The most $ youve payed to play 18 holes

[murphmjm]

Should a member who spends 45k a yr but plays 100 times put his home course as the most expensive round? Would be interesting to see just how much people get out of their memberships on price per round basis.

[kevin.chan]

The membership fee is for 50 years.

[MSDOGS1976]

  kevin.chan said:

The membership fee is for 50 years.

What are the monthly dues? And one more question.....who designed the course? Nosy, I know.

[Lefty-Golfer]

  murphmjm said:

Should a member who spends 45k a yr but plays 100 times put his home course as the most expensive round? Would be interesting to see just how much people get out of their memberships on price per round basis.

Club fees are interesting to work out into a round cost because there are so many other activities. Standard fees below for middle level CC in the Philadelphia area

Initiation and bonding -call it 15k one time fee for typical private club in my area. That is usually 10k spent for the initiation and 5k held for the bond (interest free of course) for the life of your membership…many people join and never leave. Dues- typically 5k or so Food minimum- typically 250.00 to 300 per quarter or $1,000.00 to $1,200.00 per year. Range time is “free” Cart fees are 12.00 per round. If you disregard the initiation and bond fees as overhead and the yearly cost for 100 rounds would be 5k dues + 1k food + 1.2k carts divided by 100 or $72.00 bucks per round…and that is hell of a lot of golf. Last season I played roughly 65 rounds at my club so it was approx. 104.00 per round. That doesn’t include drinks…the drinks in the grill room kill you!! Bottom line is I pay roughly 1k per month for my membership and expenses there if you divide that by 65 it is 184.00 per round… lots of ways to do the math but you need to just forget the upfront costs…they are gone. Plus it is socal, food, some entertainment, pool and so on...

[ET-Taylor]

£25 for my most expensive round

[nevets88]

Can't remember the exact amounts:

Spyglass, Bandon Dunes: $200-$225?

The best golf experience I ever had I paid around $100, due to the awful US/Pound exchange rate - Hillside, right next to Royal Birkdale.

[Brugz7]

Arcadia Bluffs fall rate -- $75

[DavidFehertysBike]

I forget how much it cost, but the most ive ever paid to play one round was at one of the orange county national courses in orlando.

[FHopper]

$52 at my local muni on a weekend.

[Gioguy21]

$500 not including airfare for pebble...once.

[whetstone]

$250, including caddy, but a salesman who was trying to get me to use his crappy product paid for it.

[MrKadash]

$135. Was well worth it.

[James_Black]

  murphmjm said:

Should a member who spends 45k a yr but plays 100 times put his home course as the most expensive round? Would be interesting to see just how much people get out of their memberships on price per round basis.

well I'm counted as a junior so only 200 euro for me.

course is 40 euro a play. I play over 60 times a year so good value. adult membership is 2000 a year. I'd still be getting value

[senorchipotle]

  ajohnson161 said:

I payed $500 to play the Wynn Golf Course in Vegas... I hit a slot for 18K the night before so I felt ok doing it ;) . Short course but uber luxury, impeccable shape and great caddie.

you won 18 grand on a slot machine!?! i would have flipped out man. i saw an old lady over in shreveport hit 2500, and she damn near fainted. yeah, i guess $500 wouldn't have been that much of a splurge after such a big purse. but i'd probably have rented a car and driven to pebble or spyglass instead of paying 5 bills to play the wynn course. i'm sure it's nice, but i couldn't have justified paying that much to play at a course less historic than augusta, pebble, riviera, etc.

[ET-Taylor]

im a junior and my membership is £75 i play in the July/August at least 4 times a week it is £10 normally so i get good value

[Bump-n-MI]

I paid $175 once in Florida, great course but there are so many beautiful / reasonably priced tracks in Michigan that it failed in comparison.

I pay roughly $1000 a year for my membership and I played well over 60 rounds last year….comes out to about $16.00 a round . I can't remember when a round took longer then 4 hrs (typically it's like 3.5 hrs). Only needed to make 2 tee-times all year (and that was during Memorial Day and Fathers Day weekends). There are 3 major tournaments and about 10 minor tournaments throughout the year plus money games 3 days a week. We have less then 300 active memberships and my best guess is that only 50% play golf. Without a doubt the best deal in golf (IMHO) !

[pxc]

  Rexx said:

I'm a cheap golfer, so most of the time I'm looking for coupons and other deals. As for the question, I would say $69 at this

If a 5 HCP player like you barely shot under 100 I'm sure my score would be in the 300s. That said to me that would be worth it, the photos are gorgeous. I have trouble even imagining playing a course like that. The more shots you take the longer you can spend on that beautiful course!

[ks8829]

I played Pebble Beach 16 years ago and paid $450 and stayed just off the 18th hole at the Lodge. That stay and golf cost about $900, but then again, I proposed to my wife on the 7th tee box and that was priceless!