Blog: Editors' Blog
- Private Clubs Story
- Golf Digest Editor: Your article ("How to Fix Private Clubs", by Davis Sezna) in the October issue of Golf Digest has certainly struck a nerve through out the private club industry. I have received over...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- The Meaning of a Strong Golf Club Market
- Are golf club memberships a reliable indicator of overall economic health?We've written on this blog throughout the year of the downturn in the private golf club market in both the United States and the United...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Bright Spots in Virginia
- As in virtually every other state in the country, the golf economy in Virginia is feeling the effects of the sluggish economy. Two of the state's 341 golf facilities declared bankruptcy in the fourth quarter...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Skibo Castle Goes Into the Red
- Skibo Castle, the lavish private golf club and sporting retreat near Dornoch, Scotland -- once part of the private club empire of Peter de Savary and probably best known for hosting Madonna's 2000 wedding to...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Golf's Economic Woes Make the CBS News
- Looking for proof that the golf economy is actually struggling? On Saturday's edition of the CBS Evening News, correspondent Jeff Glor filed a story about that very subject, focusing mostly on The Hamlet G&CC on...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- 'Multi member club' catching on in Chicago
- When a slumping economy causes membership rolls at private golf clubs to drop, is there a solution besides shutting down? How about offering modified memberships without full benefits?That's the idea behind MM (for "multi-member") Players...
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- Is The Golf Boom Over In England?
- Sobering look at the state of golf clubs in England in today's Times of London. The English Golf Union published a study that said 40 percent of the clubs in England had fewer members at...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Buyer's Market For Golfers In Ireland
- Thorough overview of the private golf club market in Ireland in today's Irish Times. Having made a couple of golf trips to Ireland over the years, I must admit I never thought of Ireland as...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Snapshot: The Orlando Golf Market
- Josh Robbins in today's Orlando Sentinel offers a "good news/bad news" assessment of the Orlando golf market, surely one of the nation's busiest (one local study said golf visitors alone to Orlando bring in $753...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Wheeling and Dealing in Richmond
- Read many of the stories about private golf clubs these days, and you would think they were a dying breed. Then you read an article like this, from Thursday's edition of the Richmond, Va., business...
- Kroichick: Just Sign Here
- The sputtering economy has many private country clubs scrambling for bodies, to the extent that a check and a pulse might be all prospective members need to get in the door
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- GC of California To Go Semi-Private
- The Golf Club of California, a struggling Southern California golf club whose members were trying to keep it alive after its ownership group shut it down late in 2008 (we wrote about it here), is...
