How about this question for you all, if you had a million bucks that you were forced to spend on a golf membership(s) where would you spend it? Would you go with 4 @ $250k? or 2 at $500k? or 1 @ $1mm?
Which of these would then be worth the price tag and which wouldn't?
Pat;
If I somehow had $1,000,000 I imagine I would have to consider what I want yet out of golf. I am a few years from retirement, and have only played golf a few years. Having come in late, I still have not played all the great publics I would like, not nearly. THAT would be my 1st golf priority. I would not spend a significant part of it on a private club under those circumstances.
Now, carrying the fantasy a few steps further; if I had somehow lotterized[
] to $100,000,000, where retirement needs outside of golf were not in doubt, then I must consider the value of belonging to some private clubs, if for no other reason, the reciprocity advantages and golf contacts for other private courses. Think they would let me into The Honors in Tennessee. That is one I have heard about since before I was playing, and it appears to be a true Dye masterpiece.
But that is all just golf.
The non-golf advantages to private membership are so far out of my experience that I cannot think of an inciteful comment to make. [Ain't that unusual?
].
Doug