Will a new membership product change the Irish club golfing landscape?

A potentially revolutionary new golf membership product launched earlier this month offers all of those floating golfers an official World Handicap System (WHS) handicap for €119.

A potentially revolutionary new golf membership product launched earlier this month offers all of those floating golfers an official World Handicap System (WHS) handicap for €119.

There are no hard and fast figures but if you look beyond the 200,000 or so affiliated golf club members in Ireland, as many more again simply like to play. Not so much floating voters as roaming golfers.

It’s estimated that about 20,000 of them joined courses last year - an average of 60 or so per club - in what will be remembered as golf’s Covid boom but there are still plenty more out there. Have clubs, will travel.