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Old 03-23-2015, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by ricthemic View Post
About five years ago Sun City had to close one of about six 18 hole golf courses. How wd you like to have purchased a home on the golf course which is now a pasture? Why did they close it? Every year the average age in sun city increases due to the fact that younger
Retirerees are not buying there. Demand for golf decreasing.
In Bluffton, SC ! Just outside of Hilton Head and in fact on Hilton Head, the very same thing happened but it had nothing to do with age but one because of bad management and the other because there were just too many golf courses for a sport that seems tobe declining. A lot of golf courses are struggling, even in my hometown.