I'll gladly play $20 for DG but boy it better be an awesome DG experience especially with the plethora of free courses out there. IMHO the course needs to be at least 4.0 rated, pro shop, CLEAN bathrooms (porta jons don't count), and all the other amenities like benches, concrete pads, mowed fairways, thin shule, good baskets, multiple pins and/or multiple pads, a beer cart would be a plus and so would golf carts.
Then again...I think the price point is going to depend on what region you are in. If you are in an area - let's say Ludington, MI for example - where there are some (almost) free and awesome courses in the vicinity one would be hard pressed to come up with a course that is good enough to draw people for $20. It would have to be something special. Now, if you are right in Chicago and can somehow magically conjure up enough land for a 2.5 rated 18 hole course $20 all of the sudden seems reasonable in an area that is peppered with crappy 9 hole courses. Heck, $40 for something like that in that area and some folks around there aren't even going to bat an eye.
Then again...I think the price point is going to depend on what region you are in. If you are in an area - let's say Ludington, MI for example - where there are some (almost) free and awesome courses in the vicinity one would be hard pressed to come up with a course that is good enough to draw people for $20. It would have to be something special. Now, if you are right in Chicago and can somehow magically conjure up enough land for a 2.5 rated 18 hole course $20 all of the sudden seems reasonable in an area that is peppered with crappy 9 hole courses. Heck, $40 for something like that in that area and some folks around there aren't even going to bat an eye.