Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Omaha's Ironwood CC to Close
- Ironwood CC, one of the oldest golf clubs in Omaha (founded in 1924, and originally called Highland CC) will close at the end of this year, unable to make the debt payments on a huge...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Keeping It Green
- CNBC's web site has a perversely amusing piece about one business that's doing well in the recession: companies that paint lawns green. Here's the link.The article says demand for these services is way up now...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Wisconsin's Hillmoor GC in limbo
- The other day my colleague Pete Finch wrote about a Wisconsin golf club, Waushara GC, that had been rescued from financial collapse by its own members, who were actually pitching in and working at the...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- A Different Kind of Golf School
- There are lots of resorts in this country on the verge of going bankrupt -- and no shortage of ideas about what to do with the land and the assets of those resorts if and...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Bankruptcy For Trinitas Owners
- Mike and Michelle Nemee, owners of the Trinitas golf course in northern California's Calavaras County, have filed for bankruptcy protection. The move, reported by the Stockton Record, was designed to forestall a foreclosure sale on...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Georgetown Club Closes
- The Georgetown Club outside Boston closed on Monday, surprising golfers who were looking forward to the fall season and, according to the Boston Globe, a handful of couples about to get married there. The article...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Superstition Mountain Sale Scheduled
- The Phoenix area's Superstition Mountain Golf & Country Club is scheduled to be sold Aug. 11, the East Valley Tribune reports. It appears the likely buyer will be John Deere Credit, an affiliate of the...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Iowa's Glen Oaks In Foreclosure
- Glen Oaks Country Club, whose Tom Fazio-designed course is rated second best in Iowa by Golf Digest, is in foreclosure. So reports the Des Moines Register.The club and the surrounding homeowners' association are in default...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Monarch Beach Resort Facing Foreclosure
- The Los Angeles Times is reporting big financial problems at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, Calif.The resort's owners are in default on a $70 million loan from Citigroup Global Markets Realty...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Back From The Brink
- Most property owners at Mississippi's Lake Caroline desperately wanted the 18-hole Caroline Golf Course to remain open. Apart from allowing them a convenient place to play golf, it was also a lot better to look...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Foreclosure For Magnolia Green
- Magnolia Green, a major Chesterfield, County, Va., development that includes a nearly completed golf course by Nicklaus Design (pictured), is in foreclosure, the Richmond Times-Dispatch is reporting. The project is to be sold at auction...
Blog: 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...
