[MrParr1Noid]

How many of you guys remember what you used to pay to play..Back in the day..

$2 for the day here...

[PG527]

When i was young it cost $36.00 for a yearly pass at the local muni. I thought that was pretty steep in those days.

[dennis4190]

I grew up near the muni course where Gary Player won his first tourney, Seneca Golf course in Louisville, Ky. I remember going there when I was a kid in the mid 60's. It was .75 cents during the week and $1.25 on weekends. We always went during the week!! I think rental clubs were .50. I would cut grass or try to find returnable bottles so I could play. If there are any youngsters reading this they don't know about returnable bottles, ask your parents or grandparents. We would look for balls in the woods before we played and didn't play til we all found one. Wow, those sure were fun times!!

[DavePelz4]

How about if you hit an old balata ball a bit thin and it cut and smiled at you. Don't ever see that anymore.

[lindy72]

True about the balata balls and smiley faces. Not very forgiving. Or if you had Maxfli red or black dot balls...hard as a rock....I started playing golf on Long Island NY in the early 70s. Cost was 4 or 5 dollars at County Courses (Bergen Point was one). No carts, we always walked. Bethpage was about $9, even the Black Course......Could walk on any course at Bethpage during weekdays with no problem....Once I played Sayville on a holiday and took a cart and it was the princely sum of $11.....Times have changed....

[shuttle1]

Jr high thru high school... summer pass to the city courses was $50 (late 60's)

I remember when it went up to $75 That extra $25 was a lot of yard work.

[youraway2]

I was never able to play until I joined the military. I remember buying a sleeve of Achusnet Club Specials for .90 cents. I couldn't afford a sleeve of Titliest Balata's at $2.80. The daily green fee was about $3, walking.

I also remember what a slice was. Today's technology doen't allow a slice, I never see one now. I could slice a ball so bad I thought it would come back to me!

[justaman5]

It was .50 cents to play all day at the city's 9 hole course. A ball cost you .50 cents to rent, and if u brought it back you got your .50 cents back. No carts. All walking.

[scotchblade]

Per my 1964 Golf Course Directory (A Sunset Book)

Pebble Beach Golf Links - $10 weekdays and weekends
Pasatempo - $4 weekdays, $5 weekends
Harding Park - $2.25 + .25 reservation fee

Hard to believe, isn't it?

[morganmonroe]

scotchblade, on May 27 2009, 07:18 AM, said:

Per my 1964 Golf Course Directory (A Sunset Book)

Pebble Beach Golf Links - $10 weekdays and weekends
Pasatempo - $4 weekdays, $5 weekends
Harding Park - $2.25 + .25 reservation fee

Hard to believe, isn't it?

Great post. My inflation calculator says the $10 Pebble fee would be $69.45 today. Harding = $15.63

[smith5606]

Seem to remember that my buddies and I played an really bad course in Lubbock, Tx for around $1.50 back in the late 50s/early 60s. We'd take a couple of peanut butter sandwiches and $.20 for 2 Cokes and play all day. First task usually was to find a ball to play with. We knew where to look, though. Played with a lot of Club Specials and MaxFli Blue and Red Dots that we fished out of the high weeds behind one of the holes. Dern sure poked that grass with a 7 iron before you stuck your hand in. You might come back with something you hadn't counted on - something that might rattle at you.

[MrParr1Noid]

My senior year summer I used to take my dad to work, mooch $5 off him and drive 14 miles and play this decent 18 holer for $4. Now I had the choice of reaching in that candy jar and getting two custom's or walking around the perimeter for and hour or so and finding me a few.

LMAO, I do have to admit, that a time or two I did snatch and run...run back to the first tee with that guys ball before he noticed it was gone. I do miss those days, God that was fun.

p.s. That was $4 for all day.

[scotchblade]

Here's my high school golf card. Five bucks a month to play in the afternoons!

[cop]

I remember when I got a B51 ball, The pro at the club had only 3, and I won one of them .

[Sean2]

$1.50 for 18 holes. had an old hand-me-down set of spalding clubs (a true blade b/c that's all there was). my woods were made out of wood, had screws on the face, and fabric/string wrapped around the hosel area.

there were no fittings...finally learned years later that my clubs were an inch too short and 3º too flat.

i sure do miss the balata golf ball. best feeling ball off the putter. period.

[squeaker squeaks]

Hey guys - there's still cheap golf to be had - on a fairly decent course in Missouri... $5.50 for all the holes you can play, with a cart, after 6p.m. any day of the week. Normal rate is still pretty reasonable at $24 for 18 and a cart.

[tbowers2]

When I was in junior high (about 1971), green fee for 9 holer at San Jacinto College was $0.50. Saturdays me and a couple of buddies had pull carts, went around it 6 times (54 holes a day). Don't think I could phyically do that now!

[BEND OF THE RIVER GC]

I know military courses are not public, but back in 1990 as an E5 I paid $15 a month to join the Fort Jackson Golf Club and 50 cents per nine holes!

[shoe295]

Ha! 1964 junior pass was $20. I could play anytime during the week and after 3pm on the weekends. Used to play 45-54 holes a day. The third holes' green was by the clubhouse and if your score was particularly lousy we'd go across the street to the first tee and start over. Played a lot of Club Specials in those days. What a hoot! I remember the greenskeeper was a guy named "Weiner" who was just about as tall as my kid brother. Scared the crap out of me until I got to know him, turns out he was a city parks employee who was given the greenskeepers job knowing nothing about how to take care of a golf course. Learned on his own, and always kept the course playable.

[dlygrisse]

In the mid 80's I used to play the Wichita Kansas muni's for $6 on weekdays and $7 on weekends, all day fee to walk. The price seemed to go up about a buck every year or two, then they decided to "upgrade" the courses with irrigation in the rough, some redesign work etc. then the price jumped a bit. I remember thinking "Damn, someday golf will cost a dollar a hole" LOL I played Pebble this year at $495!. Nothing like "progress" to raise prices. While I don't live there any longer they still have afforable golf there, some of the cheapest golf in the country for the quality but there certainly aren't any ocean views.

[aslan]

$ 10 walking, SAT's commack, LI, NY, 1981

[dgs]

Back in the 50's, joined our local club - 10 shillings ($1.50) as a Junior member.  In the 60's when I turned 18, or maybe it was 16, fees for the year was around 15 pounds ($40).  Now that was in Scotland, and a round at The Old Course then was 10 shillings - no advance tee time required 

[cmilz99]

dennis4190, on Apr 28 2009, 08:09 AM, said:

I grew up near the muni course where Gary Player won his first tourney, Seneca Golf course in Louisville, Ky. I remember going there when I was a kid in the mid 60's. It was .75 cents during the week and $1.25 on weekends. We always went during the week!! I think rental clubs were .50. I would cut grass or try to find returnable bottles so I could play. If there are any youngsters reading this they don't know about returnable bottles, ask your parents or grandparents. We would look for balls in the woods before we played and didn't play til we all found one. Wow, those sure were fun times!!

Seneca is where my HS Team practices! If you are on a HS Team then you can get a pass for $60 and play for $1.50 until the end of november. Its probably the best of the Louisville Parks Courses, still...

[joshvoigt]

one of our marshalls who is 84 said he remembers paying 25 cents for a round when he started playing at our course! Its been there since 1939, a green fee runs 23 on one course and 17 on the other!

[dugums]

When I started, the local municipal 9 hole course charged $7 and would let you play as many rounds as you wanted. It wasn't a great course, but I really wouldn't have been able to afford golf without it at that point. Even better, if you got there before 5:15am it was free - played almost every day before school and work. I could normally get around the course by myself in an hour and ten minutes.

[rgk5]

In 1968 my membership was $48 for a 36 hole course.

[carogers1]

cmilz99, on Oct 13 2009, 09:32 PM, said:

dennis4190, on Apr 28 2009, 08:09 AM, said:

I grew up near the muni course where Gary Player won his first tourney, Seneca Golf course in Louisville, Ky. I remember going there when I was a kid in the mid 60's. It was .75 cents during the week and $1.25 on weekends. We always went during the week!! I think rental clubs were .50. I would cut grass or try to find returnable bottles so I could play. If there are any youngsters reading this they don't know about returnable bottles, ask your parents or grandparents. We would look for balls in the woods before we played and didn't play til we all found one. Wow, those sure were fun times!!

Seneca is where my HS Team practices! If you are on a HS Team then you can get a pass for $60 and play for $1.50 until the end of november. Its probably the best of the Louisville Parks Courses, still...

Gotta love Seneca. It's been in great shape this year. I am playing there tomorrow. Wish I could still get that H.S. rate you speak of though.

I used to walk over to a course near my house growing up. I believe it was about $5 for a jr. to walk all day.