After being an itinerant golfer for the past 3 years playing at municipal courses and on good courses on the occasional society day, I've decided that I'd like to join a golf club. I'm too old to play contact sports anymore and having an empty Saturday will mean that the wife will have DIY plans for me. Hopefully I can play a bit more and maybe get into some competitions too.
Now, what I need to know is this; what are the most important points to consider when joining a club?
There are some issues like course length and cost that are fairly simple (I don't want to play pitch and putt golf and I'm not as rich as Bill Gates) but what are the other issues. Are practice grounds important? Will the social aspect be important to me? Teaching pros? Do I need to know if the halfway house makes good bacon butties?!
I live in an area which luckily has quite a few nice courses (Wimbledon in London, near the tennis, if anyone has personal experience of clubs in the area) and apart from visiting all of them, I have no idea how to compile a short list of clubs.
P.S. What are joining fees for? Does your large wad of cash entitle you to anything, or is it just a form of costly authorisation where the hoi polloi (like me!) are kept out if you can't afford it. It seems to be a hefty sum if it's just for the admin process of a new member joining. I'm pretty sure that you don't get it back but maybe you do.
Now, what I need to know is this; what are the most important points to consider when joining a club?
There are some issues like course length and cost that are fairly simple (I don't want to play pitch and putt golf and I'm not as rich as Bill Gates) but what are the other issues. Are practice grounds important? Will the social aspect be important to me? Teaching pros? Do I need to know if the halfway house makes good bacon butties?!
I live in an area which luckily has quite a few nice courses (Wimbledon in London, near the tennis, if anyone has personal experience of clubs in the area) and apart from visiting all of them, I have no idea how to compile a short list of clubs.
P.S. What are joining fees for? Does your large wad of cash entitle you to anything, or is it just a form of costly authorisation where the hoi polloi (like me!) are kept out if you can't afford it. It seems to be a hefty sum if it's just for the admin process of a new member joining. I'm pretty sure that you don't get it back but maybe you do.
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