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Originally Posted by mickey100
I've complained in the past to John Rohan, and he admitted that they contract out to some companies who it turns out don't do a good job, but it sounded like they have to wait until the end of the contract with the bad company before they can ditch them and get somebody different. This was years ago, but it may still be the situation. I would guess the person who inquired got a canned response like "thank you for bringing this to our attention, we will look into it". And the wheels will turn slowly, and maybe by this summer the greens will recover.
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They've been doing this for 20+ years. You'd think they'd have figured something out by now. My understanding is that all of the Championship courses are owned by the same entity. There are , perhaps, a number of different corporate entities involved, but eventually, they all come back to the developer family. If I owned 14 courses, and some were in very nice condition, and some were dreadful, I would make sure everyone knew what the guys running the good courses know.
It makes no sense that all of these courses located within a few miles of each other can have such different conditions. I've read that it may be an issue with water restrictions. Maybe so. If so. If so, they should use more on the greens and less on the fairways. The fairways may then be bad, but at least the greens would be good. If you can't grow good fairways you can play preferred lies. But if the greens are just bumpy rutted sand, you got nothing.
I'm thinking Rohan would be in charge of the Executive conditions, since they are part of the amenities. I'd be surprised if he had anything to do with the maintenance of the Championship courses.