Ryder Cup 2010 - Ticket Prices

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Having just entered the lottery for tickets to the Ryder Cup in 2010, I was shocked by the ticket prices. To attend on the Saturday will cost £100.00 PER TICKET, £20.00 to park the car. When you cost in an overnight stay, petrol etc, this will prove a very costly day out. My question is, how does this ticket price compare to other major sporting events, not just the British Open, but F1 Grand Prix, Wimbledon etc.
 
Does that include playing the course too when the RC teams are finished? :D :D

Obscene prices imo. :(

Not in the spirit of Samuel Ryders original competition. RC has turned into an awful corporate monster. :(

Can't be bothered with this silly match anyway. Golf is about Majors, it's not a team sport. ;)
 
I received a survey before the last Ryder Cup had even finished. Most of the questions came down to 'how much would you be prepared to pay' or 'what would you expect to spend on' (things like catering/parking/souvenirs)

it was obvious then that prices were going to be three figures, I'm only surprised it's not higher!

greed will kill this eventually.
 
At Valhalla I payed 864 US$ for the entire week. That included a car park which was at the expo center but there was a free shuttle service to the golf course (30 min) that worked extremly well because tickets were checked on entering the shuttle bus and we left the bus inside the golf course without having to queue up in front of the gates. Loved the experience and prices for food, drinks and merchandise articles were reasonable thanks to the favourable euro-dollar exchange rate.
 
Haven't done Wimbledon for a few years but £50 per person was most I ever paid - even for Centre in Week 2.
Open last year was £50 to £60
I think £25 for a decent day out (eg Loch Lomond, Wales Open - crowds not so big you don't get a view) maybe up to £60 for soemthing special.
£100 each to me is OTT. We live close by but don't know I'd give them the satisfaction.

AliB (a Scot, if you hadn't guessed!)
 
Wow - inflation! and on finals day there's only one match to watch.
Hope you enjoyed it - I still have it saved on the PVR!

AliB
 
Remember you only have 4 matches to watch as well so getting up close and personal aint gonna be easy!

Have a day on the ale around the pubs watching it,done that a few times and makes for a great day....in Edinburgh once the afternoon fourballs was on in a strip joint and the stripper hadn't started her shift yet so we were all glued to the screen,she arrives just as Langer had a crucial putt and was promptly told by the whole bar to sit down as we would rather watch the golf!! Comical.
 
I think it's OUTRAGEOUS.

Wholly gratuitous and disgusting.

(being without apparent reason, cause, or justification: a gratuitous price).

I've been to live golf (10+events) and sometimes, being there amongst all the other spectators is pointless.
It's NOT the same as buying a seat in the stand at a football ground/cricket bowl or snooker theatre. Given that the organisers cannot guarantee seats anywhere or that you can even see a thing in rows 3-4 deep on the "big holes"...then it's just ridiculous.

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Like everything else in life.....market forces dictate how much anything costs; folk with too much money pay almost anything to watch almost anything and those of us of modest means and looking for V.F.M. with live sport and live entertainment (theatre, music etc.) are just dragged further and further off the price range and disenfranchised permanently.

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No. 1 I won't be watching it on T.V. (again) No. 2 I won't be seeing it live (despite living a day-trip distance) and No. 3 Maybe the "free market" is not such a good idea after all. The reason why 70% of the nation is financially in the deep rough and folk are loosing their jobs left, right and centre is because unbridled capitalism is a daft notion.

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:) Ooh, did I say all that..... :D
 
Trouble is too many people understand the cost of everything but the value of nothing and will pay up, then there are those who have loads of dosh and dont even consider how stumping up big money at events increases the limitations on ordinary families finding the cash to go to the same events. A lot of people still earn less than 300 quid a week, a 100 quid is a lot to ask, yet an additional 20 quid to park followed by the £500 bottle of water and the 10,000 pound cup of soup etc etc, just puts it out of many families reach. This western world learns FA following a recession that may recur, simply because everyone got used to greed, excess, overpricing, you name it, and it still continues. I wonder if anyone thinks the bubble may still burst dramatically in the distant or not too distant future??

I would think it reasonable to pay £30 these days to stand on a lawn watching random pros do their stuff, I think £5 to park my car is reasonable for such an event, I cannot see me ever going to one of these events again with the current climate of pricing unless I win a ticket. I just dont think its worth the money when you can get so much on the TV. :( Pretty soon you will pay more for a day at a major than you will to be a member of a club for a year. They would do something very rapidly indeed if people protested for everyones benefit, by not going, boy would you see prices fall.
 
It is an unbeleivable experience and well worth the money IMO....just remember though you have to go through a ballot too to get a ticket as demand does outstrip supply, which is the fundamentals of business after all....

It's all on SKY if you don't wanna fork out......
 
To me it is not the cost of the ticket that is the real issue, it is the cost of everything else once you are there. £20 for parking is a joke. Clearly most people need to park so this is effectively an extra tax on the ticket price. The cost of food and drink at these events is even worse. I note that tournaments in the US, the Masters especially, can charge reasonable prices for food and drink so why not over here?
 
HNJ
Exactly - smaller events - Wales Open, Loch Lomond etc have a good field and cost around £30 with parking. Good day out if the weather's nice.

AliB
 
It's all on SKY if you don't wanna fork out......
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I appreciate it's on Sky, but sky can go and disappear up their derriers too.

There was a time when if you had cable (I did) you could pay to subscribe to eurosports for 1 month at a time and enjoy watching the ryder cup.

The trouble with sky is the their attitude to pay-per-view. They don't want to sell on anything at all to third party services because they want everyone to sign up at £35.50 per month.

The government are looking to make their business more and more difficult in regard to this. I'm confident it'll happen one day.

I want to watch about a eight - ten sporting events per year....I think I ought to be able to do this on a pay-per-view basis through a third party.
 
HNJ
Exactly - smaller events - Wales Open, Loch Lomond etc have a good field and cost around £30 with parking. Good day out if the weather's nice.

AliB
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Wales Open is hardly the Ryder Cup is it....it's a bit like wanting to go and see Liverpool and ending up with tickets for Acccrington Stanley really.....
 
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Wales Open is hardly the Ryder Cup is it....

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Point taken - but last time we went there was a good field - Poulter, Monty, Dougherty, Stenson - most of the European contenders.
Not Liverpool? In terms of value, better than Accrington Stanley.
Ye pays yer money ...
aliB
 
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