Sneakylong Yeah, we’re in snow bird season. The rates go up drastically. January thru March being the highest.
Whenever we're trying to book the Tampa golf trip, many course rates jump up the end of Feb. One "high end" course would be about $85 weekday mid Feb, but a week or 2 later it would be twice that and $250 weekend.
KCee Whenever we're trying to book the Tampa golf trip, many course rates jump up the end of Feb. One "high end" course would be about $85 weekday mid Feb, but a week or 2 later it would be twice that and $250 weekend.
I wouldn't know. We'd never pay that. On the Paradise Card for example Fox Hollow is $75 after Christmas. Right now it's $47. With our card most of the courses jump up after Christmas thru March.
Then in April they come down. Then we get the summer card which is from April thru October. TPC in Lutz used to be $41 on the card. Now it was $125 until 12/10 and is now $149 thru March.
Summer is the best time for locals to play here. Rates are much more reasonable.
I don't even want to know what I pay per round. Membership has its privileges. But low priced golf is not one of them. 
DonM don't even want to know what I pay per round. Membership has its privileges. But low priced golf is not one of them
Yeah, I was a member for 10 years at one of the Tampa areas best semi private courses. It’s the last course designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr.
The only way I could justify the cost was playing 3 times a week and walking. Otherwise it made no sense. When factoring in the cost of a cart it made no sense for me as well.
I now enjoy pay as I play and playing different courses. There’s no feeling of I have to play to justify the cost.
DonM I used to figure it out, but I don't want to know right now. My membership has doubled in cost since I joined 6 years ago and I played less this year. With a family and full time job I can't really play enough to justify it, but if I didn't join I'd probably hardly play at all.
If I was retired I don't know that I'd have a membership. You can play Mon-Fri then when everyone else is working and skip the pricier weekend rounds.
KCee If I was retired I don't know that I'd have a membership. You can play Mon-Fri then when everyone else is working and skip the pricier weekend rounds.
Exactly what my friends and I do.....we rotate around 7-10 of the nicest courses in the area (in our opinion anyway!), play them each 3 or 4 times a year and pay around $20 a round to walk.
KCee Our club offers a 5 day membership. For the first two years I've had the 7 day membership but I am leaning strongly to 5 day for 2024.
Mostly I consider it a luxury good that I've saved my money for and now I can afford it. Some people have other expensive things, I have a golf membership but don't spend money on much else.
fatshot Midwest/Great Lakes pricing! You can't beat it. Chicago was expensive but we were just far enough away that we didn't have high prices. Since Covid, though, the rural northern Illinois prices have gone up a lot. There is nothing close to $20 walking except for an old nine holer way out in the sticks, play all day for $20 or so.
rsvman2 A lot of the courses around here are that way. They were built jointly as part of housing development and as much of the layout is to maximize residential lots as it is to create a good golf course. The courses are still good, but not particularly friendly to walking with tee boxes often separated by large distances from the last green.
Played yesterday. Looks like it might have been the last round of the year. Played the backside first, shot 43 with 2 doubles. Shot 41 on the front for 84. Great day for the 15th of December.
Damn mind.
Finally made it out to a golf course with my brand-new Srixon irons! Coolish and with a breeze that intensified during the round.
Bogeyed all of the first three holes, but thereafter went one under from 4-8. The ninth hole is a shortish dogleg par 5 that is guarded by water on the right. Started my drive on a too-aggressive line and with a little fade. Had to take a drop. Ended up with a bogey for a 39. Not bad considering the weather, and on a course I rarely play.
As for the irons, they are a bit like a cheat code. There is a lake short left of the par 3 7th hole. I hit a terrible shot that I knlw would be been wet with my old clubs, and it ended up only about 6 inches shy of the green and i had an easy two-putt par. I could see where the ball struck the clubface; about a centimeter away from being a hotel rocket, and yet the result was a tap-in par. Another shot I felt that I hit it fat, but the sole went through the grass nicely anyway and i only ended up losing a couple of yards. These clubs are the real deal. I hope/think that they will lead to more GIRs because they are not only more forgiving but also have a much more predictable ball flight than my old irons.
Anyone want to play TPC Scottsdale on 12/30/23?
