You have your choices, to pay or not to play.
What Pee's me off is there doesn't seem to be a concomitant rise in the standards of personal customer care/service with golf in the UK. In particular I well remember it was standard practice only a few years ago, that on turning up if the Pro had to apologise for greens just been spiked/bunkers or hole out of play for repair/etc they would automatically suggest I pay e.g. 50-75% of the publicised Green Fee.
On a number of times of times in recent years this hasn't happened. One course had an alternate hole in play (a featureless for an Par 4) and two holes radically shortened and the full Winter Green Fee was expected. At another famous course on here, I Queried the asking price (in of a Client I had brought) and mentioned the Green Fees quoted on the phone the week before. I was told the Assistant had obviously made a mistake as that was the rate when two or more holes were being worked on and in fact they only had large GUR areas on one hole that day, so list price was due. I was in no position to argue. Again took 3 friends to a course where I'm a member and (with no prior warning) the greens were all an inch deep in sand. Full guest fees please. Next day I called the secretary and he promised to discuss it at the next Board Meeting. My bad, I didn't follow this up.
I can give of other examples but it seems now that only at the lesser known courses does the Pro offer a discount at their discretion. At the 'expensive' end of the scale the fee is non negotiable, no matter what the state of the course. This is not a good business model going forward.