New Member Information Pack Dec 2022

MEMBERSHIP
Royal Dornoch welcomes anyone who wishes to join the club and the process, as you
have found out, is very straightforward.
As a new Struie member you have had one or two current Full members propose you
(your current home club would have helped if you had only one current member) and
then your name would have gone forward to be approved at the next available monthly
Council of Management meeting.
Following that you will have received a full membership pack which includes this
handbook which we hope you will find useful and give you all the information you need
to make full use of your membership at Royal Dornoch. The following pages will detail
what these benefits are and how to access them.
There are really only two different classes of playing membership – Full Championship
and Struie.
Everyone joins as a Struie member and after a period of time gets the chance to
upgrade to Full Championship. This happens once a year when the subscription
renewal process has been completed and we are able to assess how many spaces
have become available. To find out the current waiting time for upgrade contact the
General Manager.
The membership year operates from April to March with all subscriptions renewals
payable on 1st April, and by 30th April at the very latest. During May we review the
numbers and make a proposal to the Council of Management on how many upgrades
to offer and these people are contacted at the start of June to complete the necessary
upgrade paperwork.
To be upgraded you need to be proposed and seconded by two Full Championship
members who are different from those that vouched for you to join as a Struie
member. As with your Struie application these members must have been Full
Championship members for at least 3 years to be eligible to do this for you. Also, for
the upgrade, it must be two members and another club cannot help with this.
Once you have collected the two sponsors then your name will go forward to the next
available Council of Management meeting in the summer. Your upgrade offer cannot
be held indefinitely so you have until the September meeting to provide the paperwork.
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