(04-05-2018, 07:42 PM)KingIngram052787 Wrote:

(04-05-2018, 01:36 PM)JagsorDie Wrote: This is the only course i haven't played in Jacksonville. I've heard the membership is upwards of 80k a year. That was just something someone told me at a club house bar so that could be completely wrong. That is insane. I also think membership is one of those where you have to be refereed by a member.

That's right, depending on what kind of membership you get.  You can be an equity member or non-equity, which each have different initiations.

Most private clubs are referral based, that's nothing to be surprised by.

I understand why they do the referral base entry for their membership. Hell, scroll up thru this thread and see all the different "peeves" that just a few people on this board share and it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that their are some loaded golfers out there who want a course where the only people playing are people they know or are accompanied by someone.

My uncle is part a club like this up in Pennsylvania that is about half of the price of Pablo Creek. But there i always figured it was because of the lack of courses in the area.

I just always got a kick out of the fact that you have guys with so much money that they actually have a club where you have to be invited just to drop 100k a year. Like if i walked up with that much cash but knew no body; would they say "Sorry sir, your 100k is just  not going cut it, go make some friends in the area then we will talk about it" LOL.

I guess it was like when Ferrari made that ENZO model a while ago. You had to have purchased a certin number of Ferrari just to qualify to be invited to come purchase a car that ran 250-500k iirc LOL.

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