HomerJSimpson
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I have no issue what you drive and my club doesn't either. We have some Aston Martins alongside plumber vans. Turn up, be good company on and off the course. Doesn't matter your background, job, or wealth to me
Joining fees creeping back ?
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Plenty of plumbers and builders vans for the members and Aston's and Bentley's for the visitors ?
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Plumbers don’t take their Astons to golf. It’s easier to get the clubs and trolley in a van.
Foxholer
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Course I play at has a very eclectic mix of vehicles - from White Vans to Bentleys/RRs and a couple of Black Cabs that normally indicate a great value course. No separate Member/Visitors park either.
HomerJSimpson
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Still find that a random golf irritation when you turn up at a club and are required to park in a visitors car park, usually a long way from the clubhouse, some I've been to in poor repair and badly lit. I prefer the attitude a lot of clubs now have that if you're a visitor you're a member for the day
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Can't think of any Aston owning plumber's around this part of the world..
Foxholer
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I've never belonged to a club that has separate member/visitor car parks.
Bamberdele21
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Mine says "Please pass quietly. The Asylum Seekers are sleeping"
No it doesn’t. I find them all as cringeworthy as the next.
Can’t tell if this post is serious or not?
sunshine
Well-known member
In the home counties, the plumbers and builders drive Astons and Bentleys
sunshine
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Caviar and champagne? Honestly I have no idea how much it costs to build a tee.
Depreston
Club Champion
There's absolutely no way i'd pay a 1k+ joining fee for any club in the North East
I'm trying to think where could possibly get away with that figure up here. Close House and Rockcliffe are the only two but I don't believe either have one, although I could be wrong. Would you add any others to that list?
Depreston
Club Champion
Nope i think they would be the only two with joining fee potential. Sharpley might just because they come across as preferring the green fee income to actually having members
Swango1980
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Not sure how far up in the North East we are talking, but I googled best courses in North East, and the list came back:
1. Ganton
2. Alwoodley
3. Moortown
4. Lindrick
5. Seaton Carew (I've actually played there)
6. Berwick-upon Tweed
7. Close House (Colt)
8. Fulford
9. Pannal
10. Hallamshire (due to play there in September)
Not sure what the fees are at these places (the first few don't publicise it on their website).
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
The obvious question is...Why?
I might guess something to do with weather…but I’d say that that would be more reflected in your subs.
SammmeBee
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Nor would I…..too cold and too far to travel up from civilisation…..
1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 are all Yorkshire, not the NE. Most people up here class the NE as Northumberland, down to Teeside.
I presume 6 is Goswick. For there and Seaton Carew I suspect the wealth in the area doesn't justify a £1,000 joining fee, part of the equation surely? Close House is a money course, very nice by the way, and I suspect those joining would find the extra if necessary. At the moment, as far as I know, they don't have to.
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Nicer weather up North judging by the end of the world stuff that's hit the South over the weekend.
Depreston
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moogie
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There's 3 that I know of mate
Close house
£2344 + £768 JF
The Northumberland
£1525 + £800 JF
Whitley Bay
£816 + £575 JF
Not sure if any/many others....?
