Druids Glen Membership

MiniGolf

Got this in my "inbox" today...... discuss!!

New Annual Membership at Druids Glen

Become a member of “Irelands Finest Parkland course”

For just €4,000 with

No joining fee

Interested parties can contact Derek Byrne at 01 2812510 / 01 2873600 or

dbyrne@druidsglen.ie

Derek Byrne
Marketing Executive
Druids Glen Golf Resort
Newtownmountkennedy
Co. Wicklow
Ireland
Tel: 00 353 12873600
Direct Line: 00 353 12812510
Email: dbyrne@druidsglen.ie

Mister Sifter

I heard a rumour that a well known shamed Irish banker tried his best to stop such an offer. Apparently he was disgusted at the thought of potentially having to share his club with ordinary joes.

jimjo

So you have to pay €4000 every year.. Carton House in something like €2,600 a year or so, think thats better value..

conman

Mister Sifter wrote: »

I heard a rumour that a well known shamed Irish banker tried his best to stop such an offer. Apparently he was disgusted at the thought of potentially having to share his club with ordinary joes.

anyother year and there would not be many people in that pool to choose from, but there are many shamed bankers this year... considering location tho, the most shamed banker is from greystones, but i think he is a member of greystones? not sure tho...

conman

jimjo wrote: »

So you have to pay €4000 every year.. Carton House in something like €2,600 a year or so, think thats better value..

and Tulfarris is 1000€, but i guess the point of this story is, if one of the big big players can slash their prices, then hopefully we should see others fall in line to some extent too.

Mister Sifter

Corporate membership must have been huge in Druids Glen. And i'd imagine golf memberships are exactly the kind of extravagance that alot of big companies are cutting out at the moment.

As Jimjo says though, €4k is still a huge sum to be paying out for a year's golf.

jimjo

conman wrote: »

and Tulfarris is 1000€, but i guess the point of this story is, if one of the big big players can slash their prices, then hopefully we should see others fall in line to some extent too.

Yeah very true, by god if i lived near a course like Tulfarris for €1,000 a year i'd be in like a shot. I'd say some years back the people in st.margarets would have never thought membership would go down to its present price of €1,500 a year so theres hope for some more big slashes

sector

looking at their site do ya still get the blazer or wha

MiniGolf

sector wrote: »

looking at their site do ya still get the blazer or wha

I'd want the whole wardrobe for €4000 !!

sector

its a good step down from 50k in & 2689.93 plus Vat at 13.5% for year 2008.

must go over & play a round.

Johnny_Fontane

jimjo wrote: »

Yeah very true, by god if i lived near a course like Tulfarris for €1,000 a year i'd be in like a shot. I'd say some years back the people in st.margarets would have never thought membership would go down to its present price of €1,500 a year so theres hope for some more big slashes

Tulfarris is a great course but my god does it suffer from the weather. I played there a couple of times this year (including early june during that fantastic weather). Mud balls everywhere....Its a bit of a no go in deep soft winter.

I know that there are lease memberships available in Knightsbrook (my own course) over the next year. Sub is just under a grand with full playing rights....

jimjo

Johnny_Fontane wrote: »

Tulfarris is a great course but my god does it suffer from the weather. I played there a couple of times this year (including early june during that fantastic weather). Mud balls everywhere....Its a bit of a no go in deep soft winter.

I know that there are lease memberships available in Knightsbrook (my own course) over the next year. Sub is just under a grand with full playing rights....

I may have jumped to conclusions in regards to Tulfarris, I haven’t played it, but heard so many great reports from people who have and €1,000 for golf membership on a good course seems very good value to me as memberships around me in Dublin start at the €1,500 mark.

That’s interesting about knightsbrook, just under a grand?? That’s cracking value… hard to believe, are they still available?

Johnny_Fontane

There's a new deal for members to purchase a second share and lease it out, its just started but if you pm me i can put you in contact with the right person

thegen

For 4k you could join a club and get very close to including your 1st years subs in it. I know I have a membership I can sell on at €3,250.00

SuprSi

Terrific course but 4k is a lot of cash. I'm glad that they got down off their perch with their 50k joining fee but I wonder if many people will be willing to part with that much cash? At least you become a full member.

I'd be interested to see if Powerscourt do something similar this year.

GreeBo

conman wrote: »

and Tulfarris is 1000€, but i guess the point of this story is, if one of the big big players can slash their prices, then hopefully we should see others fall in line to some extent too.

I doubt, it.
There is still a minimum needed to run a club well.
After a point you cant just increase your numbers due to course time pressure, so the price has to at best stay the same.

Unglika Norse

It's a sign that no club is uneffected by the downturn, if it was a choice I would go for a members club were you can actually have a say in what the fees will be and how the club should be run. Both Druids Glen & Knightsbrook and as far as I am aware Tulfarris are all propriarty clubs as was luttrellstown,

But if as the question asked its between Druids Glen and Knightsbrook even at the price difference Druids Glen would win hands Down,

jimjo

Unglika Norse wrote: »

It's a sign that no club is uneffected by the downturn, if it was a choice I would go for a members club were you can actually have a say in what the fees will be and how the club should be run. Both Druids Glen & Knightsbrook and as far as I am aware Tulfarris are all propriarty clubs as was luttrellstown,

But if as the question asked its between Druids Glen and Knightsbrook even at the price difference Druids Glen would win hands Down,

Each to their own and all that but the price difference of €3,000 is quite substantial. Purely based on financial reasons I'd be happy with Knightsbrook.

Unglika Norse

point accepted

Bazz28

Unglika Norse wrote: »

point accepted

Its has to be a mixture of quality and value and not just money and not what is the cheapest in the market place