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Tbh they need members urgently and will have to do anything they can to encourage folk to join.

Leaving because of scrapping joining fees seems to me like hastening the inevitable and makes no sense, you have paid yours and wont get it back and will likely need to pay another one at any new course.

There cant be many courses in the area without joining fees now as for most demand far outstrips supply and may have either huge or closed waiting lists, so there is maybe a market for them to tap into.

I don't mind Monktonhall once a year as there are some decent holes and would be sad to see it go.

Duddy will go to well over £1200 this year too but is an infinitely better course than Monktonhall, but is also far far too expensive for what amounts to 5 months decent golf.

Those of us who were lucky enough to join East Lothian clubs before the most recent boom can consider themselves very lucky or extremely prescient.

I hear Scotscraig are in difficulties with legal disputes with their lifetime members over there being charged fees once again and there is talk of their being purchased by Kingbarns owners.

Prestonfield are also apparently feeling the draft as are many more of the non coastal borders clubs.
I think most of the parkland courses around here really suffer from wet conditions in the winter, last time I played at Prestonfield it was like a swamp with flags!

I’m with you, as an ex member at Monktonhall I like to go maybe once or twice a year for a change of scenery, I’m just wondering how much they are going to charge me as a “members guest” going forward


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