How many rounds

[Backache]

Stimulated by a thread elsewhere where it is taking nearly 50 rounds before the cost of annual subs is the same as paying for you r golf on a per round basis I was wondering how it varied amongst forum members.

I realise that there are other benefits to being a member of a club such as practice organised comps , social life priority booking etc but as a simple metric how many rounds do you have to play to pay back your annual sub. I am taking the price of a round as being between weekday and weekend rate in the summer excluding twilight rates etc.

For our club it is around 17 rounds

 

[Neilds]

30 rounds at my place - I took a rough average of the rates, weekend, weekday, twilight and county card and compared to full 7 day member with no age reductions.

 

[upsidedown]

22

 

[Imurg]

About 27 rounds for my place....takes me about 5 weeks to start getting my money's worth...

 

[spongebob59]

26

 

[srixon 1]

About 30.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

About 22

 

[Orikoru]

I'll go approximate... at members guest rate it'd be about 40 rounds a year before it pays for itself, or at full visitor rate I think 32.

 

[The Squirrel]

No visitors Saturdays. At Sunday summer rates: 12.5.

Our winter rates plummet by 65% for the 4 months when mats are in force though so the equation would look rather different then.

 

[IanM]

Full membership at full visitor rate, it's a smidge under 10. At guest rate it's 30.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

20. I hadn't really looked at it properly before but that's made me feel very happy. I've definitely played way more often than that.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Full membership at full visitor rate, it's a smidge under 10. At guest rate it's 30.

Presumably there are limits on how many times someone can play as a guest though?

My first club only allowed a guest to play 5 times. Not sure about my current place . 5 seems reasonable, possibly generous. If you want to play somewhere more than that, join and support them properly.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

30 at normal visitor summer rates.
There are limits on members guests playing.

 

[sunshine]

Tricky to know what visitor rate to apply. I play weekends but if I wasn't a member I would never fork out the full peak visitor rate for my course. I also suspect we discount the peak rate for many visitors to make it look like a good deal.

Anyway, at peak rates its 20 rounds.

 

[sunshine]

Waiting for someone from St Andrews to comment: 1 round.

 

[jim8flog]

26 at standard visitor rate.
However visitors cannot play on a Saturday unless a members guest.

Checking it out I had not realised we had reduced our visitor green fees to the current amount (£50)

 

[IanM]

Presumably there are limits on how many times someone can play as a guest though?

Not published or anything I'm aware of.

 

[D-S]

Weekends around 20, county card (weekdays) around 40, members guest 47 but you can only play 6 rounds as a guest so irrelevant.
I haven’t voted as not sure which the answer was,

 

[kp17]

18 rounds at the Scottish resident’s rate. Quite good actually first I’ve checked that

 

[nickjdavis]

Its between 25 and 35 depending on playing weekend/midweek and factoring in some reduced winter rate rounds.

I easily play 3 times more than that in a year.