Joining a Golf Club

[The_LHC]

enquired about channels but it was a bit too expensive. I’m not sure what a good price for a membership is i was thinking around the £650 mark? Is this a normal price

I have found a few around this price.

For Essex I'd say that's going to be stretching things a little, you might find a few but only a few, most of them will be a lot more than that I imagine, certainly if the Bristol area is anything to go by.

Now, if you were in my neck of the woods it'd be more than enough, 4-500 quid will get you Full membership at some pretty good clubs. Not Saunton obviously but I think that's only about £750 and they have two courses, you'll pay that much at least for any course around Bristol and most of them are mediocre at best...

 

[USER1999]

Any thing in Herts is going to be 1k plus, and Surrey will be more. Not sure what Essex is like.

 

[tonto768]

At my club you have to enter 3 cards your handicap 1 of which must be signed by a committee member. You can play along with any competition and this will get a member to sign a card. The competition secretary will also arrange for you to be drawn with a committee member. This also allows you as a new member to meet and mix with other members.

 

[bobmac]

At my club you have to enter 3 cards your handicap 1 of which must be signed by a committee member.

The competition secretary will also arrange for you to be drawn with a committee member.

Why?
Why a committee member?
Aren't "normal golfers" honest and trutworthy enough to sign your handicap card?

Flippin committees get right on my wick sometimes.
No offence to any committee members in here

 

[jammydodger]

I WILL have a bogy free round one day!!!

Oh no you wont

 

[The_LHC]

At my club you have to enter 3 cards your handicap 1 of which must be signed by a committee member.

The competition secretary will also arrange for you to be drawn with a committee member.

Why?
Why a committee member?
Aren't "normal golfers" honest and trutworthy enough to sign your handicap card?

Flippin committees get right on my wick sometimes.
No offence to any committee members in here

That's interesting actually, when I joined RND (a proper club), there was no requirement for that, just three cards with a member, I did mine with the same two guys in fact, whereas where I play now, which is a much newer, modern, arguably more progressive club, one of your cards must be with a committee member. I guess it depends how big/busy your committee is for one thing.

 

[Region3]

I WILL have a bogy free round one day!!!

Oh no you wont

Easy. If you have a putt for a bogey just miss it then tap in the next one.

Hope this helps.

 

[HRC99]

I'd be tempted not to join just now but join in the spring.

Take the time to get to know the courses in your area whilst "paying and playing". You'll get a good feeling for the clubs that way.

Have some lessons with the pro at your preferred choice and you'll find out more about the club whilst improving your game.

You'll also be making a more informed choice about what club to join and have more confidence as you should have improved with a winter's playing, practice & lessons.

Just make sure you can get your three cards in to get your handicap before the season starts properly around April.

 

[rickg]

I WILL have a bogy free round one day!!!

Oh no you wont

I feel a bet coming along!!

 

[rickg]

Easy. If you have a putt for a bogey just miss it then tap in the next one.

Hope this helps.

Nope....not one bit!!!!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I never get bored of playing my course. It's always a challenge and even if the golf is off the banter usually makes up for it. Nothing wrong with playing away as well to keep it fresh but considering the cost of joining there really is no place like home

 

[SwingSlow]

I live just outside Witham and am a member at Benton Hall. It's a good club (corporate), has good gym facilities and also is part of a group, which means you get playing rights at half a dozen clubs round the country.

PM me if you fancy a round (it would have to be during the week) and have a look see.

 

[SwingSlow]

Other clubs in your new area:

Braxted Park - 9 hole course in the grounds of Braxted Park. Best home-made cake in the club-house.

Benton Hall - parkland; interesting course - and a good one to learn on - teaches you to hit straight as OOB regularly features. New head-greenkeeper is making a real difference.

The Essex - Earls Colne - in the same group as Benton Hall. Had more money spent on it when built, so the drainage is a lot better (which will become increasingly important over the next 3 months). It's a flat parkland course, but each hole on the course is shaped by use of trees, so not boring.

Five Lakes - Tollesbury - 2 courses - Lakes course designed by Neil Coles. Took a pretty unprepossessing piece of Essex land and made a reasonable course out of it. It's attached to a big hotel and conference centre, so don't know what the "club" aspect of it is like.

Forrester Park - Great Totham - friendly club, I think it started life as 9 hole course and then expanded when some additional land was acquired - so some holes well shaped, others a bit of a procession up and down what was a field, but with some good views over the Blackwater estuary and some interesting 90 degree dog-leg holes. Greens and fairways usually extremely well presented.

Visitor green fees at all these courses are very reasonable (£18-ish) so worth road-testing them.

 

[MattCarter]

Thanks Swingslow will look through them. i have enquired about Benton Hall and it was too expensive so guessing Essex will be to.

Have play Braxted a lot and really like the course just not sure what the membership is like.

Will have a look at Forrester Park to see what it’s like.