RangeMonkey
Active member
Well, not technically, but...
The club near me that I most wanted to join, was the one with the highest membership fees - I’m sure the two facts are closely related! But at over £1200 as a beginner, I couldn’t justify it.
One of the reasons I wanted to join is their excellent practice facilities: two purpose built short game areas, with two greens, six holes and three bunkers, an 18 hole putting green, a driving range, and full practice hole!
Then I discovered that they run a program called “access partnershipâ€.
Basically, you buy £200 of green fee credit and gives reduced green fees, discount on food in the club house, member rates on range balls, and all year round access to all practice facilities!
Don‘t tell them, but I would very happily have paid £200, just to access the facilities! The fact that the cash I’ve handed over gets me reduced rate green fees - which I’d almost certainly have been spending anyway over the next 12 months, just adds some very delicious icing to a rather nice cake!
It‘s Sunday to Friday access - no Saturday, and no comps... but Saturday is off the cards for me for family reasons, and as a complete beginner, I wasn’t planning on entering comps this coming year anyway.
The whole thing suits me perfectly!
The club near me that I most wanted to join, was the one with the highest membership fees - I’m sure the two facts are closely related! But at over £1200 as a beginner, I couldn’t justify it.
One of the reasons I wanted to join is their excellent practice facilities: two purpose built short game areas, with two greens, six holes and three bunkers, an 18 hole putting green, a driving range, and full practice hole!
Then I discovered that they run a program called “access partnershipâ€.
Basically, you buy £200 of green fee credit and gives reduced green fees, discount on food in the club house, member rates on range balls, and all year round access to all practice facilities!
Don‘t tell them, but I would very happily have paid £200, just to access the facilities! The fact that the cash I’ve handed over gets me reduced rate green fees - which I’d almost certainly have been spending anyway over the next 12 months, just adds some very delicious icing to a rather nice cake!
It‘s Sunday to Friday access - no Saturday, and no comps... but Saturday is off the cards for me for family reasons, and as a complete beginner, I wasn’t planning on entering comps this coming year anyway.
The whole thing suits me perfectly!
