matt611
Head Pro
What gets me are the courses outside of the south east where the membership fee is £600-800 and yet the green fee for one round is £100+. Great for the members and good luck to them if they can charge that
Is golf cheaper the further North you go?
- Thread starter louise_a
- Start date
My club doesn't allow green fee players, except as members guests, and I will be paying about £1800 this coming year for that exclusivity. However, probably worth it, to avoid being crowded off the course by slow playing societies and hackers!
Last edited:
Royal Dornoch would be the most northerly premier course. Its less than £500 for membership and has a waiting list and joining fee and you have to be a member of the Struie course for 2 years before you can apply to joing the championship course.
This is for a club that is top 10 in the world, it gets almost fifteen thousand visitor green fees a year at over £120 a pop. the membership are heavily subsidised, but if you want to play during the day in the summer its rammed with 4 balls of visitors and you are looking at a 5 hour round most of the time.
its an area of low population and limited jobs, so most of the population of somewhere like Dornoch is retired folk, with the largest town of any sort of population is Inverness 50 miles away, which only has a population of 70K at most.
This is for a club that is top 10 in the world, it gets almost fifteen thousand visitor green fees a year at over £120 a pop. the membership are heavily subsidised, but if you want to play during the day in the summer its rammed with 4 balls of visitors and you are looking at a 5 hour round most of the time.
its an area of low population and limited jobs, so most of the population of somewhere like Dornoch is retired folk, with the largest town of any sort of population is Inverness 50 miles away, which only has a population of 70K at most.
My club doesn't allow green fee players, except as members guests, and I will be paying about £1800 this coming year for that exclusivity. However, probably worth it, to avoid being crowded off the course by slow playing societies and hackers!
Would rather see clubs becoming more open to visitors. For years we were an exclusive club too with members guests only but we've opened the Pandora's box as you seem to see it and do you know what, by controlling when they can play, it's made no difference to most members, we can still play when we want and the club are getting the revenue from the green fees. Sometimes clubs need to look at wider pictures
G.U.R
Head Pro
I can't afford to be a member around here, not and pay the mortgage, bills and raise a family. Plenty of courses with offers of cheap green fees plus I play in a friends society so do get to play but would love to join a club. Job insecurity is also another contributing factor.
G
guest100718
Guest
Quite a wide choice really round this way really. 700 will get you on to a local muni for the year, but typical seems to be around the 12 - 1300 mark for the likes of John O gaunt, Letchworth, Knebworth and WGC etc. All pretty similar type clubs.
Played some nice clubs in the southwest that were a lot less per year.
Played some nice clubs in the southwest that were a lot less per year.
Last edited:
Ian_Bristol
Head Pro
I would rather pay a bit more for membership and be able to turn up and play rather than have 20 people waiting at the first/tenth tee, not that my club is more for membership than others in my area.
Good old Northumberland. The nicer Parkland courses are around £570-£650. Less grand, but still decent, courses around £450-£500. You can get the odd 9 hole course cheaper and equally you can pay more at certain places. We are however very lucky in the fees we have to pay.
I do enjoy golfing trips down in North Yorkshire, the next place down you might say. The fees in clubs there seem to be closer to the £800 mark, getting nearer to £1,000 as you reach Leeds. I may be out of date there, they may be slightly higher but this was the range a couple of years ago certainly.
I do enjoy golfing trips down in North Yorkshire, the next place down you might say. The fees in clubs there seem to be closer to the £800 mark, getting nearer to £1,000 as you reach Leeds. I may be out of date there, they may be slightly higher but this was the range a couple of years ago certainly.
IanG
Tour Rookie
We too have lots of paying visitors which keeps our subs modest. Their tee times are restricted to 10-4 on a weekday and Sunday after 12.30. To be honest that doesn't impact on me too much as I'm still working and mostly play on Saturdays or after work, but I know quite a few retired members find it frustrating that they can't always get on midweek without planning in advance.
Davey247
Assistant Pro
Though we have Rockliffe round the corner at around £2000, we are paying £630 which about the going rate for your average parkland in the north east.
Do Rockcliffe want members? Is it not more of a corporate course? I'm hoping to play it this year but the impression I get from people who have played there is that it is set up for a particular market and that is not the average Joe.
louise_a
Money List Winner
Interesting replies, seems to confirm it.
Taz
Journeyman Pro
All the courses I've been a member at here in the SE have been around £1100.
azazel
Assistant Pro
£330 ish for Machrihanish, which includes a £25 bar levy :thup:
Davey247
Assistant Pro
Its very much for the corporate and the stay & play market a lot like may resort courses.
I played against a member in the Nike Matchplay there a couple of years back and the members get no priority over vistors.
That said, if you are heading over for the day you'll have a great day. Its a fantastic course kept in tip top condition all year round. You can generally find deals where a round will cost £30-£40 with coffee and a sandwich before hand
Jimaroid
Journeyman Pro
I'm a member at two clubs with pretty easy access to over 7 courses in/around St Andrews, all for less than my father in law pays in Somerset for a club with one course.
One of the reasons I had to stop playing golf as a kid was the prohibitive price of membership at my nearby courses in Shropshire, when I turned 18 the jump in membership price was so much that I didn't touch a golf club until 15 years later. Scotland is a much better place to be a golfer.
One of the reasons I had to stop playing golf as a kid was the prohibitive price of membership at my nearby courses in Shropshire, when I turned 18 the jump in membership price was so much that I didn't touch a golf club until 15 years later. Scotland is a much better place to be a golfer.
richy
Journeyman Pro
I've played it a few times and honestly don't think it's anything special.
One of our local courses, The Grove near Watford, has no members at all. It is basically a very expensive P&P, which people will pay for because it once hosted a WGC tournament won by Tiger Woods! 
MendieGK
Tour Winner
And also has the British masters this year. It's a great course
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
matter of opinion that Sam, far from being great imo, pleasant enough but distinct lack of memorable holes for me
Similar threads
- Deleted member 27584
- The Lounge
