Member Guest Pass at your club?

[TigerBear]

Been told by a club official that as of next season our member's guest pass price will be increased to £20 a head. Causing a bit of a stir within the membership. Can understand why people feel mistreated as subs having taken quite a hike too over the last couple of years.

By way of background, only a few years ago, pre-Covid, we had members complimentary guest passes which was then scrapped, price set a £5 per head, then hiked up year on year.

Out of interest what's the policy at your club?

 

[Neilds]

Usual green fee is £45, members guest is £27 but you can buy a book of vouchers at renewal time which includes a couple of free tickets

 

[Teebs]

1 free 4ball (so 3 guests) per year, £20 after that (weekday/weekend). Supposed to be a cap on 6 guests per year, but in reality, no-one cares at all.

Weekend visitors fee is £70..

 

[Albo]

£20 a time at one course, £25 at the other.

 

[Mel Smooth]

We just have visitors and members guest rates - all reasonable imho.

We have been given a complimentary guest green fee this year as a thank you to the members for sticking with the club through the grotty winter we've had - so taking a mate along today for a free round.

 

[moogie]

£16 to sign a guest in at my club.
Costs me £23 to play as a members guest at my mates course I play quite a bit at (gosforth)

 

[adasko]

Visitors fee is 175 guest 25. We can only have 24 guest 12 in the summer 12 in the winter

 

[upsidedown]

Half price of the green fee

 

[Mandofred]

£25 I think.

 

[Orikoru]

Our members guest rate is only a tenner less than the full rate according to the website (£40 instead of £50). In the week it's even less reduction, £36 instead of £40. I was given three vouchers when I renewed membership for free guest fees though. Have used one already and will be using a second this Tuesday.

 

[clubchamp98]

Ours is £20 bargin for the course.
It’s £70 visitors weekend.

Used to get a free fourball but club stopped it., false economy imo as the three lads I used to bring from my old club spent a good few Bob in food and bar afterwards.

Multiply that by say half the membership that’s a lot of money.

 

[jim8flog]

18 hole course - £35 (half the visitor rate)
9 hole course £20 (just over half the visitor rate)

 

[RichA]

Ours is £30 at the weekend for visitors and £27 for members' guests. We're supposed to get vouchers including a free guest round but nobody has seen such a voucher for a few years.
If I played as a visitor I think our course would perhaps be worth £15 for a round between August and June. It's normally quite nice in July when the grass and weed growth slows down a bit but before the fairways turn to concrete.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Green fee £30, guest rate £20.

If the guest rate is too cheap then it can be a disincentive to join. Someone may just keep playing with a mate. I know there are usually limits on that but it depends how well that is enforced.

I think £15-20 is a good compromise.

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

Our member-guest includes amenities beyond the golf--cart, drinks, dinner, etc.--and is thus quite expensive (I don't know the exchange rate in Pounds Sterling).

It happens to be the only club-organized event in which I play.
Otherwise, it's just breakfast and weekday social golf with my fellow-geriatric friends.

I play in the member-guest to reciprocate another member-guest to which I'm invited.
Sometimes, the latter is the only round that I play away from our club all year.

 

[SteveJay]

Think our guest rate is £25, but if you pay the annual membership in full as a single payment, you get 3 complimentary green fees for guests.

 

[Singlefiguregokfer]

Full cost is £120, guest rate £35

Course I’m looking to join is £190 full rate, guest rate £30

 

[TigerBear]

Thanks all, really interesting to see the different rates from clubs all across Britain

 

[Oddsocks]

Full GF is £85, guest is £35.

In the op’s position, I would rather the guest fee goes to £20 and the increase in subs is softened rather than my guests playing for a £5’er add my going up by xx%. They are guests and £20 isn’t a high cost fee, in the south you could get a twilight 9 hole ticket for that so it still seems good value.

 

[Slab]

Roughly £150 full rate, I think its about £20-£25 for a member to sign a guest on