Macreddin Golf Club

Trampas

Playing here on Friday 22nd as all Fridays are €30pp if in a fourball.

Whats the course like?

More playing it to add another course to my list as only a few away from a 100 now

uberwolf

hilly apparently, but I've heard nothing but good things - play it while it exists

Batesy

"play it while it exists"

Whats that supposed to mean mate. I though the course just opened a couple of weeks back?!

copacetic

there was a thread on it recently. great reports of the course. bad reports on them getting enough members to build a clubhouse. No reports of it closing though.

uberwolf

Batesy wrote: »

"play it while it exists"

Whats that supposed to mean mate. I though the course just opened a couple of weeks back?!

I have a very pessimistic outlook for a lot of these rural courses, attaching some hotel or country club. No reflection on Macreddin individually, but I believe we will see courses go to the wall, particularly ones outside large urban areas.

AATravel places Macreddin 1hr 30 mins from Dublin - which I presume is the principal target for memberships (Stillorgan chosen as generic South Dublin).

copacetic

uberwolf wrote: »

I have a very pessimistic outlook for a lot of these rural courses, attaching some hotel or country club. No reflection on Macreddin individually, but I believe we will see courses go to the wall, particularly ones outside large urban areas.

AATravel places Macreddin 1hr 30 mins from Dublin - which I presume is the principal target for memberships (Stillorgan chosen as generic South Dublin).

not sure they are getting that timing right Uberwolf. I got down there door to door in 55mins or so on a busy enough sat lunchtime and back in 45. Although I'm 5-10 mins closer than stillorgan.

Personally I don't see it going to the wall. The hotel appears pretty popular and the attached golf course is built now. I can see them never building a decent clubhouse though.

They went from 30k to 8k which apparently is really 6k for membership. In current climate I don't think any club can expect to get any kind of 'joining' fee, unless it is a members owned club and you are getting an equal share.

I'd see them reduce green fees and offer yearly sub type memberships and they will be kept busy enough. Rathsallagh and Tulfarris seem to be kept going and they are similarish distances from Dublin.

uberwolf

copacetic wrote: »

I'd see them reduce green fees and offer yearly sub type memberships and they will be kept busy enough. Rathsallagh and Tulfarris seem to be kept going and they are similarish distances from Dublin.

fair enough re Rathsallagh and Tulfarris, both fine courses. I wonder though that with reducing charges and costs will people move closer to home? Impacting even on established clubs.

Certainly I've been corrected in person* on Macreddin, people saying the hotel is super. For all that, the 5* hotel market is in a jock, and some of those are going to fail once their tax incentive schemes mature.

If Macreddin has the financial flexibility to react and cope with reduced subs, and heavily reduced joining fee's then it'll be no worse off than anywhere else.

I was sitting in Castleknock club house on Saturday, on a pleasant day as it was, conscious that there was a 1 ball on the entire back 9, wondering what an overgrown golf course looked like :eek:
I'm not wishing it on anyone, but look what happened in Japan


*real life TM

copacetic

true enough, who knows really. Hotel is indeed lovely down there, been in a fair few of the rooms during a tour and some of the suites are stunning.