Club fees all in one vs monthly

[HPIMG]

I wanted to ask how different clubs operate with memberships. My last club would give you some free passes for guests if you paid your membership in full. I was interested in what other clubs offered to try and get members to pay in full or maybe they don’t offer anything ?

 

[wjemather]

Interest is applied if paying monthly, so it's cheaper to pay in full or 2 installments (every 6 months).

 

[moogie]

No incentives given if you pay in full at my current club.

A decade or so ago
At a previous club
If you paid in full atleast a full month before fees were due, you got a free 4 ball to bring guests
But they no longer do that either, as I've a mate there and just checked

 

[PJ87]

We pay monthly, no option is given but I know of 1 person in the whole club that pays upfront . He had to go looking for it and no discount

When you renew you get 2 guest passes

 

[robbeh32]

I pay upfront only to save interest on monthly fees they add on.

 

[D-S]

We have the fairway credit option for monthly payments but obviously this is at a cost. We also have for those that in full at renewal an early payment discount but in effect this is really a late payment penalty.

 

[nickjdavis]

Our renewal date is April 1st but occasionally the club will offer a discount if you renew and pay in full in January.

 

[chrisd]

I pay in full.

I work on the basis that the first round costs £1400 and all rounds after are free

 

[Oddsocks]

All rejoining members get a voucher book with various benefits, but no discount for lumping it up in one go. If you pay d/debit it’s via a 3rd party.

They were quite cute last year in saying that anyone who committed 1 month early to rejoining would get the membership at the previous years rate, clearly they were cautious on the cost of living situ

 

[Billysboots]

We get no benefit for paying in one lump sum. I pay monthly and just suck up the additional interest payable.

 

[IanM]

We get no benefit for paying in one lump sum. I pay monthly and just suck up the additional interest payable.

Same where I play....

...but I'd say avoiding additional charges for paying monthly is a benefit

 

[doublebogey7]

We get no benefit from paying in one lump sum. I pay monthly and just suck up the additional interest payable.

Erm, if you pay interest on monthly payments, there is a benefit to paying in one lump sum. Exactly how it works at my club.

 

[Neilds]

We get entered in a raffle for golf items, 1st prize a new driver, if we pay in full the month before fees are due

 

[Mel Smooth]

We pay 7% more for paying monthly, £72 over the cost of paying in one installment. However, I suspect the club are happy to have the more consistent income that monthly payments bring them.

There are no incentives for paying one way or the other, aside from the £72 difference as far as I am aware.

 

[KenL]

I pay using fairway credit, could pay upfront and keep meaning to do so but it rolls on before I remember to cancel it.

 

[rulefan]

We can either pay in one go or via a credit agency (with interest of course). The club gets its money straight away with either.
If we pay or sign up within a month of the due date we get 2x 4 ball gift vouchers to give to friends.

 

[SteveJay]

Paying in full at Fleetwood only brings the benefit of a couple of guest's green frees FOC. I used to pay in full, but as I wasn't always using the guest ticket I switched to pay monthly. No extra surcharge/interest is levied so better that the money is in my account earning mea little bit of interest!

 

[BiMGuy]

No difference at ours for paying in full or over 10 months. So I pay over 10 months.

 

[TigerBear]

I've heard some clubs make you pay a full season in advance if monthly.

Absolute nonsense and shamelessly money grabbing!

 

[Oddsocks]

It’s worth noting that if you are on a finance plan and for any reason the course is closed (like covid), the repayments get paused during closures.

This might seem a weird thing to flag but with courses closing as a consumer you would be protected.