club hire

[bernix]

last week i was on holiday and played a round of golf with my better half. we were paired together with a couple from germany on a motorbike tour. as you can imagine they had to hire a set of clubs (have you ever tried to transport a golfbag on a motorbike?) and the club charged them 40 Euro per bag. admittedly these were comparative new Callaway BB's but all of us considered that to be excessive. i have never hired a golfbag myself because i always have mine with me - i dont possess a motorbike though - but i wonder what are the usual hire charges for a golfbag?

 

[theeaglehunter]

Depends entirely on what clubs you are hiring and from where. It could be anything from a returned £10 deposit to £50 plus your credit card kept as a deposit. It probably is a bit steep but sometimes depending on who you are flying with it can work out cheaper to hire than take your own clubs. For a decent set of clubs at a reasonable course you probably paid the going rate.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I don't think that is too unreasonable depending on where you played. It is also a captive market in that if you wanted a game and needed clubs they can charge any price (within reason)

 

[John_Findlay]

I've only ever hired once. Sun City 3 years ago. Think it was around £20-25 for a great set of Callaways. The round was only £40 at the Gary Player course where they host the Million Dollar Challenge so by comparison the club hire was dear. Better than the small fortune KLM were going to charge for transporting my own clubs though so great value. Would do so again without hesitation.

 

[medwayjon]

I dont think that is too out of shape. I have known courses where they carge £12 for a bag of boot-fair crappers and £1 a pop for a range-ball!

 

[GB72]

I do not mind paying a reasonable hire charge, what frustrates me is when you go to a course on holiday to find that all they have for hire are mismatched sets of 30 year old blades and few rusting fairway woods. I am not expecting to hire top end gear but even a cheap beginners set would be preferable to some of the clubs I have seen for hire. One of the clubs near me is equally guilty of this and as it is a pay and play course that picks up alot of tourist trade in the summer I am quite surprised.

 

[viscount17]

Only hired once, at la Quinta this Easter. Not practical to take my own for one round as this would also have meant hiring a bigger car (and the one we had was a freebie).
46 Euros for a set of Callaway X's - don't ask me which ones as I couldn't do a thing with them.
They advertise Callies, Ping, Titleist but I wasn't given a choice

 

[Cernunnos]

Never yet needed to hire clubs. I suppose if I was abroard & didn't want to risk my own clubs to airport bagage I might well hire some. I've seen clubs available for hire there is a large differrence in the quality of these from one club to another. Now as much as I'd want to play with decent bats if I were hiring, there are some very interesting looking old bats supplied at some clubs that manyof us would turn our noses up at but I will admit to curiosity about how an old rusty blade will stand up in todays game & have a hankering to try an old wooden wood set for a complete round.

There again if its a decent set I'd treat it as paying to demo a set of clubs, as sometimes at some clubs, this is clearly what you are supplied with... demo clubs.

"Would you mind if I demo'd a set of Pings today?"

For a single round of golf you'd expect to pay a reasonable sum anywhere between £5 & £30 depending on quality, however if I was playing somewhere all week I'd expect not to have to pay multipuls of this figure, otherwise you might as well buy a budget new set at the course or locally to use & then sell back to the pro.