re: University Club (LSU) golf membership cost

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This about sums up my last 3 or 4 rounds at santa maria. Show up with a 4-some and the guy at the tee asks if we mind 1-2 more join.....

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I think this is a product of it being the only public course in BR worth playing.

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I am very familiar with the triangle analogy. The problem I have is that the rush to have every golf course be a "championship course" with a "signature hole", is driving the learner out of the game. The reduction of courses is clearly driving overcrowding as well. When established courses like Sherwood and Fairwood go under without any option to opening up to the public, the duffer gets left behind. And without duffers, the game is stuck in a shrinking model. There has to be a model that can save the courses, even if the original owners go under.

Perhaps it's a function of the sport itself, it being so tied to personal bragging about status.

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I've spent the last ten minutes trying to explain my thoughts without getting a TL:DR. Suffice it to say, if there was a model in which a golf course could be saved and remain profitable, people would do it. I worked at a golf course in college and the goal set by management was to break even. Golf courses aren't a profitable venture, which unfortunately means that the golfing public has to suffer.