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Old 02-25-2016, 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by waynet View Post
After reading the Daily Sun this morning I could not help but wonder how much money they make on golf. 3 million rounds a year. I think the Exec courses are free so I made an educated guess that 30% or 900,000 rounds are played on the Champ courses. At $30.00 average a round that's $27,000,000 . Add the $800.00 priority fee which I have no idea how many there are and that's a pretty good amount of money. I do not know labor costs but most workers are paid minimum wage. I also have no idea of material costs. All I know is that 27 million plus is an awful lot of money.
Sounds like a lot, but consider this:

Maintenance cost on our 9 hole course in central NY was about $150,000 per year, and was only being maintained from April 1 to November 1, 7 months.

Here there are 70 nines to maintain, 12 months a year, so extrapolating this is about 18 million. Plus, they farm out the maintenance so the company is surely making a profit. Then there is still the staff---ambassadors, managers, pro shop workers, tee time office, computer system operators and that cost of maintenance of that equipment and those facilities.