Discounts That Fit to a Tee

It appears golf is especially popular among the senior set. Golf Card, a 20-year-old golf membership club, commissioned a recent survey by Market Facts of Chicago that found the average age of Golf Card’s 108,000 members nationwide is 61.

A Golf Card membership lets golfers play two complimentary rounds each year at more than 2,400 affiliated golf courses in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and England. California has 43 participating courses. Golf cart rental is required.

Golf Card’s Stay & Play package vacations offer discounts of 10%-30% at 400 resorts in the United States, Canada, the Bahamas and the Caribbean. Some top-rated courses are Mission Hills at Rancho Mirage near Palm Springs; Callaway Gardens in Georgia; the Arizona Biltmore; Tamarron Resort in Durango, Colo., and Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta, Canada.Members can choose from 17 Stay & Play resorts in California.

Membership also includes a subscription to Golf Traveler, a quarterly magazine that updates the list of participating golf courses, and a Quest International Card, which saves golfers 50% off hotel room rates and 25% off meals at more than 2,000 hotels worldwide.

A one-year membership with a money-back guarantee is $95 per person and $50 for a companion. For membership information: telephone (800) 321-8269.

A similar program is Golf Access of Southern California. Members get a 50% discount on greens fees at more than 2,100 courses in the United States and Canada. Cart rental is required. There are also savings on golf tours and cruises, and 10% discounts on tour packages at courses such as Hilton Head, S.C.; Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Palm Springs; Charleston, S.C., and Pinehurst, N.C. While Golf Access also has membership golf courses in every state and many foreign countries, its largest selection is in California and Arizona.

Members also are entitled to a 50% discount off room rates in more than 2,400 hotels worldwide, including Marriott, Hilton, Sheraton, Westin, Ramada, Holiday Inn and Best Western.

Golf Access members also receive savings discounts of 10%-25% on car rentals from Budget and National.

One-year membership in the Hotel Savings and Golf Savings programs is $99. For information: tel. (800) 692-0137 or (310) 944-2927.

A golf trip offered by Trieloff Tours is an eight-day Golf & Vacation Getaway at Hilton Head, which departs Southern California Oct. 2. The package is $1,599 per person, double occupancy, including round-trip air fare, seven nights at the Radisson Suite Resort on Hilton Head Island, a welcome cocktail party, daily continental breakfast, rental car and all cart rental and greens fees at five golf courses: Indigo Run, Arthur Hills at Palmetto Hall Plantation, Robert Cupp at Palmetto Dunes, Oyster Reef and the Robert Trent Jones course at Palmetto Dunes. Transport of golf clubs between hotel and courses is included. Price for an accompanying non-golfer is $1,199. Single supplement is $350.

For brochures or information, see your travel agent or call Trieloff Tours, tel. (800) 432-7125.