The Northland Board of Directors has approved a new junior golf option for members with grandchildren or children interested in participating in the program.Grandchildren - those between the ages of 7 and 18 - of all golf members and the children of social or clubhouse members are now eligible to participate in the Wednesday events. The day begins with some brief instruction by the professional golf staff and then the golfers hit the course for either 3, 5, 9 or 18 hole play.
The cost for the six to seven week long program is $60. Please call the golf shop to register. All participants will be eligible to play in the club's junior golf championship and in the annual parent-child golf outing.
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This is wrong. Resident Members pay a premium for access to the golf course for the members of their immediate family up to a certain age ($378.85/mo +$8,400 entry). The remaining membership classifications are priced to reflect their access to NCC amenities. Social membership dues ($50.00/mo + $750 entry) do not reflect golfing privileges at NCC. A resident member also pays $60 for their own child to participate in the Junior Program -- this is the same as this new offering -- this makes no sense! We are very disappointed the Board would make this kind of decision with NO consideration to the Resident (or PreResident) Golf Membership. This decision compromises the value of being a golfing member at NCC. The Board needs to give more thought to the full ramifications of this decision.
Mary Moline & Sue Liberty
The latest board action represents the continued watering down of NCC. The Moline's' are right on the money. The value of being a full dues paying resident member is continuing to erode. The club isn't about the golfing member anymore. It's a public property now. More non members and reduced pay members use the club now, yet the full residents foot the largest bill. This model used to make sense or at least was defensible. When the bulk of the expense was the course - you charged the people who used the course. Now the clubhouse is the largest expense, yet the bulk of the costs are still paid by the golfer. AND the clubhouse wasn't designed for the golfer. It was designed for the public. This isn't a pitch to reduce the resident golf dues. It's a plea to step back and look at what you are doing to those of us that pay the most. Where is the value?
I believe that six days of golf for CHILDREN and a couple of additional "tournament" days does not affect the value of a golf membership. These are children participating. It does not give them any rights to the course. Maybe the non-golf member participant children should have had to pay $100.00 or whatever. But, the possibility for additional golf membership upgrades for members whose children and/or grandchildren show an interest in the game has to be considered. I, for one, joined NCC for the benefit of my children. In addition, aren't we getting children interested in the game who may choose to become pre-resident and resident golfers in the future? I don't think the additional junior golfers will affect the games of the resident or pre-resident golf members. Perhaps we can benefit from the expanded program by garnering new members. Have we lost any golf members this year? Good for the Board for looking for ways to potentially increase the golf memberships at NCC. Kelly Johnson
Resident Golf Member
As for the concerns about the dilution of the benefits for golf members-who allowed for the expanded social category at such a nominal fee? The concerns regarding the burden of the costs may be valid but a children's golf program certainly has very little bearing on the issue.
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