Blue in Munich
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On the other side of the road?
Main entrance; the other side already have gates preventing vehicular access.
On the other side of the road?
To tidy up part of the hearsay, we have 550 members, of which 370 are full, paying just under £1k each..call that approx £360k, the test of the membership income is from flexi & junior fees which come in at approx £15k..so £360k is the guaranteed income (subject to everyone renewing) this is woefully short of the £500k you mention! The funds aren’t there, not as being represented anyway.It’s not quite as you say “Garry”’! We’re looking to fund £400k, and actually the figures are fine, approx 500 members that’s £500k - what’s your problem mate. I’m paying my membership regardless of and CH rumours
I play at Tenterden Golf Club, have done for over ten years.
They’ve sent out a message to members that it won’t survive unless we pay up our subs now (in full), they’re all due shortly. Goodness knows why they need all the cash in one go when the overheads have reduced hugely, they must know that members are having it hard at the moment too. They reckon they need it for immediate cash flow and payment of furloughed staff because they won’t get the money from the government for months even though other businesses have that cash coming in already (smells a bit fishy to us lot) They’re a secretive bunch that run it and apparently they misrepresented financials to the members when trying to borrow money (to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds) to push through a new club house that pretty much no one wants, other than them, it’s their ivory tower.
They’re not coming forward with any substantial plan for us despite being asked...a lot of our swindles reckon they’re going to leave, apparently Chart Hills locally may offer TGC members 50% off to join them.
Shame Tenterden is a nice little club but has no loyalty towards it members, the committee members have had a sniff of power and it’s gone straight to their heads. ?
Stay safe people - we’ll be back golfing in our two balls in a few weeks
Without wishing to take this thread off track I just have to say I am amazed that any club can survive with so few members.Our club is down to 250ish members - like a lot of clubs in Scotland we're struggling. We have a big old clubhouse and 2 courses (an 18 and a 9) to maintain. We're only just staying afloat and had to sell some land recently to pay the overdraft. I'm quite happy for them to keep the money and get no special arrangement as I do feel loyalty to the club and enjoy playing there. I hope as many people do that as possible as if not we could go under. I realise I'm lucky to still be working on full pay and that there might be others who are losing money and maybe were struggling to pay their fees in the first place and the club might need to look at giving them something back if they ask but that could then open the floodgates. So far I've not had anything except an email towards the end of March asking those who hadn't already paid to pay.
Virtually no visitors. We're out of the way with no through traffic and not special enough for people to go out of their way to play our courses. There are a lot of courses up here with this number of members. I'm pretty sure the club in the next town is down to 150 - they might not survive much longer. Again, don't want to get off topic but we live in an area with 80000 people and have 6 courses and another, at least 7, within a 30 min drive. There aren't enough youngsters taking up the game to sustain the number of clubs (there must be a thread somewhere about that). A lot of clubs will cease to exist in the next 20 years.Without wishing to take this thread off track I just have to say I am amazed that any club can survive with so few members.
Must need plenty of visitors to help make ends meet.
£790What's your annual fees?
Hats off to your Club and your Committee for keeping the club going in those circumstances.Virtually no visitors. We're out of the way with no through traffic and not special enough for people to go out of their way to play our courses. There are a lot of courses up here with this number of members. I'm pretty sure the club in the next town is down to 150 - they might not survive much longer. Again, don't want to get off topic but we live in an area with 80000 people and have 6 courses and another, at least 7, within a 30 min drive. There aren't enough youngsters taking up the game to sustain the number of clubs (there must be a thread somewhere about that). A lot of clubs will cease to exist in the next 20 years.
Virtually no visitors. We're out of the way with no through traffic and not special enough for people to go out of their way to play our courses. There are a lot of courses up here with this number of members. I'm pretty sure the club in the next town is down to 150 - they might not survive much longer. Again, don't want to get off topic but we live in an area with 80000 people and have 6 courses and another, at least 7, within a 30 min drive. There aren't enough youngsters taking up the game to sustain the number of clubs (there must be a thread somewhere about that). A lot of clubs will cease to exist in the next 20 years.
Not to sure about that!I think culturally things will change after this pandemic. Golf and fishing will be the go to past times and watching teams sports in stadiums will struggle. I am not sure where football can go from here. Travelling to the ground, queuing for food, beer and entrance to the ground. Massive queues for toilets, everyone invading your personal space. Rugby is the same. I still don’t understand why fishing is not allowed.
Not to sure about that!
People have short memory’s.
If lockdown ended tomorrow the PL grounds would be full Saturday.
No other sport is allowed so why would fishing be exempt.?
No spectators , nobody else touches your equipment , you can do it alone.
Think of any other sports that applies to?
I'm a season ticket holder too and was discussing this with my dad (STH and OAP). I wonder if clubs will have to greatly reduce attendances but increase the amount they charge TV companies for the rights to show the games which will then be passed onto the customers who now can't attend so will be more likely to take out the TV packages and use their ST money to pay for it. We're getting a bit off topic here - is someone going to give us a ticking off. I think we should be cut a bit of slack as there's no golf happening for us to discuss!
David Lloyd Fitness Clubs have suspended their monthly DD collection for my wife's membership. She is doing their exercises (On Demand) through their free DL app (for members only) - casting it to our telly on the wall in our back room. She doesn't feel ready to do any of their Live Classes. Don't think I'm allowed to be in the room - but maybe she'll relent as she is endlessly going on about my gut...and she's right