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Originally Posted by PresqueIsle1-52
Being a priority member and choosing to return home to be closer to family during this difficult time was wondering if anyone is aware of any extensions or credits available for unused months of priority membership?
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No one who responded to this question seems to have considered that maintaining these golf courses costs almost as much when people aren’t playing or when the pools or restaurants are closed as when they are open. The grass still needs to be cut, watered, fertilized, etc. The pools still need chemicals and cleaning. The restaurants brought in money, but now they aren’t. Those who play golf pay greens fees and take lessons and tip. If the number playing declines, so does that income. They aren’t eating and drinking after they play right now, and that costs the clubs money. There may even be other costs right now that the country clubs don’t normally have. If there is a heavy rain that leads to some cart paths flooding or some parts of the course being too wet to support carts, that costs the country clubs more money than usual.
I understand wanting a refund, but consider how many people pay amenity fees that cover the cost of the executive course, yet never golf at all. It’s similar. I have a friend who paid $250,000 to buy a membership at his club in New Jersey, and now he doesn’t live there, but can’t get his money back. I think he told me he pays $15,000 a year for his membership at Golden Ocala, plus high greens fees. It seems to me that the fees at the country clubs here are a real bargain for such beautiful courses.
Snowbirds don’t get a discount on priority fees if they are only around for three or four months a year, so essentially their priority fees subsidize those who stay all year.