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how much of an increase in your membership fee is too much???

I'm very envious of the people able to be members at very good courses for £500- £800.

Any decent course near me is over £1,100, and plenty that are more.

£615 at North Berwick would make it good value even if you only played 20 odd times in a year. I think that's brilliant.

Exactly this!!

I wouldn't be feeling upset that the prices are going up, I would be feeling rather smug that I had been paying so little for so many years!
 
most of the members are retired and have been members for some time and are all paying less than half that on the senior package.

That could be a problem in a few years time, when they pop there clogs there is going to be a financial black hole, and if membership is to much they won't get new members. That could mean another nice increase for existing members . Milk it whilst you can.👍
 
I'm very envious of the people able to be members at very good courses for £500- £800.

Any decent course near me is over £1,100, and plenty that are more.

£615 at North Berwick would make it good value even if you only played 20 odd times in a year. I think that's brilliant.

only thing is you are in an area close to london where cost of living, house prices and more importantly pay is more that 3 times what it is here.
 
Ours are going up £15 this year, roughly 5% increase. Its one of the best around me, but this year maybe a struggle to pay for so I'm having to look at my options. The increase doesn't bother me, its just I have more things to pay for this coming year.
 
most of the members are retired and have been members for some time and are all paying less than half that on the senior package.


That was a real problem at my old club. The majority of members were either on that level or approaching it yet they were the ones who played the most. Financial daftness.
 
When it's no longer value for money or I can't afford it. I've paid a lot more than I am now and thought it was VFM, and I've paid a fair bit less and thought it a bit expensive.
 
only thing is you are in an area close to london where cost of living, house prices and more importantly pay is more that 3 times what it is here.

Not necessarily so. Someone working for the same company as me, doing exactly the same job as me in Scotland gets paid exactly the the same as me.
so in those instances the guy in Scotland effectively is better off due to cheaper cost of living and more importantly cheaper golf fees than me.
 
Not necessarily so. Someone working for the same company as me, doing exactly the same job as me in Scotland gets paid exactly the the same as me.
so in those instances the guy in Scotland effectively is better off due to cheaper cost of living and more importantly cheaper golf fees than me.

where in scotland is that then?

That may be the case, but Access to London wage rates is something we just don't have in the north of Scotland.
 
where in scotland is that then?

That may be the case, but Access to London wage rates is something we just don't have in the north of Scotland.

Working and living in Central Scotland for companies with their head office in and around London for the the past 30 years or so, I've always been on the same base salary as my Southern counterparts who are at the same level/position as me.

I suppose the main thing here for you is the percentage rise in a short space of time, fantastic course or not
 
only thing is you are in an area close to london where cost of living, house prices and more importantly pay is more that 3 times what it is here.

I know that you are joking but oh I do wish that were the case...

If I lived in Glasgow I'd get paid exactly the same as I do living in Surrey...why I'm thinking of moving back up...

And I'd get a decent club membership up there for the £1650 I pay down here :)
 
Not necessarily so. Someone working for the same company as me, doing exactly the same job as me in Scotland gets paid exactly the the same as me.
so in those instances the guy in Scotland effectively is better off due to cheaper cost of living and more importantly cheaper golf fees than me.

that's me. In fact from Aug 2015 to Aug 2016 I spent maybe 20 weeks working from my motehr's home in Glasgow. My choice. My company wasn't the slightest bit bothered and my salary wasn't reduced :)
 
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Working and living in Central Scotland for companies with their head office in and around London for the the past 30 years or so, I've always been on the same base salary as my Southern counterparts who are at the same level/position as me.

I suppose the main thing here for you is the percentage rise in a short space of time, fantastic course or not

I know that you are joking but oh I do wish that were the case...

If I lived in Glasgow I'd get paid exactly the same as I do living in Surrey...why I'm thinking of moving back up...

And I'd get a decent club membership up there for the £1650 I pay down here :)

that's me. In fact from Aug 2015 to Aug 2016 I spent maybe 20 weeks working from my motehr's home in Glasgow. My choice. My company wasn't the slightest bit bothered and my salary wasn't reduced :)

central belt and Glasgow are not Inverness and Nairn though are they;)

i was offered a similar job at Glasgow Airport to what i do at HIAL and it was considerably more
 
where in scotland is that then?

That may be the case, but Access to London wage rates is something we just don't have in the north of Scotland.

You can name anywhere in Scotland or anywhere in the U.K. for that matter. There will be someone doing the same work as me, for the same pay.
 
It's basically down to market forces. If you think you can get better or equivalent elsewhere for less then time to move.

But I suspect your club knows the market and what they can get away with charging. So I suspect you'd struggle to find better at the price, so I;d stick with it even if the increase seems out of proportion.
 
You can name anywhere in Scotland or anywhere in the U.K. for that matter. There will be someone doing the same work as me, for the same pay.

I could do my job from my cousin's house in Fortrose or another's in Dundonnell - I'd still be paid the same :)

Mind you - convincing my management that I had year-round easy access to London from Dundonnell might be a bit tricky :)
 
You can name anywhere in Scotland or anywhere in the U.K. for that matter. There will be someone doing the same work as me, for the same pay.

To a degree what Patrick is saying is right though, my wife got offered a transfer to Ernest and Young in London and her wage would of trebled, a lot of the time it is where you live, it also probably depends what you do for a living.
 
I could do my job from my cousin's house in Fortrose or another's in Dundonnell - I'd still be paid the same :)

Mind you - convincing my management that I had year-round easy access to London from Dundonnell might be a bit tricky :)

Only an hour from Dundonnell to Inverness airport, plenty flights to London now as well 😀
 
Only an hour from Dundonnell to Inverness airport, plenty flights to London now as well 😀

Aye - but that hour could be just a bit tricky in the snow...if I could even get out of Dundonnell...but of course - no golf course.

Fortrose would do me just fine and dandy, with Fortrose and Rosemarkie GC looking a cracking track for membership - and £420 a year membership with no joining fee. But my Mrs won't have it. So Glasgow it'll have to be.
 
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