Cost of Annual Membership at your Club
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I like Pottergate, but I expect their annual green fee membership will be c.£300. I'm looking at clubs charging less than £40 to hold my registration while undercutting iGolf. England Golf have started this idea with their £40 iGolf scheme. It's not a surprise that some clubs have thought: we can have some of that.
I get that but is there enough opens throughout the year to get you regular games? I would miss having the membership if I gave it up.
I thought the same until I actually did. Taken me a few years to work out that I love golf but dislike golf clubs 
(at least the ones that I have been a member of).
(at least the ones that I have been a member of).
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Easily enough to match the competitions that my club was offering. I belong to a society that plays ten times a year, and I can easily add 20-30 opens on top. I've been through the listings on Golf Empire and created myself a couple of itineraries (one that is all individual, and one a mix of individual, pairs and team). Add in a handful of social rounds (I mainly play comps) and that's a full year for me.
I played 39 rounds of golf last year but only 19 of them were at my home club. That's about £48 per round for the home fixtures. If they organised more competitions, I'd enter them all; but they don't, so I'm leaving.
I played 39 rounds of golf last year but only 19 of them were at my home club. That's about £48 per round for the home fixtures. If they organised more competitions, I'd enter them all; but they don't, so I'm leaving.
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Totally, agree.What I look for is very much different to what is on the table locally and that is fine. One day I may find the right place but I am done with settling now and am looking for the right place and atmosphere for me before i sign up again.
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It really did shock me when I heard about competitions at your place. When Phil joined (not LiverpoolPhil), he basically told me there was not one weekend singles competition in June, July and August (basically, a 3 month period throughout the best of the summer). It was all Opens and team type events. Wasn't sure how accurate that information was from him, but sounds like he wasn't far off the truth from what you say.
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That's true for August (when there are no singles comps at all), but a slight exaggeration for June and July. Between 1st May 2023 and 31st Oct 2023 there are 26 weekends but the club are only running 12 singles comps. There are 11 weekends with a pairs/team event, or an open; and three weekends with nothing at all.
In the four months from 1st Nov 2022 to 28th Feb 2023 there was a pairs winter league and one solitary Texas scramble. If you can commit to 15 weekends, and you can get in quick enough, then you can play the winter league. If you can't then there is nothing else. I don't mind not playing in the winter; but I do mind paying £80 a month to not play in the winter.
Meanwhile the seniors and ladies sections can both run full programmes throughout the year. I might rejoin when I'm old enough to join the seniors; or maybe I should have a sex change.
In the four months from 1st Nov 2022 to 28th Feb 2023 there was a pairs winter league and one solitary Texas scramble. If you can commit to 15 weekends, and you can get in quick enough, then you can play the winter league. If you can't then there is nothing else. I don't mind not playing in the winter; but I do mind paying £80 a month to not play in the winter.
Meanwhile the seniors and ladies sections can both run full programmes throughout the year. I might rejoin when I'm old enough to join the seniors; or maybe I should have a sex change.
I'd ask Brian, though that part of the world I'd imagine they must have a fair few guys in a similar situation.
I def won't be going to full membership at Nairn Dunbar, though I have enjoyed playing the winter comps. Membership up to over £800 and I think I saw the kings is over £600 too so a few have had a significant increase, not just Nairn.
I def won't be going to full membership at Nairn Dunbar, though I have enjoyed playing the winter comps. Membership up to over £800 and I think I saw the kings is over £600 too so a few have had a significant increase, not just Nairn.
Got our invoices last week. £1232 with locker. I'm still trying to decide whether just to pay it all up front like I did this year, or do the £700+£5 a play like almost everybody else does. I just hate the faff of topping up my account all the time.....I'm lazy.
It's hard to calculate my laziness rating....it's pretty high. I'm also against the £700+£5 membership.....I still think there are a few people who sneak on, they had to really zap a few people this last season for doing that. There are also big gaps in the tee times where there is only one person down and nobody knows who is going to show up because a lot of people wait until the last minute to put their names down with their mates.
The smart move would be the +£5 every time......if you get hurt or something and had to take some time off it makes sense..... I don't always do smart things.
The smart move would be the +£5 every time......if you get hurt or something and had to take some time off it makes sense..... I don't always do smart things.
I play in Cornwall when I can, and absolutely love it.
Membership there seems exceptionally good value. Newquay just £615, and The Point at Polzeath (my favourite) £690.
Irrelevant as I live 200 miles away, but would join in a heartbeat if I lived there.
Membership there seems exceptionally good value. Newquay just £615, and The Point at Polzeath (my favourite) £690.
Irrelevant as I live 200 miles away, but would join in a heartbeat if I lived there.
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My subs are due end of this month and are such that my Mrs has told me to put off paying them as we might as well have the interest accrued on the amount due 🙄