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http://thesandtrap.com/t/69435/how-much-is-a-normal-round-of-golf-in-your-location It seems like the average round of golf is coming in around $50 to $60 with a cart.
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thank you everybody for responding. It is really interesting to see what the prices are like. However, most of you don't have a location in your profile, or you didn't give an area where you live in your post. If you prefer not to mention what part of the country you live in, that is totally fine.
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I am curious. What does an average course charge in your area for a round of golf? What do you get for that normal round? In Chicago, I would consider White Pines to be an average golf course. With a cart for a Saturday morning is $63. A goat track by my house charges $25 for 18 holes with a cart (mon - fri) if you tee off before 8am. This is a STEAL in the area, the normal weekday rate is $39. So I would say in the Western Suburbs of Chicago, a normal round of golf during the week is $40 to $50 with a weekend round be $60 ~ $80 a round. For those of you that mostly play at country clubs, tell us what the course charges a guest for a round and mention that it's a country club (so we have a frame of reference)
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me first - but I only want one of those IT jobs where I don't have to work too hard, and I can show up late / leave early. Can you get me one that includes a country club membership? http://thesandtrap.com/t/68709/anyone-in-computers-or-it-career
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I thought we wanted it in the US, and isn't Texas it's own country ;) If we are going to have a TST open in Houston, it better be in January. Around say the 15th after the Texans have lost in the first round of the playoffs again ;) Which would work perfect for me as a Bears fan because we will already be watching from the sidelines.
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Chicago is easier because you have 2 airports with 3 major airlines having hubs here (United, American, Southwest) That being said, I am the first person to post in this thread from Chicago, and I have NO desire to plan something like this.
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How long ago was you last round? How much do you remember about it? Do you remember (from memory not looking it up somewhere) what you shot? How many shots do you remember from the round? Would you be able to recreate your score card from memory? Do you remember what you were working on for the round, or what your swing thought was? - this might only apply to me, but I always try to work on one thing and good or bad, I will work on that one thing for the entire round... Can you remember pin placements? If so, how many? Can you remember the people you played with (this assumes you played with people you had never previously met, if you were playing with a family member and forgot than I suspect you log off the computer and go seek medical help) I played yesterday, I can remember what I shot for the round, I remember which holes I got birdie or better, and double or worse on (the rest were par or bogey with most being bogey) I remember which part of my game was the most trouble some (putting). I can also remember the people that I interacted with on the course. My playing partner was a retired gentlemen named Vlad who grew up in the Soviet Union, and escaped prior to the fall of the Berlin wall. I don't know if I could reproduce my score card from memory straight through. I could Sudoku figure it out (fill in the holes that I remember and then fill in the rest) but I couldn't put a score from 1-14 (that is how many holes I played yesterday) and expect it to add up to what I shot. For the double bogey's that I had, I know what I did wrong that netted me a double, but for the single bogey's, I can't remember which shot it was that caused me to miss par.
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Sell it here or on craigslist. Offer it for 80 cents on the dollar (or 75 cents, what ever you think you can get for it) in exchange for cash. So somebody gives you $150 or $160 in exchange for the $200 nike gift card, and then you can use it for green's fees. Donate it to a charity and write it off on your taxes. Send it to me, and I will consider PM'ing you a thank you (can't promise anything, but the only way to find out if I will follow through is if you send it to me) Raffle it off, $1 6 tickets for $5, 30 tickets for $20 per ticket sell 300 tickets. even if 10 people buy 30 tickets each you still break even.
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This is the funniest thing I have read on this website in days. It really isn't funny, but I swear that in every 18 hole round, I will have at least one shank / bladed wedge shot. Different results, both come from the same position. ~50 yards away, tight fairway lie, holding my SW.
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I am a cheap golfer, I tend to play courses that are modestly priced. So that being said, here are a few of my reactions to the list above. 1. I rarely eat at the golf course. The courses that I play will typically have your regular pub kind of food. If I get a hot dog at the turn I am expecting ball park quality, give or take. I am never disappointed. 2. I have never set foot in a golf locker room. I change my shoes in the parking lot, and if I came from work, I use the bathroom stall. 3. Course condition is very important, but I don't expect Pebble beach on the courses that I am playing. Given my expectation of modest green's fees give me something that is consistent from hole to hole. Don't make the first and last holes lush, green and perfect because those are the holes the people getting ready to pay see. 4. Merchandise? It's a golf course, not a shopping mall. Even the most rinky dink courses that I tend to play have golf balls, tees, gloves, and socks. Everything else is a bonus. Finally, when choosing a golf course, there was a few things forgotten. Because if this article was written to help golf course tee sheets full, here is a few things they left off. a decent website - at the least, it should have the score card, the rating slope and tee distance, rates, a few pictures, and contact information. As a bonus, have a link to online tee bookings. If you don't have a website, I am likely to pick a different course. positive reviews online - we live in a society that EVERY other industry has embrased social marketing. If you are the course superintendant and you have not heard of yelp or golfnow's review system, you are likely going to have an uphill struggle to get my money. Not every review will be positive, but if you are conscience of those systems, you will likely at the very least respond to those reviews. finally - offer some deals, offer 9 hole rates for twilight. If I can't get in 18 holes, give me the option to pay a little less for 9. ie, if the course charges $30 to walk 18 holes for twilight, give me the option to play for $20~$22 for 9 holes.
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it's a solid idea, however just this spring we tried to get people from the Chicago area together for a golf outing. We had 3 pages of people that said they were interested. I took the initiative and organized a round for the beginning of the season, one other player actually made it out. A few weeks later, somebody else tried, nobody was available. After that, nobody even bothered posting to the thread. If we can't get a group of people that live in the same city together for a single round on a saturday a 2-3 day 4 round event isn't likely to happen.
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What is Your Oddest Driving Range Experience?
clearwaterms replied to Uncle Peter's topic in Golf Talk
that would scare the SHIT out of me... I mean he likely had to carry the golf bag on his shoulder, and it had to sit in his/your car from where, etc. Mine would probably be when I was a kid and didn't play golf all that seriously. I went to the range with a friend because we were looking for something to do. He somehow managed to hit a golf ball backwards into the parking lot. To this day, I watched him do it. He had a fairway wood in his hand, and the ball was off the turf. Somehow he hit the ball aiming down the range, and the ball bounced off the ground (no interaction with a pole or range guard, etc.) and went into the parking lot. It didn't go screaming into the lot, but I couldn't stop laughing all the same. The most embarressing experience I ever had at the driving range was after I built my first set of irons. I purchased a set of club heads online, and ordered true temper shaft pulls off of ebay. The ebay seller had mislabeled the shaft as a .370 parallel tip, and they were in fact Titleist pulls that were .355 taper. On like the 3rd swing with my 8 iron, the club head goes tumbling down the range. with my tail between my legs, I go to the pro shop and explain what happened and they said, no trouble, they would go rescue the club head for me. Then 5 minutes later I walk back in the pro shop again, and they looked at me puzzled and said "have they not gotten your club head back yet?" to which I had to say "no, I broke another one" -
I played a twilight round today after work. The front 9 was on the slow side, which guaranteed that I wouldn't have time to finish the entire back 9. At the turn, powered with the advice from the ranger that nobody was behind us, I spoke to the pro shop and asked if I could play the front again, rather than continuing to wait on the back 9. I only got to play 4 holes, on the 5th it was too dark to locate the ball off the tee box, so I walked in after 4. The 2nd hole is a valley like par 5 (down hill tee shot, then uphill to the green) & the 3rd hole is a short par 3 (140 on sign, but playing at about 125 today) On 2, I hit a drive high off of the face, so I left it around 270 from the green and blocked by the dogleg, a perfect hybrid left me around 50 from the green to which I was able to get up and down. The 3rd hole having played it once before was playIing a full club shorter than the yardage. I pulled the gap wedge put the ball a little back in my stance and made a swing that put as much backspin as I could muster on the ball. The ball landed on the front of the green and checked up and rolled 5' from the pin, sunk the putt. I followed up the next hole a medium length par 4 with a frozen rope drive, a PW into the green and 2 putts for par.
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Around $10 in labor, plus the cost of the shaft and grip. This should make it so the old shaft can be reused later. Some proshops might give you a break if you buy the shaft and grip from them, but that has been my experience.
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I have a 3i replacement as well. At first I didn't like it, it felt lighter than my g25 irons, so I would try to overswing it. Once I slowed my back swing down and remembered to take a short backswing with it, it goes like a rocket. I don't get as much height out of it as my 4w, but I get a predictable ball flight out of most conditions (rough, fairway, etc.)
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Windows laptop - what do you think of this for general usage?
clearwaterms replied to nevets88's topic in The Grill Room
4GB of memory isn't much for windows 8. a 5400RPM hard disk drive is pretty slow, compared to the preferred SSD. 4 cell lion battery probably isn't going to give you much in the way of battery life. My mother in law bought an idea pad a while back. It was a piece of junk, it broke multiple times in the 1 year that they had it. After one year, they finally put it in a drawer and purchased a MAC. They have not had ANY problems since. Now, I will tell you, that I make my living supporting Microsoft products, spend all day staring at a windows 8 laptop, and know the product suite better than most IT professionals. For the casual computer user, aka what you are describing your parents as. The Mac book pro or mac book air, is the way to go. A macintosh can't do everything that a PC can, but what it does do, it does simply enough that most people can pick it up and hit the ground running. Windows 8 is a good operating system, but honestly, it has alot of quirks that makes me prefer Windows 7 most of the time. Having a touch screen does help navigate it, but it is not without its faults. -
Do you consider this person a real friend out side of the golf course? What I mean is, do you think this person is an honest person in life's endeavors that actually matter? What I mean is, if this person is a true friend, and you trust him to babysit your child / dog / elderly parent, but he chooses to make himself feel better about the game of golf, he isn't hurting anybody but himself. Let it go. If, you don't associate with this person outside of the golf course, then he isn't a friend, and stop worrying about it. A good friend of mine once told me. "Everybody has their faults. Your friends, are the people whose faults you can deal with."
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Thoughts on the Noodle Long and Soft Ball
clearwaterms replied to Tailgater's topic in Balls, Carts/Bags, Apparel, Gear, Etc.
For economy balls, I really think the best deals are last years models. For instance, the TM TP3 for $19 a dozen from rockbottomgolf.com is/was a better golf ball (IMHO) than the top flite Game / Callaway HX Warbird / Bridgestone e6 from this year. They also have 3 dozen ammo boxes (3 dozen balls in a box without individually wrapped sleeves) for $51 a piece fo the tp3, and $45 for the HX hot plus from callaway, which was another great ball. -
Acceptable Scores for Handicaps - Learn Something New Every Day
clearwaterms replied to bkuehn1952's topic in Golf Talk
when you say "club without real estate" does this mean a group of like minded individuals who play publically available golf courses, but do so in a competitive nature? This is not a term I have heard before. As to your question, I have no idea. -
How many of you get the opportunity to play 27+ a day, and if so how often do you take advantage of it? Do you find that you play better on the 2nd 18, worse? Do you have any tips (riding a cart, drinking lots of fluids, limit practice swings, etc) I know that several people here do golf outings / trips where you might play 54 holes in 2 days, or 90 holes in 3 days, etc. I am more interested in the person that play 36 on a random Saturday because the course was empty and they have the most understanding family / etc.
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Is the Dallas club a daily fee, IE they include range balls and you can replay based on availability or is it typical per 18 green's fee type of event?
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Spikeless shoes.....
clearwaterms replied to sigfan2340's topic in Balls, Carts/Bags, Apparel, Gear, Etc.
I picked up a pair of these after trying all of them on, the most comfortable, best arch support of any that I tried (Golf Galaxy doesn't carry true) I had only ONE incident and it happened today as a matter of fact. My transition was a little too fast for the newly planted grass. I would agree with what others have said, short of the old style metal spikes, it wouldn't have mattered. Also, it is worth noting that these are VERY comfortable shoes, walking 18 and my feet are fine. -
You made the right choice on Harley over Victory... Victory costs the same as Harley and when its all said and done, nobody ever wants the used Victory motorcycles. So you end up with a bike that you have to practically give away when you decide to upgrade.
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The idea of "quality drives" isn't so much about a specific distance as it is, hitting it to within a 10% radius of your target. If you hit a hybrid 200 yards, than a quality shot for you would only be 180-220 from the tee box with a left right dispersion of say 10 yards. 10% circle around your target. But you are right, I scramble for almost every par or better, and rarely give myself birdie putts. I went out this morning, Par 71, shot a 92. I had a 10 on a short and straight par 5. Because instead of hitting a hybrid off the tee and putting it in play, I stubbornly tried to hit it off the tee box and dunked 3 in the water. If the first ball was in play I would have had a scrambled birdie. The hole is only like 450 yards long, my drive was like 235. I punched a 4 iron around 150, hit a wedge onto the green and sunk the putt. The backside, I had another quad bogey on a 175 yard par 3. The pin placement makes it a 155~160 yard water carry, but if you go to the right side of the green, you have a run up fairway, and only around a 115 yard water carry (big landing area) and the back right is protected by a trap. I pushed my tee shot left, and it carried the distance, but because it was left ended up in the water. The course allows for a drop at around 90 yards from the green. I should have taken the stroke and dropped and played for a up and down 4, or 2 putt 5. Nope, I dunked a second in the water, and then finally put the 3rd on the green for a 2 putt 7. I have the same opinion. I am just as accurate from the rough with a PW as I am from the fairway with a 8i. So a quality drive is something that has about 90% of the distance or better and is in position to hit the green (in other words, no scrambling required) Oh well, I submitted my driver video to Evolvr last night, once they finish laughing at the swing, hopefully they can help me get this corrected. Man, how I love this game. I finished this mornings round having struggled my way around the golf course. At the same time, I had a devil on my shoulder saying, nobody will miss you at work if you play another 18. (why do we have a halo smiley face, but no devils horn smiley face?)