re: Anyone play Greystone lately?

That makes sense

Incorrect, Cody told me they did 50,000+ last year. That is a ton for 18 holes.

I agree Bones, hard to keep grass growing with numbers like that.

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The nice courses around the country are nice for a reason

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It’s not because of less than 50k rounds. An article from 2010 in Golf Atlas had Pebble Peach at more than 50k rounds. Their maintenance budget and schedule means they are literally cutting grass between golfers every week and sometimes daily. Of course, most public courses around the country can’t handle that amount and look that good. But let’s not pretend the nice courses are nice because they don’t get played often.

ETA: I realize pebble is anecdotal but I chose a public course where I could find some data. Think of any destination course: Bandon, Pinehurst, Whistling, TPC courses, etc. All those places support 4-man groups 12 hours per day for most of the year with very few rounds being canceled even due to weather. It’s the money they have that’s the difference.

Pebble starts at 4:30 in the morning with a 40 man crew in an environment that the grass grows year round and $700 a round. Schedule and/or price….Name a course around here like that.

You make a good point. It has helped my game travel if you can be disciplined enough to keep that same mentality elsewhere. Using 4 different clubs off the tee on par 4s and 5s because you have to isn’t appealing to most who just want to hit driver 14 times, but it can really help your game if you embrace it.

You are the one who brought up nice courses around the country claiming that they are nice because they limit play. I’m glad you now agree that there’s way more to it than that and it has much more to do with resources.

I didn’t say “limit” play. I said “control” the play. Big difference.

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$35M/year in revenue alone from green fees. Probably a maintenance budget of 10-20% of that. Probably a ton of walking from golfers.

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Are you suggesting south Louisiana public courses charge $500+ for a round?

I brought up Pebble for the reasons I described then added that it applies to nearly every destination course throughout the country. Did you miss that part?