Finding new ways to add more comfort and pleasure to the golfing experiences at The Club at PGA WEST™ and its sister property, La Quinta Resort & Club®, is not an easy task. La Quinta’s rich history dates back to 1926, and PGA WEST, with its six courses, has provided a perfect complement after coming onto the scene starting in [...]
When Charlotte (N.C.) Country Club embarked in 2006 on a sweeping, $25 million renovation of its legendary golf course and clubhouse, it also decided it was time to overhaul one part of the nearly 100-year-old property that hadn’t existed for nearly that long but was also showing its age: the club’s website. Like many private clubs, Charlotte CC made an [...]
At Green Acres Country Club in Northbrook, Ill. (suburban Chi-cago), the management staff prides itself on being able to meet any member’s request. “If a member prefers a brand of bourbon we might not have on hand, we’ll get a bottle for each bar, even if it means making a special trip to a liquor store,” says Jeffrey Plain, the [...]
At first glance, Rolling Green Golf Club would appear to be a place that’s quite content to keep an old-fashioned approach to the club business. Tucked inconspicuously onto over 150 acres just off a busy stretch of U. S. Route 1 as it runs through Springfield, Pa. in suburban Philadelphia, Rolling Green still appears very much as it did when [...]
In the General Manager’s Report of his club’s October newsletter, Greg Gonsalves—as GMs must often do—addressed the latest development that was prompting a lot of talk among the membership at Round Hill Country Club in Alamo, Calif. “I have heard many rumors circulating about the cost of the beautiful new course clock,” Gonsalves’ column began, “Let me set the record [...]
When you’re spending tens of millions to dramatically transform your club through a project involving thousands of details, hundreds of vendors and a deadline that can’t be moved or missed, you need reliable and responsive vendors who can efficiently minimize the time needed to work with you, while maximizing the value of what they provide. And once you’ve placed an [...]
The Grande Pines GC in Orlando is the latest stop in his career where Chris Flynn is once again glad to see a familiar face each week. About a year ago, Chris Flynn took on the latest challenge in his accomplished career as a golf course superintendent—a 20-year path that has seen him tackle wide-ranging turf and weather issues [...]
Academic types are schooled to be skeptical until they see proof. The same could be expected of managers of academically oriented private clubs, such as the University Club of Michigan State University (UC-MSU), in Lansing, Mich. And it would hold that the burden of proof would be doubled when those managers are also distinguished college professors, as is the case [...]
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