The 18-Hole Guide to Membership Benefits
1. Unlimited Access to your Course – being a member gives you the opportunity to play when you like and generally as often as you like at the times you like.
2. Play Competitive Golf – only by being a member of a golf club can you play regular official club competitions. Most clubs offer a weekend and a midweek competition, with the chance to win great prizes and money in the twos sweep!
3. Choose How Much You Play – you could choose only to play 9 holes or a smaller loop of 5 or 6 holes if the club permits. You wouldn’t have this option with ‘pay as you play’ golf.
4. Match Play Golf – experience the thrill of match play golf with our choice of knock-out competitions, including summer singles, four-balls or ballot foursomes.
5. A Great Clubhouse Environment – your local clubhouse can be a great place for eating, drinking and socialising with your friends, very often with value-for-money prices.
6. Free Hire of the Clubhouse Function Room – host a special birthday party, family event, work Christmas party, wedding or any other celebratory occasion in the clubhouse, with no cost to hire the venue. Our caterers offer a great range of menu options.
7. A Sense of Belonging – membership of a golf club is a great way to be part of the local community and network with other people from the area; golf clubs often form an integral part of the local town or area.
8. Meet New People – being a member of the club offers the chance to meet like-minded people, forming life-long friendships. This can be particularly beneficial if you are new to the area or local community.
9. Use of the Practice Facilities & Local Pro –improve your game on a regular basis with use of the club’s practice facilities and access to lessons from the resident PGA professional.
10. A Scottish Golf Membership Card –access preferential green fees at some of the best courses in Scotland through the Scottish Golf Membership Card, including world famous championship links such as Muirfield and Castle Stuart, saving you up to 50% against the standard green fee rates.
11. Gain an official CONGU handicap – only by being a member of a Scottish Golf affiliated golf club can you attain an official CONGU handicap, giving you the opportunity to play competitions at your home course and open competitions at others. Keep track of your handicap via the Scottish Golf Members Clubhouse and HandicAPP.
12. Get your handicap down! – playing competitions regularly at your home club or in other Open competitions gives you the chance to get your handicap down to your targeted level – what most golfers are striving for throughout their life!
13. Play in Team Matches against other clubs – you will have opportunity of representing your club in matches against other clubs, in your local area of further afield, with teams in all categories. Take pride in pulling on that team jersey!
14. clubgolf Coaching for Juniors – more than 300 golf clubs across Scotland have now introduced clubgolf, the national junior golf strategy, giving children a structured coaching and playing pathway at your club.
15. Invite Your Friends – most clubs offer preferential ‘Member Guest Rate’ green fees giving you the chance to invite your friends to play your course. By making this reciprocal among your golfing friends, you can play many courses at a fraction of the normal price.
16. Play National Championships – Scottish Golf offers players of all ages and abilities the opportunity to compete on the big stage, whether you’re a scratch golfer or high handicapper. Events for club golfers include the PING Scottish Mixed Championship with the final at Gleneagles, the Scottish Club Handicap Championship and the Revive Active Scottish Women’s Medals.
17. Become a Volunteer – Giving something back to the club can be a hugely rewarding experience and you don’t have sit at every committee meeting to help out! We have a number of sub-committees where you can lend your expertise in a relevant area, support our junior programme or even help out with a bit of gardening.
18. Invite your Friends – Bring them along to one of the club’s regular social nights, whether our end of season disco or summer BBQ. Or benefit from our membership referral scheme giving you money off next year’s fees when you recommend a friend to membership!
* Please note not all benefits will be applicable to all clubs so we advise you to pick and choose from the list to suit the specific arrangements at your club when promoting these to current and prospect members.