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There's a right way to book this trip and a vastly more expensive way. Do it the right way and your round on the Old Course will cost you about $219 at recent exchange rates. Choose Door No. 2 and it will set you back as much as $1,800.
Think about it -- up to $1,800 for one round of golf.
Think about it -- up to $1,800 for one round of golf.
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It is true that most people pay far less than $1,800 for their round. But exactly how many tee times are used by the Old Course Experience -- and when? This is a matter of much debate, and it reflects how difficult the Links Trust can be to pin down on specifics. Peter Mason, the Trust's spokesman, says the Old Course Experience accounts for 5 percent of all tee times annually. This would equal roughly 550 tee times (or 2,200 rounds) per year. Yet when the deal was first announced a decade ago, the official number was approximately 800 tee times. Has that changed? No. Keith Prowse still has access to about 800 times a year, Mason explains, but the company doesn't always sell them all. (He says the unsold times are placed back into the daily ballot, or lottery, for play on the following day. That's good news for people who show up and want to make a next-day tee time, but it's bad news for tourists who plan ahead. If Keith Prowse hadn't controlled those 250 or so times that go unsold each year, they would have been available to visitors as $219 advance bookings.)
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