fees for moving from a junior to senior!

dog golf

hi all,

just wondering generally what clubs are charging at the moment for a junior member to move to full senior membership or student membership to full senior cheers! i know it sounds crazy in these times to be charging hello money for moving grades but my club has just decided to introduce these:mad:

BoardsMember

Interesting time to introduce these charges, but cant see the problem with them being there in the first place - it's hardly fair that people who come through the junior system avoid paying entrance fees, whereas people who come in a senior members have to pay 15k or whatever. In my club, there was no entry for juniors, but I paid when moving to intermediate, then paid again when moving to member. In total I paid the same as the member entrance fees.

dog golf

In total I paid the same as the member entrance fees.[/QUOTE]


would this be the standard for most clubs?

GreeBo

The fee for moving to through the ranks in my club is related to the sub for that category.
E.g Junior to Full (7-Day) is 5 times the sub (~11k)
Coming in off the street its 10 times (€22k)

Always been that way, otherwise the club (with a huge family ethos) wouldnt have a bean.

Dr_Colossus

GreeBo wrote: »

The fee for moving to through the ranks in my club is related to the sub for that category.
E.g Junior to Full (7-Day) is 5 times the sub (~11k)
Coming in off the street its 10 times (€22k)

Always been that way, otherwise the club (with a huge family ethos) wouldnt have a bean.

Wow expensive entrance fees for the current climate, what club is that if you don't mind me asking. Only fair that a junior who's already a member of the club shouldn't have to pay as much as someone in off the street. However is there a required length of time you have to be a junior member, I think alot of clubs seem to indicate 3 years before you're eligible for a reduction on the entrance fees? Also what stipulates a junior member, I recently heard of a club allowing some members to maintain their junior membership status up to the age of 30 which sort of makes a mockery of the word junior.

GreeBo

Dr_Colossus wrote: »

Wow expensive entrance fees for the current climate, what club is that if you don't mind me asking. Only fair that a junior who's already a member of the club shouldn't have to pay as much as someone in off the street. However is there a required length of time you have to be a junior member, I think alot of clubs seem to indicate 3 years before you're eligible for a reduction on the entrance fees? Also what stipulates a junior member, I recently heard of a club allowing some members to maintain their junior membership status up to the age of 30 which sort of makes a mockery of the word junior.

Grange in Rathfarnham, Dublin.
Took 17 in last year and another 7 this year so there are still people who will pay for the convenience of local club.

Juv -> Jun @ 18
Jun -> Snr @ 25-ish

Clubs will let members stay as junior as it allows them to take in more full members on full joining/sub. If all your free spaces are taken up by juniors it plays havoc on the finances for the year.

golfwallah

Up to last year, custom & practice in many clubs was to give juniors the benefit of a reduction in the entrance fee (hello money) on transfer from junior to senior membership.

However, the current economic environment has caused most clubs to abolish their Entrance Fees altogether or considerably reduce them, as they are a financial barrier to people joining golf clubs.

And with the decline in overseas visitor green fees, clubs need members now more than ever.

With reduced or non existent entrance fees, there has never been a better time to join a golf club. If your club insist on charging a fee for moving from junior to senior membership, there are plenty of other clubs that do not. Shop around .... the customer is king at the moment.

Paulusmaximus

The way our club has done it, is that the entrance fee you pay when going to full membership is the entrance fee of when you first joined as a juvenile. So if you joined as a juvenile in 2000, the fee of that time is the fee you pay when going from Junior to Full.

also you are given the option to pay this fee over 5 years. H Since the entrance fee has dropped recently, the fee you pay has dropped by the same ratio.