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'Major' golf announcement planned for Oakland Hills after fire Major golf championships could be headed back to Oakland Hills Country Club. Less than a month after a devastating fire engulfed [...]

An experience of crashing America's oldest and most exclusive club called Maidstone is described. The club consists of members mainly from the financial industry, who often own a house in the Hamptons. It is a very conservative establishment where a specific kind of routine is followed that does not change. Curiosity drives the desire to crash a club in order to know why only the rich and famous are allowed entry.

You owe us an apology,' Pat Corso snarled at his billionaire boss. 'I'm not apologizing to you,' Robert Dedman shot back. 'Fine,' Corso replied, 'this dinner's over for me.' Nine [...]

Arvida's River Hills Country Club upgraded its operation - and its bottom line - by working hard to stay close to its customers, aka, the members. The coming millennium holds [...]

The golf industry is the latest challenge for Canadian chartered accountants, providing a new business environment where they can exercise their skills. Accountants who have bought interest in or have bought their own country clubs, are stretching their managerial and financial planning skills to turn around the golf club business back into profitability. The golf industry's decline in previous years has been attributed to the exclusivity of these clubs, which slowly decreased membership that is the primary source of revenue. Many of the accountants are finding new revenue sources from country clubs and from flexible membership schemes to improve club facilities and services.

An extended family puts its land to new use - betting the farm on a bumper crop of greens. Bull Creek Golf and Country Club is a 170-acre family dream [...]

Sometimes downscaling can be the key to surviving in the new economy. FOR MANY YEARS the California Country Club had a profitable formal-lunch business. However, during the early 1990s the [...]

In 1991 the prospects for the four-star Dalmahoy golf resort were uncertain, due to an isolated location and a possible misunderstanding of its upscale concept on the part of travelers. [...]

Ted Allen, president of United Grain Growers, likes to get in a game of squash twice a week at his private club. And when he and his wife are at [...]

A description of how one club identified and responded to golf's shift from being a booming, expanding market to a more-or-less steady source of customers AFTER COMPLETING AN extensive external [...]

The Babington House country house hotel in Somerset, England, is unlike any other country house hotel. It is a private club with an annual membership fee of 550 pounds sterling, for which members are also permitted to use the sister hotel of Soho House in London. Facilities include two swimming pools, health club equipment and a cinema. All of the bedrooms are stylishly furnished with unusual baths forming a special feature. The hotel manager is determined to run the hotel with as few rules as possible. Guests can order breakfast at any time of the day or night, for example.

Declining membership and increasing costs have prompted many country clubs throughout the US to adopt profit-oriented concepts. This is especially true in foodservice. As country clubs strive to compete with hotels and restaurants, their need for extensive support from distributors grows. Several tips on how foodservice distributors can exploit this new opportunity are provided., The idea that the private clubs of the 1990s are stuffy, stodgy and super-exclusive is as outdated as tennis whites. In the face of declining membership and increasing costs at [...]

This week, a whole bunch of folks will be heading for Detroit to enjoy golf on a championship level. Oakland Hills Country Club is hosting the PGA Championship. We'll have [...]

Wig & Pen to close The Wig & Pen private members' club and restaurant on London's Strand will cease to operate this month when tenant Eddie Ertan retires. Located opposite [...]

It certainly is possible that Augusta National GC will admit women members, perhaps sooner than later. It is also conceivable, once all those patron saints of righteousness get a handle […]

At Pinehurst, commerce is carefully conducted. Every sale must reinforce the resort's uncommon appeal THE CURSE AND THE BLESSING of every successful resort is to uphold an elegant image in [...]

Pushing the tiny white tee into the ground and placing the ball on top, the 50-something golfer takes aim and fires a perfect drive that lands in the middle of [...]

American Golf has appointed David Pillsbury and Joe Guerra co-CEOs. Pillsbury, formerly president and chief marketing officer, will oversee operations support, new business and corporate administration. Guerra, formerly executive VP, […]

More courses consider Bermuda grass as option GREATER METROPLEX -- Bent or Bermuda? In golf circles, the answer isn't quite as clear-cut as it once was. While the choice of [...]

Golf fans will recognize the designers of the two courses at Walnut Creek Country Club in Mansfield. Former PGA Tour player and Dallas resident Don January designed the Pecan course [...]

Looking for a new place to play? Tired of making reservations at your favorite restaurant? Do you desire exclusivity, posh surroundings and like-minded people? Then a new boy's and girls [...]

New Player Enters Ownership Picture for Country Club Near Hot Springs THE 620-ACRE BELVEDERE Country Club north of Hot 1. Springs was scheduled to be sold to Jake Prince, president [...]

River Forest Country Club, near Freeport, has been sold to River Forest Partners, which is comprised of three partners: R. Gary Duster, J. Rodney Duster and Herman Tomer. The partners [...]

Prospective members of the planned Old Chatham Golf Club in Chatham County must be recommended by a current member and approved by the club's board before being accepted. A Feb. [...]