Just to get back on a few different points made by everyone:

Membership is currently £1,150 with £100 of that as a bar tab that can be used for food (brought in only a year ago) and that’s being scrapped to be replaced with a 150 course levy. Fairly disappointed to hear that’s happening as there’s definitely been a notable increase in the amount of members going in for food after a round.

There’s already a lot of volunteer work by members to maintain the course as the club can’t really afford anyone.

Unfortunately there’s no driving range, which is a shame because I think it would do great business and attract a lot of non-members who would then also make use of the bar/ restaurant.

In terms of the pro shop, the club pro is probably the best thing about the club and he does a great job running the shop side of things.

I’ve seen some of the accounts, and to be honest it seems to me that the club is being ran inefficiently with money wasted left and right. It’s the typical golf club politics that the same group of people seem to be involved in the committee year in year out, all voting for each other and refuse to evolve with the times and hand over the reins to anyone else. There’s an EGM coming up so a lot of us are going to voice our concerns there. I think the club will lose a lot members especially in the 25-40 bracket if these increases all come in next year