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Its Rochdale the locals can afford it :
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Shut up and claim!
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True, the north is a tulip-hole, but I don't live too far from scooby actually ...
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Originally posted by wim121 View PostI'd laugh and tell them to **** off at that price. Ask them if it comes with nude female gold caddies? Or gold balls.
The cheaper clubs around my area charge £6-£15 per go or around £150pa on average.
The ones that host major tournaments or cater to elite golfers around here (the type of country club places) charge around £300pa with no joining fee or charge £25-£60 per round ...
I would never pay above £200pa, maybe £350pa down south for an ordinary course and would expect a championship one to be between £300-£500pa.
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Originally posted by scooby View PostWTF??? Just had an email from my local club. Now bearing in mind I'm only looking at giving the game a go, and maybe taking it up later in the year, the membership fees are stupid!
£900pa + £500 joining fee.
Now taking in account this is Rochdale I live in, home of immigrants and unemployed, is it any wonder their membership numbers are down??/
The cheaper clubs around my area charge £6-£15 per go or around £150pa on average.
The ones that host major tournaments or cater to elite golfers around here (the type of country club places) charge around £300pa with no joining fee or charge £25-£60 per round ...
I would never pay above £200pa, maybe £350pa down south for an ordinary course and would expect a championship one to be between £300-£500pa.
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Nothing says "I'm a dullard" more than joining a Golf Club
Please shoot me when the time comes when I drive past American Golf and say "Nice Pringle jumper" ...
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Originally posted by lukemg View PostIf that is Rochdale Gof Club then times are hard - it used to have a 7 year waiting list and loads joined another club up the road while they waited to be deemed fit to join.
It also used to have a men-only entrance at the front !!
You talking about the club at Heap Bridge area (North Manchester?)
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Surely there's a public course nearby. If you want to give the game a go, then there's no point going into a golf club, you need to learn how to play first. It's normal for Saturday to be reserved for competitions and you need a handicap. If you're a bad player you'll be constantly having to let everyone through which isn't much fun, you'll be spending most of your time looking for golf balls and watching good players walk past you "in humiliation" ....
Nah just go to the driving range and play on the public courses where people don't mind you taking your time. Cost you a fraction of the private fees. A private golf club is really for keen good amateurs who want to play regularly in competitions on a decent course.
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If that is Rochdale Gof Club then times are hard - it used to have a 7 year waiting list and loads joined another club up the road while they waited to be deemed fit to join.
It also used to have a men-only entrance at the front !!
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Originally posted by scooby View PostWTF??? Just had an email from my local club. Now bearing in mind I'm only looking at giving the game a go, and maybe taking it up later in the year, the membership fees are stupid!
£900pa + £500 joining fee.
Now taking in account this is Rochdale I live in, home of immigrants and unemployed, is it any wonder their membership numbers are down??/
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Originally posted by scooby View PostWTF??? Just had an email from my local club. Now bearing in mind I'm only looking at giving the game a go, and maybe taking it up later in the year, the membership fees are stupid!
£900pa + £500 joining fee.
Now taking in account this is Rochdale I live in, home of immigrants and unemployed, is it any wonder their membership numbers are down??/
There's a club a few miles away in Ashridge Forest that charges a fair bit more, and I was at Moor Park last year where I was told annual membership is well over £2000 (and that might not even be 7-day).
Maintaning a golf course is not cheap, but £900 spread over (say) a round a week is under 20 quid a go, very reasonable.
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Playing in the SE, my club was 1500 a year. Struggled to get a game a week, which is a lot of dosh. If you are starting to give the game a go, use a local par 3 9 hole, which would be about a tenner a pop, and see if you can control a ball with your clubs first.
Its not for everyone.
If you find you can, and like playing, then's the time to think about joining a club.
If you simply must, tell them the joining fee's a showstopper and most will get rid of it, mine did.
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