Golf Club Membership Costs

Mister Sifter

How much it costs to join certain clubs seems to be a recurring question so how about a thread where we put up the costs of our own clubs or at clubs where we know how much it is?

Elm Green - 450 euro for new members / 525 euro for existing members (no joining fee). For more info see... http://www.golfdublin.com/elmgreen/membership.asp

Hollystown - 3 packages available - ranging from 350 euro to 1350 euro per year (no joining fee). For more info click here.

Both these clubs are located in North Dublin.

clg23

Bellewstown GC €920 - Full membership
€550 - Student

Ta me anseo

I think this would be very useful for many people, especially me! However, for a fair comparison, could you include what benefits you receive. For example, at Elm Green it may be 450 euro per annum, but as I understand it you receive discounted green fees rather than free green fees. Bellewstown I think (clg23 can clarify!) gives you free access for 920 euro. So, there actually fairly comaprable rates if you intend to play a couple of dozen rounds a year.

Mister Sifter

yeh, that's a fair point. Rather than re-hashing what the Elm Green and Hollystown websites say about the various benefits i've included a link to the membership pages of both sites. These explain it better and more clearly than perhaps i could.

racso1975

Carlow oakpark is 300 euro for the year all in but it is a 9 hole but you can play them as often as you like

clg23

To clarify bellewstown co. meath not too far outside balbriggan/stamullen: €920 full membership no joining fee, free access 7 days no cost per round.
Just found out on another forum that it is not GUI affiliated though can anyone clarify what exactly this means (will handicaps not be valid on other courses?)

corkandproud

Be careful to compare like with like:

Full Membershuip including GUI Handicap (Most Clubs)
5 Day Members, no GUI Handicaps (some clubs)
Annual Green fee ticket (pay and play, municipals)

denachoman

Good idea OP

Royal Tara Golf Club, Tara, Co. Meath. 27 holes.

Annual Sub €960 (inclusive of €100 sub for bar/restaurant).

Entrance Fee €9500.

Ta me anseo

clg23,

I just found out yesterday that Bellewstown is planning to be affiliated to the GUI in the next week or two! Good news!

clg23

Ta mé anseo,

Thats good to know bout Bellewstown joining GUI. Have u made any decisions about what club to join?

Have you thought about joining Corballis in Donabate? I believe it costs around €400 for the year and that gets you your handicap etc, very nice course (bar 3 or 4 poor holes on the back Nine) only draw back is that you still have to pay a reduced sub each time you play? would work out a lot cheaper that joining Balbriggan or Hollywood Lakes..

Ta me anseo

clg23,

I'm finding myself kind of leaning towards Hollywood Lakes 5 day membership. As I work shift, I normally would only have one weekend in 6 or so, so I can't really justify paying double the rates so I could be able to use a course an extra 7 or 8 times a year.

I have looked at Corballis and agree it is a beautiful course. I always treated the few holes on the back nine that are substandard as giving you a little breather before you head for home! But, if I was to play 12 rounds a year there, it would cost me about 550 euro or so for the year, which is almost identical to Hollywood Lakes. They want 2,500 joining and 585 a year (now includes a 100 euro levy for their planned new clubhouse) so it seems that might not be too bad a deal. In ways I wish there was only one club any where near here. That way the decision would be an awful lot easier!

ARGGHH!! HEELLLPPP!

clg23

Well hollywood lakes is a great course so it would not be a bad choice at all, It would be the best of the courses in the area,

we are lucky in a way that there are so many courses in the area I reckon with so many competing clubs prices will begin to fall, we have: balbriggan, bellewstown, skerries, rush, hollywood lakes, 3 in donabate, laytown and bettystown, drogheda, and a few more around swords malahide airport area

TheDoc

Full 7 day membership incl gui handicap €5500 joining fee and subs of €900 and something, this includes a 200 euro levee for new clubhouse and facilities.

5 day membership incl gui handicap €2000 and subs of like 400 i think or something like that.

By all means this is a brilliant rate your getting here. With full benefits. And like i keep saying with the imrpovements we are making over the next year hollywood lakes will finally be where it should be as a big name top 15 course.

The actual course is rarely rivalled outside of the big names.

For 5500 full day joining, bargain, considering roganstown down the road was 16000

Tar.Aldarion

Ah golf, the ridiculously high priced sport.
It's why I'll stop playing after I am not a junior, although it is fun going round in scratch and beating your old secondary teachers.
So much money for a year!

rick_fantastic

i play in woodenbridge, avoca.

associate member until 26 - €86 per year

full subs after 26 - in or around €1000

joining fee if you can get on the list is in the region of €15,000

lucky for me ive been on the family membership since i was a kid so i dont have to pay any joining fees just full subs when i turn 26. sweet

kevodaly

Tramore GC, Co. Waterford.

Entrance fee around €4k, annual sub €1k, inc €127 bar levy

New development underway to add 9 new holes and upgrade existing 18 greens to sand based USGA standard...should be done in 2-3 years.

Anyone ever play here - What did you think ?

domall

Mulranny Golf Course, Co. Mayo.

€240 for the year (no joining fee)

9-hole links course with alternate tee boxes for the back 9. Lovely little links course with fantastic views of Clew Bay

Zzippy

Donegal GC, Murvagh
Full membership €400 plus GUI affiliation (about €15 I think)
No levy of any kind
For one of the best courses in the country it is ridiculously cheap. (Rated 11th in last Golf World survey of Irish courses that I saw, 54th or so in Britain and Ireland)

Tar.Aldarion

Great deal there, pity it is far away.

smashey

Galwayguy99 wrote:

Donegal GC, Murvagh
Full membership €400 plus GUI affiliation (about €15 I think)
No levy of any kind
For one of the best courses in the country it is ridiculously cheap. (Rated 11th in last Golf World survey of Irish courses that I saw, 54th or so in Britain and Ireland)

That's a great price for a great course. I'm looking at joining Ballybofey & Stranorlar this summer and the fees are slightly less than that.

Tar, Sligo to Murvagh isn't very far.

Tar.Aldarion

That is a ssuming I live in Sligo, I do not.

bbability

Laytown Bettystown is around €5000 for 5 day membership. I think its between €10000-€12000 for full membership. Why waste that money....:o

I've been playing in Bellewstown since it opened nearly 3 years ago. Its really starting to take shape. For anyone like me just getting started in the game its a great place to play. Free golf so to speak with a GUI for less than a grand. Not bad value for a Golf club so close to the Capital. Its got alot of pontential.
A work mate of mine is a member of Beechpark just outside Rathcoole. He joined it when there wasn't even a club house 20 odd years ago. You should see it now. He advised me to join a new Golf Club like Bellewstown. It has that kind of potential...

golfnuts

I too became a member this year in Bellewstown. I Played it a couple of times and really enjoyed the course, so I joined. Its 15 mins away from me so it was a no brainer as far as i was concerned. As you say free golf for the year as such and practically on my doorstep also close proximity to the M1.

Lots of space up there for a putting green and driving range. New club house is great (beats the container). Challenging course but fair. Playing it tomorrow to get my 2nd card for my GUI.

clg23

Bellewstown are offering free lessons and a free game evaluation at the moment too

bbability

I played at Darren Clarke's "Champions Club" at Moy Valley last weekend. Only open to the public the last few weeks. Cost €75,000 to join when it opened last April. Now only €10,000 to join! Its a beautiful course. Lynx Course very well designed. And the Clubhouse is out of this world. They're doing a special at the moment Breakfast and Golf weekday's for 40-50euro. I think it a sister (or brother) golf club to New Forest in Tyrellspass.

Stealdo

clg23 wrote: »

Bellewstown are offering free lessons and a free game evaluation at the moment too

Any details on this CLG? I can't see anything on their website.

Question for members - has this place improved dramatically over the last 6 - 12 months? There were folks on here before then complaining about maintanance etc

madds

bbability wrote: »

I played at Darren Clarke's "Champions Club" at Moy Valley last weekend. Only open to the public the last few weeks. Cost €75,000 to join when it opened last April. Now only €10,000 to join! Its a beautiful course. Lynx Course very well designed. And the Clubhouse is out of this world. They're doing a special at the moment Breakfast and Golf weekday's for 40-50euro. I think it a sister (or brother) golf club to New Forest in Tyrellspass.

Played it just after Christmas from the middle stakes on a very cold day. Didn't find it that challenging to be honest, when you look at what they are charging. Little or no trouble off the tee. Cost us €70 a man to play. Nearly aced the par-3 4th or 5th (can't remember which) with a 6-iron which stopped right on the lip. Warmed me up for a few minutes that did.....;)

scholarswalk

Rush golf club, north Co. Dublin. 9 hole links. Annual subs for men members are now 1070 euro* per annum. 7500 joining fee. Golf rounds are then free to members all year. 5 euro to enter competitions at the weekend.

* subs include annual fee, GUI fee, insurance and extra levy to pay for the fine new clubhouse that was built a few years ago. No bar levy included.

PhilipMarlowe

Gowran Park, Kilkenny, 18 hole parkland
Sub €810
Levy +30
GUI Levy +17
Free rounds throughout the year
Competitions at weekend are €5
9 hole competitions on Wednesday evenings in summer - €4 + €1 to enter birdie hole competition (entry fee is divided for birdies on the drawn hole, carried over if not won).
Friday evening 9 hole semi-open competitions in summer (members and a non-member guest).
No bar levy but can get discount with card if pre-paid (€50) - 15% off i think

If anyone is in the area and wants a game, give me a shout and I will hopefully oblige

clg23

Stealdo wrote: »

Any details on this CLG? I can't see anything on their website.

Question for members - has this place improved dramatically over the last 6 - 12 months? There were folks on here before then complaining about maintanance etc

I got a text about the two offers and told to contact "Brian". The course wasnt in great shape at the end of the summer but is in much better condition now. They have two putting greens that dont look too far off being finished also.