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Golf Courses & Golf Travel / Deeds and Weeds

An Easement For The Pain?

The Lu Lu Country Club outside Philadelphia is the site of some interesting drama these days. Thanks to reader Steve for tipping us off about it.The nearly 100-year-old club, with a Donald Ross-designed course, has...
Monday, 8/10/2009 at 5:47PM
Golf Courses & Golf Travel / Deeds and Weeds

Ravisloe Update: 'Someone had to fall'

Deeds & Weeds has already covered the story of Ravisloe CC, the 108-year-old suburban Chicago club that was sold to a local veterinarian and turned into a public facility this month after a catastrophic decline...
Thursday, 4/23/2009 at 11:13AM
Golf Courses & Golf Travel / Deeds and Weeds

Lansing Club Struggles

The venerable Country Club of Lansing, which opened 101 years ago in Michigan's capital, has lost roughly 20 percent of its membership in the past couple of seasons and is now in foreclosure, WILX-TV is...
Thursday, 4/16/2009 at 10:09AM
Golf Courses & Golf Travel / Deeds and Weeds

Update: Sacto Area Voters Say Yes, Too

Residents of Wild Wings, a community with a nine-hole golf course in a Sacramento suburb, sent a clear message on Tuesday: They want to keep their golf course open, even if it means paying...
Thursday, 3/12/2009 at 5:56AM
Golf Courses & Golf Travel / Deeds and Weeds

Will Sacramento Course Re-open? Members Vote

Today is a big day at Wild Wings Golf Course, a golf community in the Sacramento suburb of Woodlands. This is the day residents find out if they will have a course again. The Wild...
Tuesday, 3/10/2009 at 10:29AM
Golf Courses & Golf Travel / Deeds and Weeds

Illinois Club Reborn as Public Course

Ravisloe Country Club was a private golf club for 108 years. But it couldn't survive the recession of 2008-09. The facility, located in the Chicago suburb of Homewood, Ill., closed last Oct. 31, a victim...
Sunday, 3/1/2009 at 5:16PM
Golf Courses & Golf Travel / Deeds and Weeds

Ohio Club Allows Public Play: Sign of the Times?

Like a lot of private golf clubs these days, Wildwood GC in Middletown, Ohio, was having a problem with declining membership. The exodus since the end of the 2008 golf season had created such...
Thursday, 2/19/2009 at 10:41AM
Golf Courses & Golf Travel / Deeds and Weeds

Bay City Battlers

A few days back I posted an item on the struggles of Bay City Country Club, tucked underneath Saginaw Bay in northern Michigan. The club was supposed to be sold at auction today, a date...
Friday, 2/13/2009 at 2:24PM
Golf Courses & Golf Travel / Deeds and Weeds

Hawaiian Punch

Golf clubs in Hawaii are feeling the heat, just like everywhere else. Today's Honolulu Star Bulletin has a roundup article on how a few of the big-name clubs are handling the economic pressure. The...
Monday, 2/9/2009 at 6:30AM
Golf Courses & Golf Travel / Deeds and Weeds

Members Try to Save Their California Club

Lots of stories these days about golf clubs in economic distress. Here is one of those stories -- with a twist. The struggling club has a small but dedicated band of members determined to keep...
Sunday, 2/8/2009 at 4:23PM
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