Your Local Golf Course

Local public courses are increasingly becoming better managed and easier on the avid golfer. Small private club courses are also seeing an upturn in the quality of their greens. They are learning that there are golfers out there that will enjoy staying local to play nine or eighteen holes.

There are a lot of virtues to staying local with your dollars. You are keeping the money you spend for greens fees in the local coffer. Everyone knows that a dollar spent at a local business stays in the local economy much longer than a dollar spent for a big conglomerate business. The same goes for your golfing dollar—consider spending it at a public golf course.

Public courses are often as well kept as nationally known courses. Occasionally, the managers of these courses have been hired away from the major, national courses. They move to small towns to manage courses there bringing their skill and managing abilities to these public or small private courses.

Attending a course in your own town can save you a few dollars as well. First of all, you will save on fuel money. With gas prices as high as they are, a golf trip of even an hour away can cut into the amount you are willing to pay on the greens. If you drive to local courses, you may save enough money to upgrade to greens fees with a cart.

Local courses can also provide great contacts and connections during play. If you go out as a single, you may have the fortune to be paired with another couple of players from the same community or even neighborhood as you. You could easily make some connections that you could call on for the next project at your job.

Private clubs can provide the same type of perks. Easily one of America’s forgotten treasures, private country clubs are trying to keep themselves valid in today’s society. In small towns there is often a country club with its restaurant, pool, tennis courts and golf course. Some people will find their club running excellent deals to gain new members.

Golfers like these clubs because the greens are generally in great shape. Usually, people are overlooking these clubs when they go to play. Although this means that the club has to work harder for new members, for those that join, the perks are great. Golfers especially enjoy the courses’ look and feel, while the membership fees stay easy on the wallet.

So, the next time you are looking to play nine holes after work, consider going to a local golf course. Not only can you just stop in a course on the way home, you will support the local economy, save a bit of money and find courses that are in great shape.