golf club joining fees

[Mowgli]

Gripe time,

Is it just me or am i being Wrong ?

Would like to join a Royal Navy run golf course were if you are serving member of the navy you pay £40 a month for your membership and no joining fee.

However if you are in the Army like myself and wish to join the club i have to pay £55 a month which i have not got a problem with and am glad to pay were i have a gripe is the fact that they want me to pay several hundred pounds for the joining fee even through i am a member of the armed forces. (Civilians have to pay the same joining fee) being a serving member in the armed forces i don't think i should have to pay the fee (but hey that's just me).

I know it is normal when joining a golf club and some joining fees are out of this world. This for me is a matter of principle am i right or wrong to think like this.

Regards

Mowgli

 

[Teetotal]

I have heard about this before and think it's wrong. You're all working for the same company so to speak. Does the armed forces have its own golf course?

 

[Mowgli]

Yes many garrisons towns have their own golf clubs however i am not posted in a garrison. I am posted in Plymouth which as a lot of courses in the area but no Army ones.

 

[chipin1]

Boo... shame on the navy. This seems a bit harsh.

Is the club a business like any other or is it non profit making?

 

[Golfer2112]

That does seem unfair. It might be written into the club's constitution that there are two rules: one for Navy people and one for everyone else. You fall into the second category.

 

[madandra]

Mowgli make a stance .....


HAND IN YOUR WEEKS NOTICE AND LEAVE and if there is ever another war and we loose you could always say ´ya shoulda let me join that club without the fee´

 

[John_Findlay]

Does this Navy club have a ladies' section? Surely playing a round with the WRENS would be worth the joining fee alone?

 

[Mowgli]

Have you ever seen the wrens in the Navy

 

[thebelgie24]

navy lot are just jealous cause you army boys are better in bunkers !