Competition Fees

[ScienceBoy]

Would you still pay a competition fee if it was only to cover costs and therefore be much cheaper. Downside there is no prize? (trophies are not prizes!)

I certainly would, I was never in it for the money or the free gear. They were nice but I would be just as happy with a cheaper entry fee and no prize money.

 

[Oxfordcomma]

I had to go and look it up, it just comes off the competition account and when the account is empty I put more money in it.

£3.50, anyway, which includes 2s. Not very much in the grand scheme of things so I'm happy to pay it.

 

[Berger]

£4 comp, optional £2 for twos.

For a while now I've been wondering where the comp fee goes. Every Saturday we have between 170 and 200 entries which would give a pot of £680-£800. £240 goes on shop voucher prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Approx. £100 for the starter / ranger. That leaves over £300 every week.

We were discussing this recently and one of the guys playing told us about a competition he won last year and was told by the club that there would be no trophy as they decided there wasn't enough money to buy one. That just doesn't seem right to me.

On on the plus side, I won £40 for having a two a few weeks ago. The twos winnings are normally £10-15.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

£3 for the comp £1 for 2s

Where does the money go? Easy enough to answer now its my responsibility lol

We pay out a portion to the winners and the rest goes to cover costs over the year. The main costs we have are the software system for handicapping, having the boards in the clubhouse updated, trophies and engraving plus a few other committee costs and some support for the club captain

Much appreciatted, not bothered about the amount and your breakdown is very reasonable imo, I was just surprised that a portion of ours covers staff costs, I believed they would be budgetted for from membership fees etc,

 

[fundy]

Much appreciatted, not bothered about the amount and your breakdown is very reasonable imo, I was just surprised that a portion of ours covers staff costs, I believed they would be budgetted for from membership fees etc,

Ours are kept separate as a proprietary club, all the staff costs etc are covered by them in the running of the business.

Committee is really just to run comps, matches, presentation evening etc there again we do our own sign in for comps etc rather than the pro shop doing it as happens in a lot of clubs

 

[Lambchops]

mine is 400kc (about 11quid) covers trophies/prizes, breakfast, lunch and dinner

 

[patricks148]

A silver trophy would be £3 then £1 for each sweep and 2's. a straight medal is £1 and again 2's and sweep.

 

[backwoodsman]

£3 for the comp and an optional £2 for the 2's . Comp money is split into divisions then paid out to first three places in each. Club retains a slice of it - not sure of the percent, but the amount is always djsplayed on the results sheet. 2s money is shared out in full - and goes onto your pro-shop account

 

[Oddsocks]

£7, but most of the money goes back to the members in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, cut of the 2's pot. I think £2.00 goes to the club which mostly funds trophies

A decent medal of 60 would put about £300 into the pot. This will see the winner take about £75, £50 for 2nd, £25 for third , the rest goes into the twos pot although I'm sure of only one or two two's come in they tend to add more to the top 3 slots otherwise one two could end up with £100+ Although this rarely happens

 

[fenwayrich]

Entry fee £3, with an optional £1 for 2's. Of the £3, 30p goes to the Pro, £1.50 for 'admin' and £1.20 goes in the prize pot.

 

[DCB]

I see this one cropping up regularly and I have always wanted to ask, what do you guys pay your subs for ? Surely a club run competition, other than an Open competition, should be included within your annual subs. Okay, twos sweep etc will be different, but, they are usually run by the Pro not the club. I just think that over the course of a season, paying an extra £X on top to enter club competitions is taking the mick.

Needless to say, we don't have entry fees to enter club comps, other than an Open Comp.

 

[Big_G]

Our comp entry fee has just been increased from £3 to £3.50, (first increase in 10 years) 2's optional £1.50, so a nice round fiver

A nice trophy, and credit in the pro-shop for the winners

 

[Big_G]

I see this one cropping up regularly and I have always wanted to ask, what do you guys pay your subs for ? Surely a club run competition, other than an Open competition, should be included within your annual subs. Okay, twos sweep etc will be different, but, they are usually run by the Pro not the club. I just think that over the course of a season, paying an extra £X on top to enter club competitions is taking the mick.

Needless to say, we don't have entry fees to enter club comps, other than an Open Comp.

Not sure if I like this idea or not

If this was adopted at our club then I imagine the membership fee would have to be increased to cover the cost of trophies/prizes. Would this then deter potential new members from joining, needing to pay a larger fee up front, rather than a couple of quid every weekend?

Also I imagine the non-competition playing members would be up in arms about the increase, or you would maybe have to invent a new non-comp membership category?

 

[fundy]

I see this one cropping up regularly and I have always wanted to ask, what do you guys pay your subs for ? Surely a club run competition, other than an Open competition, should be included within your annual subs. Okay, twos sweep etc will be different, but, they are usually run by the Pro not the club. I just think that over the course of a season, paying an extra £X on top to enter club competitions is taking the mick.

Needless to say, we don't have entry fees to enter club comps, other than an Open Comp.

Pay my subs to be a member of the club and to cover all my green fees for the year. Every club Ive been a member of over 25+ years has always had comps as an additional cost to the subs.

As for taking the mick, you still pay it, you just pay for it up front in your subs rather than separately in each comp as we do, not sure how the difference is taking the mick

If I didnt play in comps but was subsidising everyone who did, now thats more likely to be seen as taking the mick imo

 

[MizunoGreyhound]

I see this one cropping up regularly and I have always wanted to ask, what do you guys pay your subs for ? Surely a club run competition, other than an Open competition, should be included within your annual subs. Okay, twos sweep etc will be different, but, they are usually run by the Pro not the club. I just think that over the course of a season, paying an extra £X on top to enter club competitions is taking the mick.

Needless to say, we don't have entry fees to enter club comps, other than an Open Comp.

Our pro would have a fit at this. We pay £3 to enter the normal medal or stableford comps, which includes the twos pot. The clum tale a small percentage for engraving trophies and gold leaf for the honours boards, plus a silver teaspoon if you win the monthly medal. Prize money broken down divisionally, hence winning div 2 is the most profitable as that is the division most people enter from at our place. ALL prize money goes onto pro shop account. Nice fiddle/earner for the pro on top of his large retainer. Most members think it should go onto your club card as that is where the funds are taken from at point of entry, but the powers that be will not entertain that for fear of upsetting the pro.

 

[Fyldewhite]

Summer Saturdays are structured around 5 board comps. For each there are 4 qualifying rounds and a final/subsidiary. We pay £3 for every round except the finalists on the day. We don't run a 2's sweep except on the final/opens. Creates a pot of around £1500 for each comp and around 70% of this comes back in prizes on the day of the final....presentation same night, big social event etc. We pay 1st,2nd,3rd,4th,B/G for both final and subsidiary. The other 30% goes towards team hospitality, Open Comps, subsidy of less well supported events. In winter it all comes back in prizes (2 divisions).