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Originally Posted by golfing eagles

It's just simple math. You save $17 per round during the 4 winter months, $12 during the 3 fall months, and $7 for the 5 summer months. This works out to a weighted average of $11.58 per round through the year. A single priority membership at all 12 courses is $790, so the break even point is 68 rounds/ year. If you play 200 rounds, you save $1526 after paying the priority fee. If both you and your spouse play, the savings is much greater. Simple.

Now, if you go hunting (and driving), there are some bargains out there, and some reasonable courses as well, but you sacrifice convenience. For a top notch course, you will pay far more. People will complain about course conditions, but they aren't all that different outside the bubble, and the differences probably won't matter in the end to anyone but a 5 handicap or less. I played 3 rounds at Innisbrook last month and was not impressed. The main condition problem here is the wrong type of sand, especially in fairway bunkers. Personally, I prefer to support the community I live in, but to each his own.

Exactly, my husband plays a minimum of 150 rounds. He feels the courses in TV are as good if not better than the cheaper ones outside of TV. We moved here for the convenience not to drive around looking for cheaper prices.