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Originally Posted by tophcfa
Interesting read. The basic summary is that two factors, the weather and the amount of player traffic are responsible for the conditions. Given that the weather is a constant, which is out of human control, the amount of player traffic is the only variable which can be controlled. Since the conditions were MUCH better 5 or 6 years ago, before a crap load of new homes were built without a corresponding increase in available golf holes per rooftop, logic would dictate that increased player traffic is the culprit.
Simple solution, build more executive courses until the amount of player traffic is reduced to a level that allows the courses conditions to return to what they used to be 5 or 6 years ago.
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True in some situations, but this is a BUSINESS, that is the point. I hope this is a logical analogy: if you run a restaurant and make a decision to serve just a little less soda and a little more ice per drink, and people just keep coming, business is not only steady, but increases year over year. So you consider this, and instruct staff to use a little more ice and a little less soda, or let's say, you decide to cut your french fries (which are legendary all over your area) by just 6 fries per order, but they are so good, so well known, that your business continues to grow by epic proportions, would you actually make a decision to INCREASE the size of an order or your "legendary" fries, or go back to serving MORE soda and less ice, of course not, it's your BUSINESS, it is not the same as just asking your friends over for your excellent fries so you give them heaping amounts ! When people stop coming, when homes don't sell very fast, and when word gets around the entire nation that "that place, The Villages that's so "famous" for "free" golf, is not fee at all of course, how could it be ? But golfers and non golfers alike pay the freight for the golf courses, but the golf courses are little more than cow pastures, complete with the same kinds of weeks, THEN, a smart business person changes the business plan !