I'll jump in for a second. I know which course JK is referring to.
I've invested a lot of money as an early member of a couple golf clubs, helping them get built and established. It's a bitter pill to swallow when I share the golf course with people who pay a small fraction of what I did, and get all the benefits of membership. Not only at my club, but others as well. This should not be hard to understand. If you try to justify this type of club's existence by saying I should have waited, that I was stupid to invest early and made a bad investment, I'll be irritated at best.
As John says, it's possible to join a golf club and pay very reasonable monthly dues, as long as the club is paid for. For these beautiful new clubs trying to recuperate their construction costs, it costs more, and these clubs are typically hungry for that little extra revenue they can get from a traveling club like the Outpost Club. But it's tough if you're one of the members who paid big money up front.
Respectfully,
The other JK