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shit.... golf courses are incredibly expensive to maintain.... there goes any chance for a discount on his next contract......
Quote: @JimmyinSD said:
shit.... golf courses are incredibly expensive to maintain.... there goes any chance for a discount on his next contract......
On the contrary. With what athlete and/or fame-worshipping yoyos will be willing to pay to say they played on his course, he'll be raking it in B)
Quote: @JimmyinSD said:
shit.... golf courses are incredibly expensive to maintain.... there goes any chance for a discount on his next contract......
And public courses struggle to survive.
Quote: @RS Express said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
shit.... golf courses are incredibly expensive to maintain.... there goes any chance for a discount on his next contract......
On the contrary. With what athlete and/or fame-worshipping yoyos will be willing to pay to say they played on his course, he'll be raking it in B)
And even if they don't, at the end of the day, it's real estate. 20 years from now he'll probably sell it to a developer for twice what he paid for it. And I'm guessing he paid cash.
Quote: @StickyBun said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
shit.... golf courses are incredibly expensive to maintain.... there goes any chance for a discount on his next contract......
And public courses struggle to survive.
Not in my area. Public Golf courses are RAKING it in. Country Clubs are full and turning applicants away. Trying to get a tee time on a Saturday or Sunday morning is virtually impossible.
Quote: @Chuckf said:
@ StickyBun said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
shit.... golf courses are incredibly expensive to maintain.... there goes any chance for a discount on his next contract......
And public courses struggle to survive.
Not in my area. Public Golf courses are RAKING it in. Country Clubs are full and turning applicants away. Trying to get a tee time on a Saturday or Sunday morning is virtually impossible.
its likely a regional thing, there are parts of the country where you cant throw a baseball without hitting a fairway, and in tougher economic times I can see some of those lower end courses having a harder time keeping up financially. in rural areas the vast majority of courses are public, often the only track in the area so... I will say that the CCs up here arent as popular as they seem to be in the south where they can stay open year round, up here a CC is basically a March to October thing, most close up then since there just isnt much to do at the CC when its -20 and snow is measured in feet, although I do know of a few that keep their clubhouse bar and grill open for members, but usually limited hours.
Quote: @JimmyinSD said:
@ Chuckf said:
@ StickyBun said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
shit.... golf courses are incredibly expensive to maintain.... there goes any chance for a discount on his next contract......
And public courses struggle to survive.
Not in my area. Public Golf courses are RAKING it in. Country Clubs are full and turning applicants away. Trying to get a tee time on a Saturday or Sunday morning is virtually impossible.
its likely a regional thing, there are parts of the country where you cant throw a baseball without hitting a fairway, and in tougher economic times I can see some of those lower end courses having a harder time keeping up financially. in rural areas the vast majority of courses are public, often the only track in the area so... I will say that the CCs up here arent as popular as they seem to be in the south where they can stay open year round, up here a CC is basically a March to October thing, most close up then since there just isnt much to do at the CC when its -20 and snow is measured in feet, although I do know of a few that keep their clubhouse bar and grill open for members, but usually limited hours.
I can agree with that. I am here in Iowa and while golf courses are very lucrative the land here is so expensive because most of it is the top crop yielding acres in the world. The bushels of corn and beans we get here per acre is off the charts so we do not have what you would say is a LOT of golf courses compared to other places I have been to like Phoenix, Florida, SOCAL, Atlanta etc.
Quote: @Chuckf said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
@ Chuckf said:
@ StickyBun said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
shit.... golf courses are incredibly expensive to maintain.... there goes any chance for a discount on his next contract......
And public courses struggle to survive.
Not in my area. Public Golf courses are RAKING it in. Country Clubs are full and turning applicants away. Trying to get a tee time on a Saturday or Sunday morning is virtually impossible.
its likely a regional thing, there are parts of the country where you cant throw a baseball without hitting a fairway, and in tougher economic times I can see some of those lower end courses having a harder time keeping up financially. in rural areas the vast majority of courses are public, often the only track in the area so... I will say that the CCs up here arent as popular as they seem to be in the south where they can stay open year round, up here a CC is basically a March to October thing, most close up then since there just isnt much to do at the CC when its -20 and snow is measured in feet, although I do know of a few that keep their clubhouse bar and grill open for members, but usually limited hours.
I can agree with that. I am here in Iowa and while golf courses are very lucrative the land here is so expensive because most of it is the top crop yielding acres in the world. The bushels of corn and beans we get here per acre is off the charts so we do not have what you would say is a LOT of golf courses compared to other places I have been to like Phoenix, Florida, SOCAL, Atlanta etc.
its likely not the price of the land as much as its the lack of climate that people would want to flock to and play golf. every where in the US can have golf 6 months out of the year, its those other 6 months that the southern places have that we dont that makes them destinations for golf. Honestly what they spend down there to keep a course in playing shape... they could buy about any farm in Iowa ( or anywhere else) and probably come out money ahead, but alas, nobody wants to golf in the northern climates in the dead of winter.
Quote: @JimmyinSD said:
@ Chuckf said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
@ Chuckf said:
@ StickyBun said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
shit.... golf courses are incredibly expensive to maintain.... there goes any chance for a discount on his next contract......
And public courses struggle to survive.
Not in my area. Public Golf courses are RAKING it in. Country Clubs are full and turning applicants away. Trying to get a tee time on a Saturday or Sunday morning is virtually impossible.
its likely a regional thing, there are parts of the country where you cant throw a baseball without hitting a fairway, and in tougher economic times I can see some of those lower end courses having a harder time keeping up financially. in rural areas the vast majority of courses are public, often the only track in the area so... I will say that the CCs up here arent as popular as they seem to be in the south where they can stay open year round, up here a CC is basically a March to October thing, most close up then since there just isnt much to do at the CC when its -20 and snow is measured in feet, although I do know of a few that keep their clubhouse bar and grill open for members, but usually limited hours.
I can agree with that. I am here in Iowa and while golf courses are very lucrative the land here is so expensive because most of it is the top crop yielding acres in the world. The bushels of corn and beans we get here per acre is off the charts so we do not have what you would say is a LOT of golf courses compared to other places I have been to like Phoenix, Florida, SOCAL, Atlanta etc.
its likely not the price of the land as much as its the lack of climate that people would want to flock to and play golf. every where in the US can have golf 6 months out of the year, its those other 6 months that the southern places have that we dont that makes them destinations for golf. Honestly what they spend down there to keep a course in playing shape... they could buy about any farm in Iowa ( or anywhere else) and probably come out money ahead, but alas, nobody wants to golf in the northern climates in the dead of winter.
True to a point, the ONLY "tourist" attraction in Iowa is hunting. We are loaded with HUGE whitetails, pheasant, quail, Hungarian Partridge, and all the waterfowl you could dream of along the Missouri flyway. That being said really good yielding farmland is averaging in the 14K per acre up to 30K per acre. If that farmland is anywhere near a metropolitan area it sells by the square foot, not the acre. But your point does still stand with the golfing tourism year around and you couple that with we can really only golf here from April(if we are lucky) to end of October. So there are 4-5 months with NO revenue coming in.
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