Annual subscription 2026

[KenL]

I'm definitely not an expert in these things, but that sounds much more expensive overall than installing it all in one go. Also more disruptive.

It took two days to install the irrigation on one hole in the middle of winter. Less disruption than you would expect.

Cost, I’m not sure but the people brought in to help are very efficient. We already have full irrigation on greens and tees so not starting from scratch.

 

[Neilds]

Already knew about the 7 and 5day fees for our club...£1,350 and £1,150 respectively, but it seems we have introduced some intermediate categories...

Under 30's...£950
Under 21's...£600
Under 17's...£400

Big jump when people get to 31, can see quite a few not bothering to renew when they reach that age.

 

[KenL]

Big jump when people get to 31, can see quite a few not bothering to renew when they reach that age.

At that age (or well before) they should be paying full whack. Pay monthly and the increase won’t be that huge. Possibly paying Sky, Netflix etc. a £100 a month and £50 for a phone and £500 for a flash car.

 

[nickjdavis]

Big jump when people get to 31, can see quite a few not bothering to renew when they reach that age.

Its a jump, but the 7 day membership is still one of the cheaper memberships in the region.

We have only offered intermediate levels of membership in the last 2 or three years....pre-covid, you'd have been paying full whack irrespective of your age if you were an adult.

 

[Crazyface]

We need to get our reservoir dug first...the hurdles we being forced to jump by the Council.....
Eyesore? When there's a bloody great 2 track high speed railway scarring the landscape 1/2 a mile away........
Convinced if we'd chucked a few backhanders it would have been finished by now....

A Reservoir? Of sunshine????

 

[Mark1751]

Do you enjoy the new layout at Wexham? I played it in November but the front nine seemed like a bit of a long old slog, wasn't a fan really. With back-to-back par 5s 5th & 6th, then back-to-back long par 4s 8th & 9th. The back nine was better, but that's mostly the old holes followed by the new 18th which is nice.

Short answer not really, it’s an ok layout, I think some of the new holes are good. Holes 3,4,7,8,11,12,13,14,15,16 and 17 are essentially the same as before or just a tiny bit different than what was there before. Only stayed as all friends are there.

 

[Orikoru]

Short answer not really, it’s an ok layout, I think some of the new holes are good. Holes 3,4,7,8,11,12,13,14,15,16 and 17 are essentially the same as before or just a tiny bit different than what was there before. Only stayed as all friends are there.

Yeah, I didn't hugely like hole 5 which was just two old holes bodged together into one big, long par 5. And then hole 6 was as well!

 

[Shooter McPowick]

If you’re going to put fairway watering in you would need £200 levy per year for at least 10 years.

We have full fairway watering, the system is old it needs upgrading. The levy will be for a few years I think.

 

[D-S]

We have full fairway watering, the system is old it needs upgrading. The levy will be for a few years I think.

Same here, initial costings to upgrade all pipes, fairway, tee, greens and heads is north of £1 million. This doesn’t include borehole pumps, tank or pumps from tank which have all been recently upgraded.
This being said, we have used the fairway watering a lot over the last 10 years to great effect. We hardly needed to use it at all for the first 20 years after installation.

 

[Springveldt]

Already knew about the 7 and 5day fees for our club...£1,350 and £1,150 respectively, but it seems we have introduced some intermediate categories...

Under 30's...£950
Under 21's...£600
Under 17's...£400

£400 for a junior?

My current place it's £60 for 18 and under, I'm going back to my old club next season and it's £34 for 18 and under there.

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

£400 for a junior?

My current place it's £60 for 18 and under, I'm going back to my old club next season and it's £34 for 18 and under there.

The club I’m joining is £123 a year for juniors, so comparatively £400 sounds a lot. But in real terms that’s £33 a month, I’d happily pay that for my kids to have access to playing golf as a member. It costs t £40 a month for my daughter to do gymnastics and that’s once a week! So for a kid to play effectively unlimited golf at £33pcm I think that’s reasonable.

Used to cost my mum and day £110 a year for me as a junior back in the 1990s.

 

[Mel Smooth]

The club I’m joining is £123 a year for juniors, so comparatively £400 sounds a lot. But in real terms that’s £33 a month, I’d happily pay that for my kids to have access to playing golf as a member. It costs t £40 a month for my daughter to do gymnastics and that’s once a week! So for a kid to play effectively unlimited golf at £33pcm I think that’s reasonable.

Used to cost my mum and day £110 a year for me as a junior back in the 1990s.

Jamie's total junior membership fees for the 3 clubs he's a member of don't amount to £200. For that across all 3 clubs, he's getting access to 94 holes of golf, free range balls, a fantastic short game area, an indoor simulator that costs £10 per hour, and one of the courses is in the top 10 in Yorkshire.


Less than £5 a week for all that - incredible value.

 

[Springveldt]

The club I’m joining is £123 a year for juniors, so comparatively £400 sounds a lot. But in real terms that’s £33 a month, I’d happily pay that for my kids to have access to playing golf as a member. It costs t £40 a month for my daughter to do gymnastics and that’s once a week! So for a kid to play effectively unlimited golf at £33pcm I think that’s reasonable.

Used to cost my mum and day £110 a year for me as a junior back in the 1990s.

I'm just looking at clubs around me and the junior memberships are so much cheaper, was shocked at seeing £400. It does seem that my current club and old club are ridiculously cheap for juniors, most of the others I'm looking at in my area are over £100 with Whitley Bay wanting £291 for 16-17 being the most expensive I've looked at but most are well under £200.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Same here, initial costings to upgrade all pipes, fairway, tee, greens and heads is north of £1 million. This doesn’t include borehole pumps, tank or pumps from tank which have all been recently upgraded.
This being said, we have used the fairway watering a lot over the last 10 years to great effect. We hardly needed to use it at all for the first 20 years after installation.

Ours in total cost just over £1mil and that was everything , including upgrading the green complex’s and tees etc

 

[The Squirrel]

We're £150 for juniors and for that they get monthly group coaching included, a tournament with a free meal after, and a couple of free indoor sim sessions over winter.

All but the most short-sighted clubs want to encourage junior golf and all but the most hard-hearted accept that a small fraction of their membership will gently subsidise youngsters. When you consider demographics and that (blunt but true) one severe winter 'flu season would leave some clubs half empty, then all but the most stone-hearted accept there are very good reasons to try and bring youngsters into golf with as wide a net as possible and to gently subsidise junior golfers. It also gives any club that slightly greater chance of unearthing the next Rory/Tommy/Lottie/whoever which is hugely prestigious and exciting if it does happen - even if the talent never quite reaches those heights.

Unless £400 has quite a lot chucked in with it, it does seem on the steep side.

 

[D-S]

Ours in total cost just over £1mil and that was everything , including upgrading the green complex’s and tees etc

Did you put it in last year?

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Did you put it in last year?

No was over the Covid years

But also suspect we might have a smaller area

 

[D-S]

Juniors are free for parents, guardians and grandparents of full members at my club. We introduced this policy about 12 years ago. We have a thriving Junior section with a lot of very good girls and boys now in County and National squads. We won Junior Club of the year last year.
At just over £100 a head providing free membership was not very costly for the club and a well received perk for parents.

 

[D-S]

No was over the Covid years

But also suspect we might have a smaller area

Also quite a lot of inflation in the past 5 years as well I guess.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Also quite a lot of inflation in the past 5 years as well I guess.

Guess also depending on how much coverage you are looking at and the amount of sprinklers -

LS irrigation is who we used and they did a great job mapping it out