2/27/2015 3:02 PM
I'm in rural West Tennessee,we are a public course that offers "memberships",we are the only course in a county of 35k, and have only 4 courses within 30 miles of me, just as a point of reference. Your green fees are right in line with what we charge but our annual memberships are nearly double. We only have cart storage for 30 and it runs them $250/year plus $50 electric surcharge if they need it.
The biggest issue we have is calculating rounds played:
Our gold card members pay for a yearly cart fee in their dues and since they have to come in the pro shop and get a key we could keep some sort of tally of visits but not holes played.
Our members who own their own carts however do not even bother to come through the pro shop most days so we have no idea how many holes played they are contributing.
Being an old, established course that once was a country club it would be like pulling teeth to require our patrons to sign in or anything prior to playing, so I can point to a pretty firm number on outside green fees and rounds played from them but actual rounds would be impossible.