User20204
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Anyone caught playing our place during this will get an automatic 6 month ban.
Any clubs closed ?
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backwoodsman
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Shame about Brora's troubles. It's one of my favourite courses in the UK (the view on the 9th tee has to one of the best anywhere). Only played there 3 times - would love to play there more but the round trip is just a wee bit far ...
williamalex1
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Hi , Where can that be seen or downloaded. ?? Our secretary hasn't heard anything about it
IanM
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williamalex1
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Parsaregood
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What if they aren't a member, it's hardly going to bother them ?
spotted two different guys using the practice ground today, both the twats drove there too... easy to spot the pair of knobs have personal number plates
hope the get grassed
hope the get grassed
Robster59
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A bit like those caught driving without a licence getting a ban.
If one or two possibly did go, wouldn’t then that give an injection of new members to the other one struggling?
Rlburnside
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Sorry I don’t know how to copy and post that but a article was in Thursday’s Scotsman, unfortunately our club doesn’t qualify for grant.
Andy
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Rlburnside
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To get grant we have to have a ratable value of over £17,000 our ratable value is well under that.
Rlburnside
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Thanks for posting, apparently we can’t get this grant because it doesn’t apply if a clubs rateable value is below £17,000.
williamalex1
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Thanks guys, I passed the info to our secretary, I would hope our R/V is above that
backwoodsman
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Coming from the Scottish Government - the grant is not specific to golf clubs. It's applicable across the hospitality/leisure sector. Scottish Golf were just a conduit for information - not the body making the grants
Ps: If I read the info right , although those businesses with rateable values below £17k can't apply for the £25k grant, they may be eligible for a lesser £10,000 grant
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difficult times ahead for Muir of ord, Staffpeiffer, Alness Invergordon, portmahomack, Tain, Bonnar bridge, Dornoch, Golspe, Brora and Helmsdale. Dornoch will of course be fine but all the others are in trouble, with prob Brora its not in anywhere near as at risk as all the others. was speaking to a mate from up there last night thats a member of Brora and Tain and said the article was way off the mark
I know many up there have multiple memberships as they’re much lower than we have down here, so I suppose if some have memberships at a number of those clubs, they’ll be no visible shift of new memberships and revenue to a chosen club that could come through it!
Rlburnside
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We can’t even get the £10k grant because we don’t get rural rates relief we get sports club relief but that doesn’t count.
when i started playing up here, and first a member at Tain most of the seniors where also Dornoch Brora and Golspie members or at least members at 2 clubs, trouble is thats not as common as it was. Also the steady rise in the cost of membership has caused a drop off. i know comp to down there membership is very cheap, but when i joined Tain it was £230, which isn't much but if you are a reg working guy who plays half a dozen times a year, £230 is affordable, £460 just isn't worth it for those casual players so many of those have been lost to the game or have chased lower cost elsewhere, Invergordon for instance offered people who like in the village membership for £150. Tain lost £50 members... which to me is staggering as the two courses would be like compairing an open venue to a council course. not a choice i would have made in a million years.. tough times ahead, it could get a bit of race to the bottom ahead, which is only going to mean one thing
backwoodsman
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Wasnt sure whether you'd get the rural rates thing - so was why I only said "may be eligible". Shame.
