Have any golf courses closed in your area?
February 14th, 2009
| Tags: 3 Years, Area Golf, Decline, Doors, Golf Courses
birdieboy asked:
Golf is in serious decline. Golf courses are closing their doors in record amounts, more courses closed than opened for the last 3 years. Have any courses closed in your area?
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Golf is in serious decline. Golf courses are closing their doors in record amounts, more courses closed than opened for the last 3 years. Have any courses closed in your area?
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I live in the home of Golf: Scotland - so no, not that I’m aware of lol
No, but I work at one and business is bad. We’ve laid off workers and cut our hours. Things will change though.
two have changed management companies, and one became a bunch of houses. central florida east coast.
Rachael Petralito
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No courses have closed but a couple of private clubs are offering special incentives for open play to entice people to play their course, enjoy the dining facilities and bar and be exposed to the present membership. Some of the promotion is not being well received by the membership which is paying full dues.
We had one course get bought by a developer because no one would step up and buy it to remain as a golf course…..but that was a couple or 3 yrs ago
british colombia canada. two courses in bankruptcy. one was public owned course. other had plans of adding r v parking. etc. courses are open in theory. since canadian foreclose wants them open for potential buyers. both were within 40 miles of vancouver canada . third largest city. green fees were reduced , workers were hired at minimum wages. but the courses will need heavy financial improvement. and to think this is the pro vine that has wasted millions on the olympics. all it did was slow play down. other courses jumped on this to increase green fees. including courses owned and operated by the city of vancouver. who also did away with senior green fees. junior green fees.
There was one course that closed down a couple years ago, but it wasn’t very good and it was close to roadways, which made it dangerous to drive by.
One golf course near where i live closed, but they relocated to another area because they wanted to extend a south course.
yeah 2 have in the last year i saw a thing on the news about it so im hoping the one i mainly golf at wont
nope golf where i am (sydney australia) is thriving
This is a regional issue. For example, in the South East (SC, FL, etc.,) of the US there is an over supply of courses. Up to about two years ago there was a lot of financial pressure to sell out to developers for housing and many of those deals had already been signed before the housing/financial implosions.
Other areas (domestic or international) can bring to market a new course and have it do well. What tends to happen is that a course will have a strong showing until another course in the area replaces it as ‘the’ course to play, OR it declines due to service, quality of design, etc. Courses that stand the test of time with high usage are rare - some other factor usually helps them out (strong history, currently is a tour stop, only course in a region, etc.)
We had one close due to poor design & an inability to get the proper building permits. No chance of it becoming housing, so it will probably go back to grazing land.