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Does your clubhouse stay open?

  • 29-12-2009 8:00pm
    #1
    vedwards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭


    Due to the recent bad weather tour course has been closed either due to frost or rain. The clubhouse, like most, is franchised out to a local publican / restaurateur. We have a social levy that will net him around 50k this year of which he pays the club 30k for the franchise. The problem is that he correlates course closure with clubhouse closure. He also has the franchise in the local rugby club and I presume that this is the way he operates there. No match - no bar/food.
    Many of the members are irate (1) they can't spend their social levy before the 31st Dec when they 'use or lose' (2) the golf club is more than just the course but is a members club with social aspects.
    Has anyone encountered a similar situation in their club? Was the issue resolved and how?


Comments

  • #2
    'scorthy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭'scorthy


    I'm sure many courses are closed up and down the Country but most club houses remain open for members to socialise. It sounds as if you've got a problem with your franchiseé. If I'm paying my subs I want access to all the facilities my golf club purports to provide for my hard earned cash. I have noticed increasingly, probably due to competition between clubs for members, that on their web sites they state exactly what you get for your buck. If your club wants members in 2010 they should advertise precisely what the entrance fee and subs offer the newcomer - no grey areas; whether it be for full use of all club house facilities and state restrictions.


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