Green Fees rule

BennyTheDip

Is the Green fees rule 'unless your a member of another GUI club, you can't play our course' enforced? I'm not talking about an open competition, just a casual game played via a non-member green fee.

Even if I was slightly immoral and said 'yes I'm a member of xyz, I can't produce a card

Thanks

Benny

Hobart

BennyTheDip wrote: »

Is the Green fees rule 'unless your a member of another GUI club, you can't play our course' enforced? I'm not talking about an open competition, just a casual game played via a non-member green fee.

Even if I was slightly immoral and said 'yes I'm a member of xyz, I can't produce a card

Thanks

Benny

Never heard of this in my life in Ireland.

BennyTheDip

Seriously? Maybe I've misinterpreted it and that it relates only to competitions. I know in some Green Fee books you have to place the name of the home club of the player

Enright

if you are a member of another club, you may be allowed to join as a "country member", for a reduced annual fee.

however, if you are not a member of a club, you will have to pay green fees, the rules will probably stipulate that you can only play with a member, i have never heard of green fees being waved just because one is a member of another club

Hobart

I don't think that the OP was talking about playing for free, just playing in general.

As a rule, some foreign clubs insisted that you have a handicap cert in order to use their facilities. In terms of green fees, any golfer (novice or pro) can go to a club and request to play for a green fee. you would only be presluded from doind that (in normal circumstances) if their was a comp on of if the course was in use for something else.

Open comps are open to GUI affiliated members (and GUI associates) and one must have a valid, current handicap inorder to play in them.

PhilipMarlowe

Generally you won't have a problem, assuming you can play to some standard and aren't dressed against the club rules, particularly if you go to commercial courses (who are in existance to make money).
The more exclusive the place you want to play, the level of difficulty may rise.

Davidth88

I have seen this in the UK, or rather often in the UK courses proport to have this rule , it's usually to try to casual play away . These would be private courses that are owned by the members typically.

I have never see this here in Ireland however.

Interstingly here , and in Scotland where golf is more of a sport than a social activity I find there are less ' silly ' rules restricting who can play. In England and esp in the South East ( around London ) there are all sorts of silly rules, for example I have been on a course near the M25 that banned white golf shoes.

BrianD3

I have heard of this before but I have never heard of it being enforced in Ireland in recent years.

Another one I've heard is that unless you're a member or have paid a green fee, you're not allowed in the clubhouse bar. I am not sure how true this is but have heard it several times. Obviously with weddings etc. being held in golf clubs these days this rule (if it does exist) is widely ignored

eunified61

I have seen this , before I got my handicap and gui card I played on a local course that has a members 18 hole and a green fee 9 hole.A friend of mine who is a member invited me to play the main course one day and told me that if anyone asked I was to say that I was a member of a course down the country or he would be in trouble. He was quite nervous about it.