After a decent interview and chat on Friday night I have committed myself to a new club and completed my farewells to members at my existing club today.
The choices around me were quite restrictive with the large majority still well over £1k a year along with large joining fee's and some courses that I preferred (Beau Desert) had restrictive membership due to waiting lists, so, it made my decision a little tougher but I didn't want another year at my existing track at over £1050.00 a pop with too little qualifying comps for my liking and almost six (6) months of social golf from October onwards and I didn't want to travel too far either!
As such I have chosen to move to North Warwickshire Golf Club (link in signature), its a 9 hole Heathland course but with 18 tee's, so its not a case of going around the same 9 twice, it really does make a huge difference to most if not all the holes. Its almost the same mileage (5 miles) I'm used to but takes half the time through the back roads from my house
It isn't as 'grand' for want of a better expression than my existing clubhouse and track, but, I will more than double my qualifying rounds to close on 40+ from a miserly 19-21 which is very important to me at my stage of playing. It hasn't used a forward mat or a temp green in over 2.5yrs due to the excellent drainage and hasn't been closed at all over the wettest winter we've ever seen in this country, the only thing that closes this course is snow!
It runs an honesty bar where we serve ourselves so costs and overheads are massively saved by not having stewards and bar staff and that extra money saved is invested in the course consistently. I would say its a no frills very friendly, family-ish club with an excellent course.
I've been given courtesy immediately so I'm playing in a roll-up on Saturday morning to meet a few people and then on my 1st official new membership day (Tuesday), I'm playing at home in their B-team :thup: I've even got myself a locker already :thup:
I'm happy with this move, it will suit me with where I am in my game currently as I can throw myself at as many qualifiers as I want and more importantly, their spread out over 12 months. I recently picked up an injury and suddenly thought, if I'm out for 2 months and then we shorten the course at the end of September, I've paid £1200 for 4-5 months competitive golf This recent injury really made me think and move quicker in making this decision.
Oh, I forgot to mention, I'm getting all that and saving £400 also, £792 with no joining fee, it was a no brainer :cheers:
The choices around me were quite restrictive with the large majority still well over £1k a year along with large joining fee's and some courses that I preferred (Beau Desert) had restrictive membership due to waiting lists, so, it made my decision a little tougher but I didn't want another year at my existing track at over £1050.00 a pop with too little qualifying comps for my liking and almost six (6) months of social golf from October onwards and I didn't want to travel too far either!
As such I have chosen to move to North Warwickshire Golf Club (link in signature), its a 9 hole Heathland course but with 18 tee's, so its not a case of going around the same 9 twice, it really does make a huge difference to most if not all the holes. Its almost the same mileage (5 miles) I'm used to but takes half the time through the back roads from my house
It isn't as 'grand' for want of a better expression than my existing clubhouse and track, but, I will more than double my qualifying rounds to close on 40+ from a miserly 19-21 which is very important to me at my stage of playing. It hasn't used a forward mat or a temp green in over 2.5yrs due to the excellent drainage and hasn't been closed at all over the wettest winter we've ever seen in this country, the only thing that closes this course is snow!
It runs an honesty bar where we serve ourselves so costs and overheads are massively saved by not having stewards and bar staff and that extra money saved is invested in the course consistently. I would say its a no frills very friendly, family-ish club with an excellent course.
I've been given courtesy immediately so I'm playing in a roll-up on Saturday morning to meet a few people and then on my 1st official new membership day (Tuesday), I'm playing at home in their B-team :thup: I've even got myself a locker already :thup:
I'm happy with this move, it will suit me with where I am in my game currently as I can throw myself at as many qualifiers as I want and more importantly, their spread out over 12 months. I recently picked up an injury and suddenly thought, if I'm out for 2 months and then we shorten the course at the end of September, I've paid £1200 for 4-5 months competitive golf
This recent injury really made me think and move quicker in making this decision.Oh, I forgot to mention, I'm getting all that and saving £400 also, £792 with no joining fee, it was a no brainer :cheers:
