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Originally Posted by waynet
with the money the Morse family gets from us there is no valid reason for any of the golf courses being in bad shape. All I hear are empty excuses. People it's all about the money they put into these courses,plain and simple. Yes, I'm bummed out,Cane is my favorite layout,it's one of the reasons I bought a home in Duval. Hire people who know what they are doing,give them a reasonable budget, and get on with it.
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The championship courses are self-sustaining, i.e, they exist on the revenue from greens fees, mostly. No amenity fee money is used.
Other than Orange Blossom, all the other courses are still under water restrictions limiting them to one day on fairways and two days on greens/tees and none on the rough. Yes, we've had some rain, but the ground got so hard from the dry winter/spring and all the cart traffic, that it is not penetrating well yet. It is not a coincidence that the courses doing best are those that are older with more mature turf.
Some of the brown areas of new sod are the result of treating aggressive weed infestations. The chemical used to destroy the weeds will result in temporary browning of the new sod. Give it time.
If you think about it, where would the benefit be for the developer to allow the courses to deteriorate for no reason. Would that not affect sales?