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  • 10-09-2018 8:06pm
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    jakefouro
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭


    Hi - took a break from gold for a few years and now thinking of rejoining a club for occasional golf. Would like a GUI membership so I can play open competitions. Some clubs are offering distance membership for approx 150 euro and what I need to know if if I took out distance membership would I get a GUI card so I can play in open competitions. Also do you have to be as member of another club to avail of distance membership? Thanks in advance.


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    swededmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 477 ✭✭swededmonkey


    I've country membership which I'm assuming is the same as distance. As I'm getting in on a discounted rate (approx 40% of full membership fee), I have to hold my full GUI in another club.


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    Drifter50
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Drifter50


    I would reckon hundreds of the more casual golfers have distance membership and use it to their and the clubs benefit. I live in Dublin and have a distance membership and have a GUI card. I`m not a member anywhere else. I realise I can`t enter the Captains Prize and the Presidents Prize but so be it. This year I will probably end up playing 20 odd rounds of golf between my own club, invitations and society`s so happy days, lets all enjoy


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    downthemiddle
    Registered Users Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭downthemiddle


    jakefouro wrote: »
    Hi - took a break from gold for a few years and now thinking of rejoining a club for occasional golf. Would like a GUI membership so I can play open competitions. Some clubs are offering distance membership for approx 150 euro and what I need to know if if I took out distance membership would I get a GUI card so I can play in open competitions. Also do you have to be as member of another club to avail of distance membership? Thanks in advance.

    Send me a pm and I'll give you details of our 150 euro pay and play option.


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    Seve OB
    Registered Users Posts: 15,874 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    no you don't have to be a member in another club
    you will have to complete 3 qualifying cards each year to maintain your handicap.

    technically you must maintain your handicap in the club where you play most of your golf, so really if you are living in Dublin and a local club has an open you plan to play in every Tuesday but you only play 3 times a year in your home club..... well this is not really allowed


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    clog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭clog


    Seve OB wrote: »
    no you don't have to be a member in another club
    you will have to complete 3 qualifying cards each year to maintain your handicap.

    technically you must maintain your handicap in the club where you play most of your golf, so really if you are living in Dublin and a local club has an open you plan to play in every Tuesday but you only play 3 times a year in your home club..... well this is not really allowed


    The provision that you must maintain your handicap in the club you play most of your golf refers only to those who are members of more than one club at the same time. Not the usual single club member.

    There is no sanction on the number or location of where anyone plays as long as the required qualifying rounds have been played at their home club


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