Woof.
I agree with you but I always end up with gift cards for Oak Hollow. I end up playing there 4-6 times a year.Good price. Oak Hollow is my least favorite golf course on Earth, so that's $23 too expensive for me.
It's definitely a better value than almost everywhere else in the country. I want to throw up when I read stuff about dog track courses in some metros being minimum $100 rounds.
The stability and community at our CC is great, but the biggest things we justify the cost with are not having to fight for tee times (you need to be quick for prime weekend times, but that's fine), practice facilities, and being able to walk a 4-hour round even on weekends. In the triangle right now you're looking at 6-hour weekend rounds on almost every public worth playing.
Six hour round? What does that even look like? That's beyond horrendous. Either really bad golf or super stacked tee times.
Our club is affordable and not super congested. Great pool. Solid clubhouse. Family friendly. Not stuffy but not white trash everywhere either
Pretty much every public course that’s affordable in LA is a 6 hour round which is why I pretty much stopped playing for 15 years.
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I have a friend that works at Meadowlands. He kept telling me they promised him certain positions and raises but nothing ever happened. I need to text him and see if he is still there.
Naw. A young guy.Hogan? He’s not there anymore if so.
What course are ya'll referring to as "MC"?Public golf in NC will always be one of the best values around.
There is something to be said about the stability of a CC, but the cost of private golf definitely gives one pause. And I know MC saw dues go up considerably over the last few years and now is shutting down for a year for renovations.
What course are ya'll referring to as "MC"?
I've pretty much stopped playing on weekends other than Interclub matches and tournaments. It was taking way too long. Plus kid sports dominated most of the weekends anyway.
Oh yeah, duh. I thought they shut down for some renovations less than a decade ago when they rebranded to Maple Chase, am I my misremembering?
I've never been a member there. But I want to think they became MC maybe closer to 15 years ago. Doing a big renovation again currently. Others can weigh in with more details.
Drop because of the renovations this year? Think it will be really nice after it seems. And probably a lot more expensive to join.I dropped my membership at M.C. in January.
I'm sure public prices will hurt me this summer, but I've been pleasantly surprised with the affordability of some courses around here these days.
I was able to book a time today (Saturday, late morning) at Oak Hollow for $23 including cart.
Drop because of the renovations this year? Think it will be really nice after it seems. And probably a lot more expensive to join.
Not sure exactly when it changed from Pinebrook to Maple Chase, but it’s been less than 10 years.
At that time they did minor renovations - new putting green, range, rerouted #1 and added/moved a handful of bunkers.
This renovation will be to redo all 18 greens with 007 Bentgrass, reshape and recontour most of the greens, move #4 green on the other side of the creek, fix drainage, etc.