal time the 7 day membership went up by approx £300 to over £1500 (I’m not sure what it is now, probably north of £1600). I’d say it’s more of a ‘posh’ and exclusive course, in the spring and summer it’s lovely, and so that’s probably why they charge a higher membership fee.

I know there are other factors involved, but as a straight comparison between these 2, I’d say that being run as a business, bewdley pines is better at bringing money in, spending it wisely, keeping members happy with lower costs.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Absolutely not. A rip off is £1000 for Turnberry.
Plus, options of cheaper tee times in the shoulder seasons.

And what really upsets me is that the likes of Turnberry, Troon, Gleneagles, Royal Dornoch and more especially TOC, are important elements of Scotland’s heritage that are out of the reach of the majority of Scots golfers…and that feels sooo wrong…though it is almost certainly simply my emotional heart rather than my logical brain that says so.

 

[KenL]

And what really upsets me is that the likes of Turnberry, Troon, Gleneagles, Royal Dornoch and more especially TOC, are important elements of Scotland’s heritage that are out of the reach of the majority of Scots golfers…and that feels sooo wrong…though it is almost certainly simply my emotional heart rather than my logical brain that says so.

Agreed. All of these courses should really have a UK (or local) resident rate.
The likes of Kingsbarns and Dumbarnie do that.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

And what really upsets me is that the likes of Turnberry, Troon, Gleneagles, Royal Dornoch and more especially TOC, are important elements of Scotland’s heritage that are out of the reach of the majority of Scots golfers…and that feels sooo wrong…though it is almost certainly simply my emotional heart rather than my logical brain that says so.

A lot of the clubs in Scotland still have SGU rates that can be used