Highest Price You've Paid For Green Fees

[1badbadger]

What's the most you've ever paid for green fees?  What is the most you'd ever consider paying for green fees?  (For 1 round)

[BobC]

$250 for the Mid Ocean Club on Bermuda, totally worth it. I was a guest in a group at Trump National Palace Verde (Los Angles) @$275.00 and would never go back for any price.  Consider? Probably not much more than $250. It would depend.

 

[dennyjones]

I'm not expensive.   The most I've spent per round is around $75 many years ago at the Bear in Traverse City.   We are headed  to Hilton Head next winter so I'm sure I'll spend more.  I believe $150 would be my limit

[Patch]

Just green fees?  $600.00 is my high limit for just green fees. That said, 98% of my rounds are in the $40, or lower bracket. I can walk 18 holes tomorrow at my home course for $8.00 after 12 noon. 

Now some of those higher green fees also required extra fees for a caddy. Other fees might include unlimited beverage visits by the cart lady. I played some course in SoCal that charge an environmental impact fee which I thought was kind of rude. 

[Golfingdad]

I’d pay to play pebble and Pinehurst and they’re in the $500 range.

To this point, $275 ish for Kapalua Plantation is, I think, my highest.

[billchao]

I don't think I've paid more than $100 on a single round. I want to play Bethpage Black at some point, so I'm willing to pay at least $150.

[Buckeyebowman]

Well, it was $190 to play Spyglass Hill when I did, but I wasn't paying, the company was. Bought some promotional gift cards online a couple years ago for me and my buddies. Figured I paid about 60 bucks to play a $100 dollar "private" club. Very nice course and in great condition. The thing is, I live in NE Ohio and we are overbuilt for golf. Thus, there are a lot of bargains out there. We have played Fowler's Mill, a Pete Dye design with country club conditioning for $25 per ,booking on GolfNow. There are 3 nines there. The main 18 is on one side of the road, with the "Maple" nine on the other side. I asked the guy what it would cost if we wanted to play the Maple after our eighteen and he said "Ten bucks!" And that's w/cart! How do you beat that?

[David in FL]

I think Sawgrass was $300 the last time I played it.  

I'd pay almost anything to play Augusta.  Pick a number.  $5,000?  Probably....

[GolfLug]

$185 at Blackwolf run at Kohler.

[JonMA1]

I don't believe I've ever paid more than $45 - $50. If memory serves, the course was nothing to write home about.

I'm not sure how much I would pay... maybe $150. And that would be if I could play with my son.

I just don't have the income to justify paying for a bucket list type of outing. Plus, having never been a serious fan of professional golf, playing a course such as Augusta, or Kiawah or Pebble Beach doesn't really have the draw it might have for a long-time fan. I also think you'd need a pretty good game to really appreciate those types of courses. I could be wrong.

[HJJ003]

Most I have paid is somewhere around $150 probably a little less. I would be willing to pay much more depending on the course? $500 for pebble yes! $500 for the Pete dye course at French lick? Nope. (I was looking at this course the other day just looking at different courses and designs). Augusta? Probably a $1000, any higher would do long term damage to my finances :)

[DeadMan]

Paid about $400 for Pinehurst #2 greens fees. And I would definitely pay it again.

[rehmwa]

About $100 for the resort course in Thailand last Sept.  Plus rentals, plus caddie, plus tip.

$90 for University Ridges outside Madison, about the same for Eagle Ranch (Palmer course in Eagle, CO), about the same a few years ago at The Classic near Brainerd, MN, about the same at Troy Burne (Lehman design) near the Twin Cities

all courses super nice -

I had a couple chats with members here, and the course I watched the LPGA on Sunday has weekend rates of S$450 ->  US $352....ouch.  I won't be playing here anytime soon.  That's the problem with an island, real estate is a limited resource.

Edited March 7, 2018 by rehmwa

[Riverdad]

$305 to play at Pebble Beach in 1999. That was a lot for me back then, but worth every penny.

 

[onthehunt526]

5 hours ago, 1badbadger said:

What's the most you've ever paid for green fees?  What is the most you'd ever consider paying for green fees?  (For 1 round)

$495... Only on Pebble Beach. In reality $100 is about my limit. But I will play Pebble Beach in my lifetime, mark my words, don't care if it's $3000 by then, I will play Pebble.

[RussUK]

Damn, i'm gonna sound like a real cheapskate (or a proper Yorkshireman ) but the most i have paid was £23 at Halifax Bradley Hall and that was half price as i was with a member.

One day i'd like to do a tour of the Scottish Open venues or play Wentworth.

[NCGolfer]

$299 for Pinehurst #2...but that included a stay at the hotel as well.  This was about 8 years ago when they were running a special in the winter.  Lucked out with decent weather in late February.

Straight greens fees...hard to say since both Pinehurst and Kiawah included hotels.  Outside of those I did drop around $100 (plus caddie fees) to play #2 another time when they had a deal for CGA Interclub members.  I really can't remember paying any more than $100 to play other places.  I'd be glad to do so if the opportunity arose like at Sawgrass, Pebble Beach or Torrey Pines.

[klineka]

The most expensive course I've played was Punta Espada golf course in the Dominican Republic on my honeymoon. It was ~$300-350 which included a caddie.

I still would have paid it out of pocket, but fortunately the round was gifted to me from one of my wife's aunts/uncles who are also into golf.

The most I've paid for a round is $50-60. Like @Buckeyebowman mentioned earlier, golf is pretty cheap in Ohio with sites like Teeoff.com and Golfnow. I'd say easily 75%+ of my rounds are booked with one of those sites.

I'd pay $1,000 for Augusta no problem, but I wouldnt pay more than $400 for any other course in the world.