Bar spending

[Jigger]

I’ve been off the beer the last month and it’s saved me a fortune!

 

[Hobbit]

I remember doing the bar accounts at a previous club. Admittedly they were a few exceptional numbers but we had 2 guys who spent over £8k a year. One guy was in 7 days a week, and could he sup! 7-8 pints a tea time apart from Sat/Sun when it was lunchtime. Then he’d be out of an evening - divorced.

 

[paddyjk]

Idk but it's 20% off if I use my card and 25 at the range so I top up as and when. It's easy to do via hdid app.
One thing I don't agree with is a forced levy, if the facilities are good then people will spend.

 

[Voyager EMH]

"Card Balance" appears on main page after login. This is just bar-card completely separate from pro shop and comp fees/prizes.

I had not before today noticed the facility to check spending history.

June and July total spend £10.69. I handed over a £1 coin or two some of the time in addition to that.

The joys of being a tea-guzzling ahld gadgie.

Most of my alcohol consumption is done at home under controlled conditions set by the most important person.
I like the idea of having more days without alcohol than with alcohol through the week, but it never seems to happen.
But I can claim to be blame-free for that.

 

[jim8flog]

Hard to say really because all comp entry fees come my card as well as drinks.

Coffee (which I drink the most) costs £1.85 and I have at least two mugs every time I play (2-3 days a week) plus I am at the club just to socialise another couple of days plus I probably have a couple of pints a week, £8.

Rounded up approx £25 a week.

Add to that what goes in to the kitty from which I get a drink.

 

[Budds]

Digressing off tangent a little but I’ve been carrying out some work at our golf club refurbishing the ladies locker room.
While there, a dirty warter pump failed in the kitchen, so I replaced it for them - cost - almost £700, That’s the majority of what I pay in subs per year!! Speaking to the manager and he was saying the overheads on the place are eye watering, we have 48 holes plus a driving range. I normally do about £1000 a year off my card, couple of drinks after a round for me and buggerlugs, the odd bar of chocolate and occasional meal, but it all helps our clubs to survive.

Fat fingers, or does it also handle verrucas? Golf club overheads are indeed massive. The rental or capital cost of mowers, and their mintennce, is otherwordly.

 

[Teebs]

£70 on bar and comps since May.
£379 in the Pro Shop on a Bushnell V6

 

[upsidedown]

£600 top up so far but in the spending it includes match meals and club functions .

 

[Swango1980]

£40 a month is a bargain, although I don't know how often you play. There are definitely guys at my club, who are still their hours after their rounds, that spend more than £40 a day, at least 4 times a week, at the bar. Add to that, they can lose over £30 in the golf on a bad day, as they play for relatively high stakes (compared to your normal £1-2 fiddles)

I reckon I spend around £30-£60 a month, and I play most Saturday and Sundays. I also get lunch each time, although I tend to drink £2 cups of coffee rather than alcohol

 

[Deleted member 25575]

I guess my spending behind the bar averages out at maybe £7-£10 per month. I play 4+ times a month and go into the club house less than once a month I’d say.
I have 2 golf club memberships, which I don’t feel bad about considering others are spending as much or more behind the bar as I am on another membership

 

[GB72]

I guess my spending behind the bar averages out at maybe £7-£10 per month. I play 4+ times a month and go into the club house less than once a month I’d say.
I have 2 golf club memberships, which I don’t feel bad about considering others are spending as much or more behind the bar as I am on another membership

I was pretty similar. I did not like my old clubhouse for several already well debated reasons. I also have to drive to the club and back and so never touch alcohol. If I stopped then it was for a coffee then off but even that got less as the club charged more and more for what I would describe was at best an average coffee. I love coffee and would happily pay for a quality cup, which this was not. I played with people in my village so went to the pub there with them instead if we wanted a drink.

At my old club, the kitchen opened early and so I would spend more as my Saturday morning treat was a good bacon roll and a couple of coffees before playing. My last club did not open the kitchen until after 9 so I did not bother.

I was always uncomfortable with the fact that the club had a full car park every Saturday, plenty enjoying beers and wine in the club house but if I drove past later in the day or that night, the car park was always empty.

 

[Springveldt]

"Card Balance" appears on main page after login. This is just bar-card completely separate from pro shop and comp fees/prizes.

I had not before today noticed the facility to check spending history.

June and July total spend £10.69. I handed over a £1 coin or two some of the time in addition to that.

The joys of being a tea-guzzling ahld gadgie.

Most of my alcohol consumption is done at home under controlled conditions set by the most important person.
I like the idea of having more days without alcohol than with alcohol through the week, but it never seems to happen.
But I can claim to be blame-free for that.

I very rarely drink in the house, I've still got 6 bottles of Peroni left from the 24 case that someone got me for Christmas. I don't got out to any other pub either so my 1 pint after a round is basically my social drinking for the week.

 

[Paperboy]

I've topped up £620 so far this year, including the £120 bar levy. But our comp entry comes of our bar card as well.

Also had £35 from sweep money from competitions.

 

[Voyager EMH]

I very rarely drink in the house, I've still got 6 bottles of Peroni left from the 24 case that someone got me for Christmas. I don't got out to any other pub either so my 1 pint after a round is basically my social drinking for the week.

My alcohol drinking is like a football career.
Very intense - lived and breathed it from 16 to 35 in a professional way - dedicated. Some mishaps and injuries - stories to tell.
Bit of a has-been from 35-50.
50-60 rather sad - not like it was - remembering the glory years.
Now I'm like a grandpa who kicks a little ball back and forth with a grandchild in the back garden.

 

[Hendy]

I was just having a browse through my bar account spending and realised I’ve been spending on average £40 a month! I’ve played in a couple of club pairs matches so will have bought 4 drinks on those occasions, plus played a full weekend a couple of times, but I’m still shocked. It’s so easy to just top it up by £20, before you know it another top up’s needed.

Anyone want to say how much they spend and whether it’s more or less than they’d like to?

Had a guy at my club on his account for last year had 963 Jamesons lol. And normally has a few pints before he starts on the Jamesons

 

[Barking_Mad]

£5 this year

 

[clubchamp98]

I have spent nowhere near what I used to pre covid.
we seem to have got out of the habit of having a pint after golf.
spent more on lunch before we play.

 

[pendodave]

£475 on the card since Jan....
So, roughly 100 pints of beer.
Somehow, that doesn't seem toooo bad. Tbf, I'm probably up there at least 3 times a week in the summer. And I normally cycle/walk&train, or hitch a lift home.