| Golf is getting more expensive to play. I love the | | | | ripped off. |
| game but the outlandish golf course green fees | | | | There are too many bad golfers playing on the |
| and cart costs are making it harder to afford. I | | | | weekend which will slow down play and make you |
| believe the green fees started to rise in the | | | | wait endlessly to hit your next shot. When this |
| 1990's. Today it is hard to find a golf course that | | | | type of situation occurs it will only hurt your |
| won't charge you $50 for green fees on | | | | game. You will tighten up, lose concentration and |
| weekdays and more on the weekends. These | | | | guzzle beer after beer waiting to hit your next |
| fees are rising ahead of the cost of living. | | | | shot. All you are getting out of this round of golf |
| What happened? I believe a lot of golf courses | | | | is a buzz-on and sunburn which you could have |
| are being built to adapt to the weekend duffer's | | | | done in your own backyard at very little cost. My |
| game with plush fairways and manicured greens. | | | | thinking on this is to avoid the 6 hours trying to |
| This over indulgent need to provide perfect | | | | play a round of golf on the weekend. |
| playing conditions has skyrocketed golf course | | | | The biggest rip-off of all is on those golf courses |
| maintenance budgets. | | | | that a cart is mandatory but you are only allowed |
| Whatever happened to the reasoning of building a | | | | to drive it on the cart path. This kind of golf is |
| course according to the lay of the land with all the | | | | utterly ridiculous. Let's take a look at this scenario. |
| slopes and valleys? Where the only maintenance | | | | Suppose you hit your tee shot to the left and the |
| being done was cutting the fairways and watering | | | | cart path is on the right. Now what do you do? |
| the greens? Mother Nature was in charge of the | | | | You don't know what kind of lie you have and |
| fairways and rough. I still play a few of those golf | | | | you don't know the distance to the green for |
| courses in Pennsylvania at $12 for green fees, $6 | | | | your next shot and it's a long walk to your ball. So |
| extra for a riding cart on a weekday. If it's | | | | you take two to three clubs out of your bag and |
| mid-summer you can expect semi-brown | | | | take the long walk to your ball. After you hit the |
| fairways. Your game changes according to the | | | | ball, you take the long walk back to the golf cart. |
| course conditions. Isn't that what golf is all about, | | | | The big problem is that this type of play goes on |
| adapting to the course? | | | | all day long - for the whole round. So, I ask you, |
| Also, many golf courses are being built to | | | | why do you have to pay for a cart when you |
| promote real estate in the area surrounding the | | | | are walking most of the time anyway? Are you |
| golf courses. This will definitely add to the rise of | | | | being ripped off? |
| green fees. Are you being ripped-off? Another | | | | I would like to add a page to my blog with golf |
| thing that has changed for the worse is the use | | | | courses whose fees are $25 or less to play a |
| of riding carts. This is a costly added expense to | | | | round of golf. Do you play one? If so, it would be |
| your golf game and a lot of times a needless or | | | | much appreciated if you would share that |
| unnecessary expense. Let's take a look at this | | | | information with me so I can post it for all golfers |
| expense. | | | | to see. What I would need is the name, cost to |
| Some golf courses make a cart mandatory which | | | | play the golf course (green fees and golf cart |
| added to the green fees will raise their profits. | | | | fees) and its location (City and State). Any other |
| Other courses require carts on the weekends but | | | | info you might know about the golf course would |
| not on the weekdays. I suppose the thinking on | | | | also be helpful. |
| mandatory weekend carts is it will help in speeding | | | | I would then post it by state. It would give other |
| up play, which I don't agree. Think about it, with | | | | golfers an opportunity to play your course at an |
| or without a cart, it will take you 5 to 6 hours to | | | | affordable price. Please go to this article at |
| complete the round on a weekend. You are being | | | | Golfineer for more information. |