One does not simply pay ones annual dues at a country club and then play unlimited golf. There is usually an initiation fee, then the annual dues, then the minimum to be spent each month in the dining room, then the incessant tipping of everyone you run into starting at the bag drop, the locker room, the often mandatory caddy, etc. Even without an initiation fee, dues typically run about 4 to 5 thousand a year. I could play more than 100 times a year on a villages course for that money as well as play for free on the exec courses. Because of this competition of free and inexpensive golf, I think a members only country club would be a difficult business model to make work here, especially since country clubs are quite often used for business connections and social interactions. Here, most of us have no need of business connections, and social interactions abound.
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