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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
A little disagreement on this
$800 sounds like the previous 12 club, couple rate, which is now 925
Besides priority tee times, which does have diminishing returns IF you're signing up as a foursome with some non-priority golfers, but still an advantage, you get $5 off summer, $10 off fall, and $15 off winter rates for a year round average of $9.60. Therefore 1 person playing 2x/week or 2 people playing 1x/week breaks you even
If you get a good deal on outside courses, say year-round average of $30 with cart, that's 16 rounds in 6 years for your $4800, or 27 rounds/year one person, 13.5 rounds 2 people. Minus the travel time and cost of gas.
With 12 championship courses at TV, 10 of which have 27 holes, so the equivalent of 17 courses, there would be some travel time to the 17 nearest outside courses of equal quality
And while "the public" can play, if they can get a tee time, they cannot play on equal terms--no reserved tee times, no discount, no pool, no tennis----so the courses at TV are semi-private by every definition in the book, not "public"
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At a discount of $9.60 you have to play about 97 rounds of golf in order to break even. Of course for a couple that's 48 rounds each.
I don't know what kind of value you put on the preferred tee times, but it's certainly worth it to some people and not worth it to others.
I think that it's really a shame that TV doesn't have truly public clubs where there are weekly events and camaraderie.
But, a golf course, like anything else is a business and a money making enterprise. The owners have determined the best way of marketing and selling their product.