Green Fee Savers - Foreword
There is just something about a good deal that grabs your attention. And, for golfers keen on playing golf in newfound places, few deals grab and hold the attention as much as Green Fee Savers.
Celebrating ten years in providing top-class discount golf this year, the ‘Home of Golf’s’ No.1 half-price golf scheme has evolved into a deal-fest for hungry golfers.
Never before has the scheme offered so much variety in terms of its participating golf courses across England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. With GFS, you and your mates can save your pennies while you play at some of the most talked about and highly prestigious venues across the UK and Ireland. Links golf? Check. Championship links golf? Check. Parkland golf? Check. Hidden gems? Check. You get the picture.
In simple terms, Scotland’s most successful discount golf scheme has never been in better shape and the good news for golfers everywhere is that this year, the scheme’s celebratory tenth year in operation, nothing about GFS is going to change. As the old saying goes; if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
So rest assured that you can still play your half-price golf either down south in England, next door in Ryder Cup fever-land Wales, across the water to the Emerald Isle, or right on your doorstep in the world famous ‘Home of Golf’.
Golfers have been using our trail-blazing discount golf scheme for years and there doesn’t seem to be any let up. GFS, essentially, cuts a regular green fee in half with no add-on charges, and has grown incredibly since its inception in 1998.
Keen readers of bunkered, who operate GFS, may remember the scheme during its infancy when there were barely 80 courses involved. Yet, today, there are nearly 700 venues across Great Britain and Ireland that regularly welcome GFS voucher-wielding golfers.
Last year, the GFS scheme generated hundreds of thousands of pounds of revenue for golf clubs across GB&I, revenue that may not have been possible if not for GFS. You see, the golf clubs are the backbone of this scheme. They get to choose when GFS vouchers can be accepted, which enables them to fill otherwise empty tee-times with green fee-paying golfers. Golfers get half-price golf and golf clubs get empty tee-times filled.
It’s a win-win situation, according to Martin Dempster, the editor of bunkered.
“It is quite incredible to think that Green Fee Savers has been on the go for ten years now,” said Dempster. “Last year, vouchers sales were up on the year before, which proves that golfers just cannot get enough of the scheme and its simplicity.”
Indeed, making good use of Green Fee Savers could not be easier. There are no hidden charges, no booking fees, no administration fees and clubs do not lay down any exceptional rules outwith their own rules and the GFS rules and regulations as stipulated on pages 13-15. You just order your coupons, phone the golf course of your choice and it’s done.”
Coupons can be purchased by phoning the GFS hotline (0141 353 1715) – through this webiste (clink link on the homepage) or by sending in a cheque (payable to PSP Publishing Ltd) to PSP Publishing Ltd, PSP House, 50 Craighall Road, Craighall Business Park, Glasgow, G4 9UD.
Green Fee Savers is a success story in itself, but it has spawned an almost endless list of success stories since becoming the most-talked about golf scheme in the UK golf industry.
The quality of golf courses is, of course, paramount to the success of the Green Fee Savers scheme and 2008, the ten-year anniversary, offers a quite superb line-up of venues across the four home nations.
Registered Office: PSP House, 50 High Craighall Road