Really? Your normal membership is only £360 a year and they want £200 for one month?? In that case I would be arguing the case that you never would have booked 11 rounds if you knew your membership had expired, and offer to pay one month pro-rata (£30 as you say).
Exactly it... I personally think its out of order - taking into account that during my time there I have introduced over 7 new members and organised golf days there to boost funds.
That's what it looks like to me. Otherwise £200 is plucked from the air.
No idea mate!
Yeah that's it! - I'm really tempted to tell them where to go... or bill them for my estimated rounds lost during the covid closure hahah
I assume you cancelled the ones you couldn't play?
If you haven't already, I would just write to them and explain that you were under the impression your membership was still valid, and if you knew that wasn't the case then you never would have booked so many rounds. Then offer to pay the cost of one month's membership pro-rate - looks better than refusing to pay anything, plus you can't really expect to get those rounds for free. If you speak to them positively then perhaps a compromise can be reached. If not then you might need to jump on r/LegalAdviceUK on Reddit for some free legal advice. ?
Well if they do and it is very clearly laid out in that you do not as it proverbially says have a leg to stand on.
Not for weather cancellation, or urgent commitments that couldn't be avoided...
Pity. Even with weather or urgent commitments, you should always cancel your tee times. Whether you played or not, you have booked them and the tee was reserved for you. The club could say they lost £XX of revenue for those tee times.
SOMETIMES golf isn't the biggest priority matey.
Well you definitely could have cancelled the weather ones. Will backfire now if they still insist on charging you for those.
I wouldn't have done that haha. I thought my membership ended in June - my club are saying it ended in May.
So, you may have a good reason for not paying.
When resigning someone's membership, there is the option for the club to mark them as "unfinancial" on the WHS Platform, which prevents them from joining another club on the system until the dispute is settled and the flag removed.
