What's the maximum you would pay....

[Twire]

.....for a round of golf?

Reading some of the posts gives me a clue.. RCD at £160, and looking at Castle Stuart at £150

Personally I wouldn't pay over £100 and that would have to be a very special course.

I payed £95 to play the Brabazon at the GM event, and that works out at just over a fiver a hole...not sure I'd pay that again to play it. But it has ticked off one of my "must play" courses.

So how much are you prepared to pay?

 

[freddielong]

Depends what you call really special RCD is a very special course
I wouldn't pay more than £300 unless I really wanted to

 

[Mike_j_golf]

Hi
100 max never paid more and have played RCD for £80 during the winter here in Ireland most courses have opens so keep a eye out for them along with special/winter deals no need to pay the full list price on most courses there is always a way to get out cheaper.
Mike

 

[Ethan]

I have paid almost $300 a couple of times.

 

[Spoff]

Top at the minute was £35 to play Scarborough South Cliff.

I want to play St Andrews eventually and that is £130+ I think, but that will be a one off.

And I want to be a much better golfer before I consider it.

Because I am struggling to play to 28 at the minute I don't usually pay more than £20.

 

[John_Findlay]

Most I've ever played was £130 to play the Old Course at St Andrews but that was a special occasion and I wanted to play it during the expensive part of the season.

After that the most would have been £88 to play Royal Dornoch. Anything above the £100 would have to be pretty special and certainly way better than those two. I wouldn't pay £95 for the Brabazon personally. When I last played it it was £160 per fourball and we thought that was pricy (1990 though!)

 

[need_my_wedge]

Paid £150 to play Celtic Manor 2010. Thought it was worth it, but my gameplay and the bad weather could both have been better. One of my playing partners labelled it his number one course, slightly better than kingsbarn.

We have all agreed that we want to go back and play it again.

 

[USER1999]

I have paid £160 (RCD), but would not pay that much again (I thought that last year too). Much over £100, and I would have to think pretty hard about it, and I couldn't go to that much very often. I pay 50 to 70 in Florida every year on holiday, and about 80 to play The Grove on an evening ticket a couple of times a year.

 

[Fyldewhite]

Green fees to play top courses are extortionate in this country and personally I can't see myself ever paying more than £50- £60 in the UK. They are simply not worth it when there are so many great courses at 1/2 the price. That said, if I were in the US and had the chance to play Sawgrass, Pebble beach etc then I'd probably push the boat out as a one-off.

 

[birdieman]

£100 seems like an amount where I'd have to weight up things carefully. Paying more than that, despite how good the course might be, I'd probably be unhappy paying for it so wouldn't enjoy it as much.

Most I've paid is just under £90 for both Kingsbarns and Royal Dornoch. Have not reached the £100 mark yet and hopefully won't.

 

[IM01]

Paid £185 to play Valderama,a one off.It was good but worth the money?? No...
Played many courses for a fraction of the price and had as much enjoyment.

 

[KeefG]

The most expensive i've paid was £95 for The Brabazon & PGA National at The Belfry but that was very early in the season.

I wouldnt hesitate at spending upto £150 for a really good course and have regularly paid £60 - £70 mark at times.

I would, however, sell my wife & kids and become a rent boy for as long as it took to raise the funds to play Augusta!

 

[Dodger]

I am unsure what the highest I have paid would be.Don't think I have paid over £80 anywhere and unsure what the max would be.

Speaking to a bloke yesterday who was saying he had played Valderama 4 times for next to nothing (he's a member of the R&A and has a friend of a friend) and said he enjoyed it but thought it was a tad Mickey Mouse in parts and they were always treated like shite however he had been this year to Monte Rei in the Algarve and paid 200euros for it and said he would gladly pay that again there than go back to Valderama for next to nothing anytime,treated like lords and the course was way better.....Monte Rei is now on my must play list....wonder if they do such a thing as 4 for 1 tickets????!!!

 

[Smiffy]

I paid £110.00 to play 36 holes around Hankley Common in August which included a small contribution towards prizes.
Society day which included food, I think the standard green fee for 36 holes would be in the region of about £85.00.
Would I pay it again?
Most probably if I went for the day with a crowd of mates but as I don't like playing 36 nowadays, I might not

 

[DCB]

Well as someone who baulked at paying £60 to play RCD last time I was over there on holiday I'm probably not best placed to comment on what is or isn't a reasonable amount to pay to play a good course.

In recent years I've probably not even payed more than £75 for a days golf. I just think that some of the clubs and courses are now milking the cash cow in order to get as much out of us gullible golfers as they possibly can.

Whether we as golfers are willing to keep this situation feed with out hard earned cash remains to be seen. As Corporate golf slows down, how are the clubs going to meet their budget forecasts ? If they put up their prices will they keep the footfall we are giving them ?

If I wasn't going to play Castle Stuart next April I don't really think I would be playing it at all, not at £150.

Might just be 'cause I'm a tight Scotsman though

 

[stevek1969]

Depends on the course and how much i wanted to play it payed £69 to play Kingsbarns last year ,thats the most i've spent

 

[Region3]

Most I've paid is about £85 for the Nicklaus course at St. Mellion.

Well worth it imo, but not the sort of thing I'd be wanting to do too often.

Anything over £50 and it would have to be somewhere special, as there are lots of good courses for less.

 

[Fore]

Must admit anything over about £60 gets my left eye twitching.
That's about what my club charges visitors.

 

[Smiffy]

If I wasn't going to play Castle Stuart next April I don't really think I would be playing it at all, not at £150.

Nor would I. The fact that we are getting on for £50.00 is enabling me to play 3 other local courses for about the same full up 18 hole green fee as Castle Stuart.
£150.00 for 72 holes on four proper courses is worth the dosh but £150.00 for 18? Never.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I'd pay up to £100 but it would have to be something special for that. Bearing in mind places round my way like Bearwood are less than that it would have to be a RCD (never played much in Ireland - must rectify that)or one of the top Scottish courses (done St Andrews). I would never consider paying top whack at Sunningdale or West Course at Wentworth as I don't think they are that good. They are great courses but I'm sure you're paying at least £50 just for the name itself.