Rlburnside
Challenge Tour Pro
It would take me 7 rounds to pay the same as our annual subs. £40 a round for visitors.
How many rounds
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Voyager EMH
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Weekday £35 and weekend £40. Very good value from May to October.
Not easy to get on though, as we have tee reservations for a heck of a lot of comps, matches and societies.
So £37.5 x 35 is about a full 7-day member subs.
This will go down from 35 rounds in 3 years time when my subs go down for 40 years continuous membership.
But I play about 60 to 70 rounds of golf a year. Would not suit me to be anything but a full 7-day member.
Not easy to get on though, as we have tee reservations for a heck of a lot of comps, matches and societies.
So £37.5 x 35 is about a full 7-day member subs.
This will go down from 35 rounds in 3 years time when my subs go down for 40 years continuous membership.
But I play about 60 to 70 rounds of golf a year. Would not suit me to be anything but a full 7-day member.
timd77
Assistant Pro
29 for me. Reckon I play 50+ times a year.
ExRabbit
Club Champion
c. 27 - 30 - probably better off paying for rounds last year due to bad back unless I get some more in in the next few months.
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Mel Smooth
Hacker
30 ish rounds, I'm not even sure what the summer visitors fee was this year but it's £27.50 through the winter - and the subs are £1118 for full membership - so I'd imagine the summer rate was somewhere between £35 and £40.
The lad get's junior membership until he's 18 for free though, so with that factored in, it really is great value.
The lad get's junior membership until he's 18 for free though, so with that factored in, it really is great value.
KenL
Tour Rookie
Not quite. Maybe 2 for a St. Andrew’s resident with a links ticket.
Edit…
Just checked prices. St Andrews resident links ticket is only £386. So one round is not far off an Old Course peak price round.
Not sure how much a club fee such as the New Club is on top.
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KenL
Tour Rookie
£280 subs, that’s cheap these days.
JayB
Newbie
No visitors on a Saturday so based on Sunday summer rate, 29 rounds.
Rlburnside
Challenge Tour Pro
Yes not bad for the best course in the world according to Laim off golfmates.
It wouldn’t be in my top 100
RichA
Well-known member
44 rounds at our place.
Weekday rate £20. Weekend £30.
Membership is £1100.
Weekday rate £20. Weekend £30.
Membership is £1100.
Blimey that sounds disproportionate. Your visitor rate is too cheap, imo. Doesn't encourage people to join.
KenL
Tour Rookie
These numbers are scary. I totally understand the benefits of being a club member but these figures either make the subs look too high or the visitor rate too low.
sunshine
Well-known member
This is a joke.
I’m ok with a private club charging high prices to keep membership cheap, it’s their land, business and club.
But St Andrews is a public course and the people who set prices (obviously local residents) are abusing their power to keep residents prices low.
RichA
Well-known member
People only play our course as visitors because it's the cheapest around.
It's very beautiful surroundings and a longish course but suffers from having only 2 greenkeepers looking after 240 acres.
Members love it and most play 2 or 3 times a week. One off visitors tend to leave negative reviews.
KenL
Tour Rookie
I’m ok with it as it has always been the case that locals and students are looked after.
I would like to see them introduce a Scottish (or UK) resident rate that a lot of the other top courses have done.
The Squirrel
Well-known member
If they doubled the green fee then they’d get some combination of…
1). Regular visitors turning into members rather than pay as you go - more loyal and more predictable income
2). More income from visitors
3). Fewer visitors = less wear and tear; more tee time choices
All 3 would be good. Even if visitors dropped by 50% you now have less wear and more capacity to market without losing income. (1) and (2) together may even let them hire another greenie which would make an astronomical difference to condition as just two will always be running full tilt just to do the basics; a 3rd is suddenly free capacity to launch upgrade projects. Then the reviews improve. Then more visitors so more income, so more upgrades, and a virtuous circle starts.
I don’t know exactly how you work out the maths but at £20, the visitors probably aren’t even covering their cost of wear-and-tear to the course. It seems a common theme to be honest; maybe it’s the effect of well-meaning but clueless committees, but a surprising number of courses are run with the commercial nous of a gerbil.
GreiginFife
Money List Winner
Worked it out as 12 rounds on the average of our weekday/weekend rate.
Which isn’t too bad seeing as I generally play about 10 times a month May-Sept.
Which isn’t too bad seeing as I generally play about 10 times a month May-Sept.
adasko
Assistant Pro
visitors 4 rounds at 200 pounds and we have 12 guest passes at 20 pounds each
KenL
Tour Rookie
You can only invite 12 guests in total in a year?
We can invite as many guests as we want. Only restriction is that a guest can play a max of twice a month.
adasko
Assistant Pro
yes and no. we can have 12 for each course summer and 12 for the winter.
So really 48 guests every year.
No one really saying nothing until people go really crazy on guests
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