harrisj
Hacker
You can't really argue with £50, though I can understand people wanting the choice.
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road2ruin
Q-School Graduate
Ours is £125.00 and we get 15% discount on food/drink at the bar. From a personal point of view I really don't mind using it however I'm also one of the members that has to top it up every 2 months so it's money I would spend anyway plus I get the discount.
Wilson
Head Pro
It's £150 at SandMartins, I have no issue with it. It can be used for guest green fee's & buggies, as well as in the bar & halfway hut - it's much easier than having to remember to have cash with me!
BoadieBroadus
Q-School Graduate
ours was £50 but was for drinks at the bar only. the food is a separate provider so you still had to pay cash.
the older members who only drank tea and ate chips complained and it was done away with. our club is seemingly run solely for the convenience of the older members. soon we will be doing away with weekend comps as they can't play as quickly on medal saturday as they do on every other day of the week.
the older members who only drank tea and ate chips complained and it was done away with. our club is seemingly run solely for the convenience of the older members. soon we will be doing away with weekend comps as they can't play as quickly on medal saturday as they do on every other day of the week.
Berger
Assistant Pro
Our social levy is £100 and we get 10% off bar and restaurant prices. It has to be paid at the start of June which isn't too bad because our membership fees are paid in october, so its not all coming out in one go.
As a relatively new club member i think its a good thing. Having the levy encourages people to go in to the clubhouse before or after their round. Its a chance to get to know a few more members not just by going round the course but also having a chat over a beer / soft drink.
As a relatively new club member i think its a good thing. Having the levy encourages people to go in to the clubhouse before or after their round. Its a chance to get to know a few more members not just by going round the course but also having a chat over a beer / soft drink.
Andy
Tour Winner
Me too but surely over 52 weeks if getting into rounds you can blow 50 sheets?
Keeno
Challenge Tour Pro
Ours in £50 and mine has been topped up a few times this year. I think the term "car park member" isn't the best term to use.
More often than not I play early in medals and have to head home straight away due to family commitments, this is true for most of the early morning players.
Fitting golf into a busy life is more impotant than having a drink listening to folk moaning about how long the rough is
More often than not I play early in medals and have to head home straight away due to family commitments, this is true for most of the early morning players.
Fitting golf into a busy life is more impotant than having a drink listening to folk moaning about how long the rough is
BrizoH71
Tour Rookie
Ours is £30 levy, plus we get 10% off.
I think its great, it gives me more of an incentive to spend time afterwards in the clubhouse and have a jar or two. We can pay competition fees off the levy too.
Which reminds me, I need to top up my bar card.
I think its great, it gives me more of an incentive to spend time afterwards in the clubhouse and have a jar or two. We can pay competition fees off the levy too.
Which reminds me, I need to top up my bar card.
bluewolf
Money List Winner
We don't have one, which I'm grateful for. I doubt that I would spend £50 in a year TBH. Call me a carpark member if you want, but I have to drag myself out of bed early, after a nightshift, just to be able to play before I have to pick up the kids from school at 3. I play during the afternoon at weekends (due to the afore mentioned nightshift) and tend to go home straight after the round, either to go to work, or to spend some time with the family.
Maybe if the family could come to the club, we could spend some money in the bar, but the dresscode is quite strict and I doubt that the kids would be welcome.... their loss I suppose....
Maybe if the family could come to the club, we could spend some money in the bar, but the dresscode is quite strict and I doubt that the kids would be welcome.... their loss I suppose....
We have a £50 bar levy to be used for food and drink only and I top that up on a regular basis. I have no objections to the levy, but we do have members moaning about it. The same members come into the clubhouse in December and buy bottles of wine to use it up.
The club did some number crunching last year and came up with some figures. To keep the clubhouse at break even each member would need to spend around £175 per calendar year, which is not a great deal in the grand scheme of things. A golf club without a clubhouse is not an attractive option, that's why I personally try to support the club.
The club did some number crunching last year and came up with some figures. To keep the clubhouse at break even each member would need to spend around £175 per calendar year, which is not a great deal in the grand scheme of things. A golf club without a clubhouse is not an attractive option, that's why I personally try to support the club.
cookelad
Tour Winner
That's what, a little over a round of drinks for a 4 ball per person per month then! Unless they're drinking Peroni in which case it's a little under a round for a 3 ball per person per month!
Stuey01
Journeyman Pro
I'm not a particularly heavy clubhouse user, as I tend to get off home after rounds to see the Missus. I've still spanked well over £200 this year so far through my bar card on drinks and the odd sandwich. I'd spend a lot more if they started the bacon sarnies before 9am on a Saturday.
I don't have a problem with a levy as I'd spend it anyway. Ours can only be used in the clubhouse on drinks and food. There is a small discount, can't remember how much.
I think our levy is £50.
I don't have a problem with a levy as I'd spend it anyway. Ours can only be used in the clubhouse on drinks and food. There is a small discount, can't remember how much.
I think our levy is £50.
big_eck
Assistant Pro
my club has a £50 levy and thats for either £50 in the bar or 6 free guest passes, i took the passes as i drive there and i want to try get my friends to join up as well
This thread interests me as a non club golfer at present.
I have only started played last summer and after playing through the winter and still enjoying it I've been looking to join a club in my local area. Most clubs don't advertise the prepaid bar system in either their website or when you phone and ask.
It's only when you ask if the total figure for the first year is £xxxx that they reluctantly (or so it appears) add in, "err no we have a £50 bar card which allows you ...."
I don't have a problem with the principle and hope to join a club for next year. As has been said I think £50 or even £100 is an amount I'd easily use and be happy to pay.
I have only started played last summer and after playing through the winter and still enjoying it I've been looking to join a club in my local area. Most clubs don't advertise the prepaid bar system in either their website or when you phone and ask.
It's only when you ask if the total figure for the first year is £xxxx that they reluctantly (or so it appears) add in, "err no we have a £50 bar card which allows you ...."
I don't have a problem with the principle and hope to join a club for next year. As has been said I think £50 or even £100 is an amount I'd easily use and be happy to pay.
Cityfanbrian
Club Champion
Our £50 levy was abandoned after complaints from members. It made no difference to me as I spent it at the first social function. I also use the clubhouse after every game so I regularly top my card up. I find it strange that people don't have a drink with their playing partners or support a social event, it's usually those that do all the complaining too !
big_eck
Assistant Pro
Even if I just play 9 holes myself I always grab a drink either a coke or a kopperberg just to stay social
We had a levy but a lot of the senior members (the half a pint after a game merchants who then say "we're the ones keeping the club going - yeah right") didn't like it and so the club stopped it. Also the club found it was putting new members off at a time when we needed to get numbers in the door.
My biggest gripe has always been the car par cowboys who NEVER set foot in the clubhouse or enter club comps, even stablefords and expect the course to be perfect for them everytime and are usually the most vociferous complainants to each other as they slip their shoes on and head to the exit. £50 as it was is less than a pound a week and surely you can manage that.
My biggest gripe has always been the car par cowboys who NEVER set foot in the clubhouse or enter club comps, even stablefords and expect the course to be perfect for them everytime and are usually the most vociferous complainants to each other as they slip their shoes on and head to the exit. £50 as it was is less than a pound a week and surely you can manage that.
Wilson
Head Pro
That's where our place is excellent, my wife gets free social membership, and her card is linked to mine, so she can either pop down on her own, or meet me after a round.Maybe if the family could come to the club, we could spend some money in the bar, but the dresscode is quite strict and I doubt that the kids would be welcome.... their loss I suppose....
Bratty
Princess Pouty (Queen of Fish Lips)
I agree that for some people (like Bluewolf) it would be penalising them when they don't have the option of staying around. For others, it makes perfect sense, as they're going to spend it anyway.
I'm in the second camp, and will always get my 4ball a drink, even though I'm tee-total, and would be able to save a fortune! I also get food more often than not, after a round, as it'll be the tricky "too early for dinner and the wife's probably had lunch" syndrome.
Reckon I shell out £300 a year minimum. Difference is, I get to spread it out over the year. I would be aggrieved if I had to pay that up front.
I'm in the second camp, and will always get my 4ball a drink, even though I'm tee-total, and would be able to save a fortune! I also get food more often than not, after a round, as it'll be the tricky "too early for dinner and the wife's probably had lunch" syndrome.
Reckon I shell out £300 a year minimum. Difference is, I get to spread it out over the year. I would be aggrieved if I had to pay that up front.
Not everyone wants to go into the clubhouse to have a drink after, golfs a sport and I play the game of golf. I don't go to the gym and sit around in the reception area with a protein shake after my workout making small talk with with other members to help the gym out. I enter some comps but rarely have a drink... Does that make me a car park cowboy? If it does then so be it as I have a life to attend after a game of golf.
If I wanted to help a bar out while I played sport then I'd have taken up snooker!!!
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