Discount Green Fees? Top 7 Questions to Ask

Are you really getting a great bargain with golf discount cards or are you just buying a useless membership that costs more than it saves? If golf is one of your life’s passions, you know how costly it is to play twice or more a week.


Add up $65 for greens fees + $25 for a cart, twice a week for 23 weeks and you spend will more than $3,500 a year to tee it up on golf courses. Your golf score may probably improve, but bank account probably won’t!


Many discount golf programs promise that you can “Play more golf and pay less.” Is that an “unplayable lie” or blasting out of a trap? There are many golf discounts from golf course greens fee arrangements. Some are on-line; some are printed coupon books.


Some work very effectively, where you can double your money or cut your fees in half. Some are real duds. To become a savvy buyer that your golf buddies and friends look up to. Use this 7 question checklist to figure out whether buying an on-line membership golf card is worth it.


1. How many courses belong to the discount golf course network?

Is it 10? 50? 150? 3,000? The more courses the better. Why? Because if 100,000 people buy the membership and there are only one hundred courses, you’ll get stuck trying to get a good tee time.

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