Weekly Summer Competition Fees

[3offTheTee]

Our Club has increased weekly fees this year by 33% from 3 to £4. Accept it is only £1 but the Club only pay out 80/85% in prizes the remainder being held back for engraving/ Guest Presentation Day speaker plus sundries. It was disappointing that there was no advice. The Club generates bar income from members which may be lost if they decide to go elsewhere.

What are your weekly fees and thoughts please?

 

[Lord Tyrion]

£2 for us. £4 sounds excessive when you already pay membership fees. £4 would put me off playing comps, I'd just put in cards from social games. (Bearing in mind that £4 is an even bigger leap for me so maybe that colours my opinion)

 

[HeftyHacker]

Ours are £5 for the Saturday and the midweek comp.

Between the 8 or so of us that regularly play weve decided just to play a bit of a swindle amongst ourselves. Chuck a fiver in and the winner buys the pints.

 

[IanM]

£5 at ours.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Ours have been £4 for a while. I've no problem with that as we pay out 1st-3rd in each division and the rest goes towards engraving etc. It comes off our membership card (one we use at the bar) so don't really see/feel it coming out, If you have to pull out at least 24 hours in advance you get refunded

 

[Blue in Munich]

£5 here too, which includes the 2’s sweep.

 

[Imurg]

I think we're £2 for the comp and £1 each for the 2s and Sweep.
Some, more significant, comps are more expensive but rarely more than a fiver.

 

[jim8flog]

£3 entry and £1 twos and the club take 20% of both.

Quite a few have stopped playing in them apparently since they introduced the 20% levy.

 

[upsidedown]

£4 plus £1 for 2's

 

[Boomy]

It’s £5 total at Silloth, £3 comp and £2 two’s I’m sure the split is.

If there is a decent prize pot, trophy engraving etc I’ve no problem with £5 - the buffet at the prize giving night was great too if the entry fees go towards that ?

Edit: I can’t help but wonder if it’s the same members grumbling about £3/4/5 comp fees who spend £1000’s every year on kit…. ?

 

[fenwayrich]

£3 plus a voluntary £1 for 2's and 20p hole in one. Prize fund is 100% of entry fees, the club funds engraving, Honours Boards etc.

 

[fundy]

Our Club has increased weekly fees this year by 33% from 3 to £4. Accept it is only £1 but the Club only pay out 80/85% in prizes the remainder being held back for engraving/ Guest Presentation Day speaker plus sundries. It was disappointing that there was no advice. The Club generates bar income from members which may be lost if they decide to go elsewhere.

What are your weekly fees and thoughts please?

members or proprietary club? how many play in an average comp? how much do you think the costs (ie trophies engraving etc) cost? - 15-20% seems pretty low to me having worked as a treasurer for clubs in the past

 

[Matty6]

£3 per comp and optional £2 for two’s pot.

 

[Shooter McPowick]

£3.70 entry
£3.00 for twos
£1 for the sweep

 

[Billysboots]

£5 which includes the 2’s sweep.

 

[Jason.H]

£3 here. I remember it being £3 in the early 2000,s albeit at a different club.

 

[2blue]

£4 here which includes 2's entry

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Comp is £3, 2’s entry is £2

 

[3offTheTee]

members or proprietary club? how many play in an average comp? how much do you think the costs (ie trophies engraving etc) cost? - 15-20% seems pretty low to me having worked as a treasurer for clubs in the past

Members Club. Usually 140 and although not that many early in the season because of daylight hours the first comp is next week with the last mid October.

 

[SammmeBee]

Our Club has increased weekly fees this year by 33% from 3 to £4. Accept it is only £1 but the Club only pay out 80/85% in prizes the remainder being held back for engraving/ Guest Presentation Day speaker plus sundries. It was disappointing that there was no advice. The Club generates bar income from members which may be lost if they decide to go elsewhere.

What are your weekly fees and thoughts please?

Don’t play in the competition if you don’t like it…….