Are golf course green fees out of control?

Golf is getting more and more expensive to play. I love the game, but the extravagant golf course green fees and cart costs make it harder to afford. I think green fees started to go up in the 90’s. These days it’s hard to find a golf course that doesn’t charge you $50 green fees on weekdays and more on weekends. These fees are increasing ahead of the cost of living.

What happened? I think a lot of golf courses are being built to suit the game of weekend fools with fancy fairways and manicured greens. This overly indulgent need to provide perfect playing conditions has skyrocketed golf course maintenance budgets.

What happened to the reasoning of building a field according to the lay of the land with all the slopes and valleys? Where the only maintenance that was done was mowing the fairways and watering the greens? Mother Nature was in charge of the fairways and the rough. She still plays some of those golf courses in Pennsylvania at $12 for green fees, an extra $6 for a ride cart on a weekday. If it’s mid-summer, you can expect semi-brown fairways. Your game changes depending on the field conditions. Isn’t that what golf is all about, adapting to the course?

In addition, many golf courses are being built to promote real estate in the vicinity of the golf courses. This will definitely add to the increase in green fees. Are you being scammed? Another thing that has changed for the worse is the use of riding carts. This is a costly additional expense to your golf game and many times an unnecessary or unnecessary expense. Let’s take a look at this expense.

Some golf courses make the cart mandatory, which added to the green fees will increase your earnings. Other courses require carts on weekends but not on weekdays. I guess thinking about mandatory weekend cars will help speed up the game, which I don’t agree with. Think about it, with or without a cart, it will take you 5-6 hours to complete the loop in a weekend. You are being scammed.

There are too many bad golfers playing on the weekend, which will slow down the game and make you wait endlessly for your next shot. When this kind of situation occurs, it will only hurt your game. You will tense up, lose concentration, and drink beer after beer waiting for your next drink. All you’ll get from this round of golf is a buzz and a sunburn that you could have done in your own backyard for very little cost. My thought on this is to avoid 6 hours trying to play a round of golf on the weekend.

The biggest scam of all is on those golf courses where a cart is required but you are only allowed to drive it on the cart path. This type of golf is absolutely ridiculous. Let’s take a look at this scenario. Suppose you hit your tee shot to the left and the path of the cart is to the right. What are you doing now? You don’t know what type of lie you have and you don’t know the distance to the green for your next shot and it’s a long way to your ball. So you take two or three clubs out of your bag and take the long way to your ball. After hitting the ball, he makes the long walk back to the golf cart. The big problem is that this type of game lasts all day, for the whole round. So, I ask you, why do you have to pay for a cart when you’re walking most of the time anyway? Are you being scammed?

I’d like to add a page to my blog featuring golf courses that charge $25 or less for a round of golf. Do you play one? If so, I would greatly appreciate it if you would share that information with me so I can post it for all golfers to see. What you would need is the name, the cost to play the golf course (green fees and golf cart fees), and its location (city and state). Any other information you may know about the golf course would also be helpful.

Then I would post it by state. He would give other golfers the opportunity to play his course at an affordable price. Check out this article on Golfineer for more information.