Golf club membership

forfcksake

Last year I didn't join my local golf club in the midlands due to health reasons & having recently finished college for the summer I decided I wanted to join up again to get out for the summer, I rang up this morning to ask what my options were, the full years rate for a student was €256 which they expected me to pay for only 5 months of golf (I.e. June-october) surely this is unreasonable, I wouldn't mind if it was jan or feb & I was gonna get 8 or 9 months out of it, but to pay full years subscription for only 5 months is ridiculous I think! Just wondering is this the same in most golf clubs & is it just me being unreasonable? (not looking for people to have a go at me just wondering if they think this is bad business on their part or not?) I'll prob join another golf club around 25mins away as their subscription is reasonable for the year, but if they had given me the next 5 months for 1/2 the yearly subscription I would have probably signed up for next year too!

newport2

I'd agree with you, 6-month fee would be reasonable. Did you suggest this to them?

It would be worth going down and talking to someone in person, good chance the person answering the phone does not have the authority to make deals. Would be surprised if whoever is managing the club turned you away without offering some sort of compromise. Make the point that you're expecting to become a long term member.

Mister Sifter

€256 for 5 months golf seems pretty good to me. You are, after all, going to be getting the best 5 months of the year.

Trampas

If you only payed pro rata then a small percentage would ever pay a full sub.

Just cause you only want it for 5 months isn't the clubs fault.

You pay for 12 months and what you do with it is your own choice.

Sandwlch

The club stance would be typical of most clubs and would seem both reasonable and good business to me. The reason is that you are being offered student membership, already probably a significant reduction on the full sub. Most clubs would give a pro rata on a full sub, but would choose not to do so with students or juveniles. Many students/juveniles only join for the summer when schools/colleges close and giving pro rata reductions would open themselves to giving membership at ridiculously low fees to people who will probably play a lot of golf during the peak of the season.

dixiefly

On one hand I can see the OP's point and the club should be mindful that younger members are a precious commodity nowadays.

However, it is quite likely that the OP will play more games durin those months than most of us members will play over the year. I think I have only played about 10 times in my club so far this year (at most) but fully accept that is up to me. I would say that over the 5 months that the OP is planning to be a member he(or she) could end up playing about 50 times.

My advice would be to balance the decision depending on location, standard of course and affordability including trasnport getting to the club. no point in going to another club to save a marginal amount of money and to make a point.