The Amateur
$9
The absolute minimum. The Committee will accept your nine dollars the way a valet accepts loose change: with a nod, and a long memory.
Your trip gets a real tournament website. You remain on thin ice.
A Special Announcement From The Committee
Sir. It's nine dollars.
The Committee has reviewed your appeal for a free tier, and wishes to begin by confirming what your entire group already suspects: you're that guy.
You are, at this very moment, fully prepared to spend real money on green fees, travel, lodging, and at least one round of drinks you'll claim you “got last time.” And yet here you are — on this page — because the price of a gas-station sandwich felt like a bridge too far.
After careful deliberation, the Committee finds your position financially adorable.
Let the record further reflect: you have Venmo-requested a grown man for a single beer. You round every split in your favor and call it “close enough.” You have never once had the correct amount of cash. And you just spent more of your own time hunting for a free tier than the free tier would have been worth. The Committee sees you. The group chat sees you. Everyone has always seen you.
The ruling is final. There is no free tier. There are, however, three paths back to respectability.
Choose Your Redemption
The Member-Guest
$99
Let's drop the act. You didn't scroll this far for the minimum. This is the one with the hype video — a broadcast narrator taking your crew deadly seriously, built from the roast material your buddies submit about each other.
Every trip has two kinds of people: the guy who made the video happen, and everyone else asking who made the video happen. Ninety-nine dollars to be the first guy, forever. That's the whole pitch.
The Championship
$249
The MVP move — and the Committee says that knowing most men cannot handle it. Live leaderboard while you play. A recap video after. Full concierge treatment throughout.
This is the tier where the group stops using your name and starts calling you Commissioner. If you have to ask whether it's worth it, it was not addressed to you.
Choose wisely. The group chat is watching.