I bet I can make you guys jealous!

[Slicer]

Catawba Country Club (see www.catawbacc.org ), which will be within 15 minutes of where I'll be working in Hickory, NC here is a private club I played yesterday for free. My father has a residual deal through his club here in Asheville, and just for fun I inquired of membership of the membership director. Get this girls - NO INITIATION - $337 a month!!! And that includes the wife and kids!!! A Donald Ross design that dates back to 1946. His next to last course design that was finished 2 years before his death.

The course is in unbelievable shape, and has the same turtle back greens that you'd find at Pinehurst. Plays about 6,600 from the tips, but the entire front nine is up hill, so it actually plays 1 or two clubs longer on every hole. It's a heck of a track if you ask me, and the greens were running about 11 on the stimp, and it was wet and cold!!!!!

They've got a weight room, a Olympic sized pool, and all sorts of social activities going on all the time.

You guys will love this one. Here's their New Years Eve deal...$112 per couple, which includes live band, hors deourves, party favors, champagne at midnight and (drum roll please) OPEN BAR!!! I mean, for $56 I could not believe that price. OPEN BAR!!! Unbelievable!!!

It might be a little tight, but $337 a month is a steal if you ask me. I play 10 rounds a month and I've paid for the membership!!!!

Gotta love country living!

[iacas]

Catawba Country Club (see

My Membership's a bit lower, and I too think it's a steal. The wife doesn't quite agree (we do have these winter months where we still pay but don't play), but she lets me have it, so clearly she doesn't disagree as much as she'd like to pretend she does.

[Leftie_power]

I play a nine hole muni for free, it's gotta range and a practice green, I don't need anything else

[Frank-0-Sport]

Greetings Slicer ...

About the $337 a month figure you quoted - I am assuming that's for anyone within a certain radius of the club. Correct?

Thank you for sharing. Sounds like a really good deal. And I truly appreciate the re-edit on the Catawba Club web-link in your initial post.

Thanx-A-Lot, Frank-0-Sport