Hey guys and girls!
Thought I would make this thread so that people can get an idea of what memberships cost in different parts of the world.
Please list:
1. Your course name and where it is located
2. Adult Male / Adult Female / Junior / Senior
3. How much $$$ you pay for your membership per season / lifetime / etc...

I will go first. I just moved to Alberta (here in Canada) not so long ago and have been looking for a course. There is a decent course close to me but it's $9000.00 for a lifetime membership and I don't have that kind of cash to drop, especially since I won't be living here all my life. So looks like I will be joining a nice little 9hole course for $475/season.

1. Acme Golf Club (9 hole course). The course itself is located in Acme, approx. 20 minute drive North of Calgary.
2. Adult Male
3. $475.00 per season

Hi I play at a Links course and its GBP 950.00 a year and worth it!

Lundin Golf Club
Lundin Links
Fife
Scotland

Male £375 Junior £120 Senior £175 "NO Female members"

$5,000.00 initiation: payable over 5 years.

$4500.00 (Single) Dues for just golf.

Can add tennis and swim memberships as well.

i'm seriously considering the country club across the street cos it very convenient but it's a bit expensive. the membership costs $170,000-175,000 with monthly dues at $90. but it does boast 4 x 18-hole course and one 9-hole course, full club facilities (bowling, pool, gym, theater, numerous restaurants ..and two ranges ie.the works). my current club is a ex-military club (also with the works) and i have a term of 10 years which cost me just $4000, with monthly dies of $20. but it's a term and it expires with no residual value.

Tangle Ridge GC, Grand Prairie, TX
$2400 / year

1. Great southwest in Grand Prairie TX (dallas/Fort worth area)
2. Adult Male
3. $0 initiation, ~$340-$360/month depending on how many times i ride in a cart (cart fees are $15/ride, so I walk mostly)

I am a member of Canongate Golf Clubs in the metro Atlanta, Georgia area. You can see thier website at www.canongategolf.com.

They are in a time of large expansion buying up many clubs in the area and in S.C. and Houston under Sequioa Golf Company. So their prices have gone up this season but still a very good deal.

Family yearly membership - usd $1500.00 p/year to have access to approx 15-19 clubs. Average cost p/round weekday $8.00-10.00 plus usd $14.00 cart fee. Weekend a little higher.

If you do not want to pay fees everytime - for approx usd $3000.00 p/year - for your home area courses.

Pay about £300 as a youth/under 21.
Membership at gleneagles, looking at about £2.5K But thats with 3 18 holes courses(and another in the works), a 9 hole par3 course(solid as a rock, shoot par round there consistently and you are a serious player!) pitch and putt and the best practice facilities in the area.

$170k is absolutely ridiculous.

Kings Forest here in Hamilton, Ontario. The 2008 fees will be $1,700.20. Why the $.20?

Central Kentucky The Bull $1500 per year plus $300 for cart or a Monday through Friday rate for $1000 plus cart. Or add kids for $250 year, women same price, we believe in equality! No min monthly.

Cowans Ford Country Club at Lake Norman...Charlotte, NC area.
Junior Full Family membership for my wife and I...includes tennis and swimming.
$1500 initiation for junior...I love bing 30 yo.
$5000 (non-equity) initiation for above 35yo.
$8000 (equity) initiation for above 35yo.
$225 monthly dues for all.
White tees 6400 yards 70.7/129 Pretty wide open beautiful course with FAST greens! I hate putting there.

Fox Hollow Golf Club
Nova Scotia, Canada
900.00 per year
par 72- 6600 yds, 132 slope

My club is Ayden Golf & Country club located about 1.5 hours east of Raleigh,NC
$1,000 to join.
We are allowed to have our own electric carts housed on site.
Monthly dues are $105.00 per month and play ALL you want.
If you don't own a cart the monthly dues are $75.00 per month.

If you don't own a cart members can pay $10.00 per round to rent a cart.

If members want to walk of course that's free.

1. B.P.O.E. 1135 Golf Course, Elkins WV 6104 yds par 72.
2. $525.00 per year ( $800 per year non- Elk) and $150.00 trail fee (private carts; storage included). Juniors $150.00 per year.
3. No tee times needed.

Sawmill G.C.
Fenwick, Ontario
$1480.00 Full Membership...no monthly minimums.



King's Forest is one of the BEST courses in the region, and is very easily one of my favourites. Over 7100 yards off the tips...how much more could you possibly want? Played it last July...OMG the WORST conditions EVER!!! With rerouting the Red Hill Creek throughout the course (for construction of the nearby Red Hill Expressway)...most of the irrigation lines were cut. Resulting in NO WATER. Didn't help that we had an extremely hot & dry summer. Course was like concrete...everywhere! I may has well of tee'd it up on the Q.E.W. It was a shame to see such a fantastic course, in such poor shape. Hope they can bring it back to life for you in '08. Being a public course, I've found it's conditions over the years to vary. Most times great...other times...not.
The .20 must be a penalty of sorts...just 'cause you live in Hamilton...

Double Oaks Golf Club (Formerly Sandy Creek Golf Course)
Commerce, GA
550 Yr full membership, no initiation, no monthly minimums

Definately one of the best deals in the North East Georgia area.

mine was 10 grand a year all told
the wife said enough ... and I finally agreed
man its nice putting a grand in the bank each month now and I dont like golf anyless

Hey- is anyone a member at tpc snoqualmie ridge? (or any other private tpc?)
I'm hoping to hear someone's account of the course, (and whether it's possible to think of being a member or just a pipe-dream to think of playing/joining there)

if you wouldn't mind sharing the initiation (under age 40) and monthly dues either on here or via pm, i'd be grateful.

Those numbers are so cheap.....I'm assuming a lot of public courses in there?

When I played at our nicer public courses ($80-120 green fee) memberships ran about $3100/year.

Our private courses generally run from 10-35k for the share, 10-15k for the transfer, $3300-4500/year in green fees (single), with a $600-800 spending minimum (which gets spent pretty easily anyways).

Only government could come up with the $.20 It amazes me that it is such a nice track and the city hasn't completely screwed it up yet. Can hardly wait to hit the links. If it ever stops snowing....

I play at Whistle Bear just outside of Cambridge
From the tips (not where I play) : 7717yds 136/74.2 stunningly well conditioned
Membership 3000 /yr no minimums

Cheers,
Erik

Jyväskylä, Finland
Course name: Laukaa Peurunka Golf 6100 m par 72
Adult year fee is 450 euros (can play about 6 months).

No extra fees for tee-times, but 20 euros for a car.
(We do not use cars unless you have to.
Last yearI didn't see any using a car, when I was playing.)

Very normal prise in cenral Finland.
If you don't get an annual fee, and pay just for green fees, it's about 30 - 40 euros per round.

My club is a Ross design that was built in 1912 and only costs me $270 for golf dues, plus another $20 for handicap and $30 for locker fee. My company owns the club so it is by far one of the best perks of my job.

I pay $3,500 annually for my membership.

it's not a country club, just an awesome golf course and practice facility.

Actually, the rerouting had nothing to do with the Red Hill Expressway as it was done to curtail erosion of the exisiting creek bed and create new fish habitat. Conditions were much better later in the year.

Dupont by chance? I play in Western Massachusetts and am 25 years old and my membership will cost me about 2200 with range and handicap.

No, it is not DuPont. Dupont is around $3K upfront and another $3k a year for dues.

Must be LuLu CC.

Evergreen G.C PA.
I Marshal so its free

My Club is $5,000 initiation and approximately $350 a month. May let it go though... Just not using it enough to justify the expense.

Massena Country Club, which really isn't a country club, it's just a title. It's just a public 18 hole course
Junior
for me its $165 for the season, with a few time restrictions but there not bad at all. For an adult its like 800 I think.

I was misinformed then. A single that joined our group to make 4 told us what I stated earlier. Sorry about that. Guess he didn't know what he was talkin' about then. King's Forest is definitely one of my favourites to play. I may give it a go again this year then. Thanks for the update.

I hear that Fox Hollow is great. How do you like it?

same here.

And you cant not get anything cheaper than that??? Where's that?

I'm in Alberta, Canada.

And no, that's as cheap as it gets for a private course.

For the public courses, yes there IS cheaper....but it surely isn't at our "nicer" courses.
I think there are a few goat pastures that run $1000/year.....

i am going to join www.ironvalley.com

weekday membership is $1200 with a $15 cart fee, but i plan to walk all year unless it's brutally hot...

an extra $400 will get me weekend and holidays, but if i play on the weekend, i won't be able to get anyone to play with me there, since it's like $65 weekend fee, for non members...

Kogarah Golf Club ,Sydney, Australia. Adult $1570 AUD Annually. $20 Weekend Competition fees. Unlimited play during the week or weekend if not palying in the comp.

$250 per month until i'm 33...then it's $65,000 for the senior membership (and monthly dues go up to about $500)

I am not a member but rates on average in my area are as follows:

$5,000-50,000 initiation fee

$350-$800/monthly dues

Carts are usually $30/18 holes

I just cannot justify the cost of dropping $10,000/year to golf maybe 30 times.

I'm a member of a private TPC. Rates really depend on where you live. My course when I joined was $40k, but I think it is now up to $65k. Dues are about $6k annually. If you stay 30 years I think you get 100% of your initiation money back.

I am so happy, I just signed my contract for membership agreement at a new course coming in to my neighborhood. Its a Jack Nickalaus course called Westham club (http://www.westhamgolfclub.com/).

Its $6K US for initiation, $175/mo individual, $230/mo family. Scheduled to open in Fall 09.

I turn in my form tomorrow!!

It can't be LuLu since it's a member-owned club.

I'll bet it's McCall Golf & CC.

Speaking of LuLu, they have a deal with Plymouth where you have full privleges are both courses.

That is a great program, I think more clubs will do something similar in the future to help keep members. Because right now there seems to be a lot of movement in between clubs that are cutting some good deals for new members.

Something like this would be good for all involved.

I agree with you that it's a nice program. Downingtown and Bucks County have a similar deal as well since they are owned (at least for now) by the same company.

I'm not sure, however, how many other clubs, if any will follow suit.

I would not be shocked to see more and more of the same in the future. Clubs are all struggling like crazy to generate revenue, so if they offer members a change of pace now and then as long as the distance is not too far people will be more likely to keep the memberships.

Not to mention guys in sales like myself can go call on customers that may not be local to their own course and have access to top quality golf and conditions.

Some course belong to a deal call reciprocal golf, the program does what I mentioned above at a failry reasonable fee.

http://www.reciprocalgolf.com/

1. Kalamazoo Municipal Golf Courses (2 courses in Kalamazoo MI)

18 Holes - Milham Park (6,600 yds - Slope 130)
27 Holes - Eastern Hills (6,800 yds - Slope 119)

$800.00 for 2008 Membership (Fees go up ~ $25-$50 annually)

SW Mich is hard to beat in general, but our membership is particularly difficult to compare. Everytime I see a public course in similiar condition in other states the membership rates and daily fees are considerably more than what we pay. Not to mention that we have 2 courses, 45 holes total. It's not a country club ... but great conditions and tournaments for what we pay.

That would be correct. I was a member at Brandywine for several years and we had access to Penn Oaks, Cavaliers and Whitford as part of our membership.....you would be surprised how little you actually use it. I think I played each club maybe twice and that was because we were closed for a redesign.