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Sanded Fairways - Should course be open for green fees?

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  • #32
    GreeBo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,507 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    realgolfgeek wrote: »
    I don't follow you ?
    I was saying they shouldn't be treated any less than a member.

    Member or green fee guest .. Both should be treated with same respect and courtesy

    you should get "more" for being a member imo. you have committed to the club.
    everyone should be treated with respect and courtesy, but availability etc of the course should be swayed towards members.

    it's the classic club sandwich argument.
    the chicken is involved but the pig is committed.


  • #33
    realgolfgeek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 904 ✭✭✭realgolfgeek


    GreeBo wrote: »
    everyone should be treated with respect and courtesy, but availability etc of the course should be swayed towards members.
    .

    Ah, I gotcha,
    Absolutely.


  • #34
    For Paws
    Closed Accounts Posts: 812 ✭✭✭For Paws


    GreeBo wrote: »
    you should get "more" for being a member imo. you have committed to the club.
    everyone should be treated with respect and courtesy, but availability etc of the course should be swayed towards members.

    it's the classic club sandwich argument.
    the chicken is involved but the pig is committed.

    Membership normally involves rights, access to facilities, and priority use of Club facilities and course not available to green fee payers.
    So members do get 'more'.

    Green Fee payers were once treated as a kind of 'one day' member.
    In more recent times they became restricted to one round of golf and reasonable access to Club facilities, ie; dressing rooms & restaurant / bar.

    In order to make Club membership more attractive to potential members, restriction of access to all facilities and pitching the cost of a round of golf at a higher rate became the norm. This is reasonable, for as GreeBo has yet again pointed out, why else would people choose membership over paying green fees to play where and when they choose.
    They choose value for money (a very 'business' like approach).
    Oh yes, and of course 'committment' to the idea of the 'Club' is a vital component in their decision making.


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