re: Santa Maria and all of BREC

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The course should be closed every Monday.

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Most nice places do close on Monday. This gives the course time for much needed maintenance after the weekend madness and gives the crew all full day without interruptions.

everything should be done at 9am? yea ok. nice try. impossible without a crew of 10+ and the equipment for those guys. youd be very suprised how many public courses have 5-7 guys counting supers, mechanic and assistants

Their prices are low because they are subsidized by the taxpayers.

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everything should be done at 9am? yea ok. nice try. impossible without a crew of 10+ and the equipment for those guys.

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That’s exactly what I said. If they can’t, they need more employees and equipment.

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Their prices are low because they are subsidized by the taxpayers.

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I get that, but they’re barely lower than some of the semi-private courses in the area.

Santa Maria is starting to get to the price point of it not being worth it for the conditions provided. Yes you can prepay for cheaper rates. I understand they are full, all day, everyday plus host multiple tournaments a month but some of the condition issues comes down to the golfers. Sand your divots, fix your ballmarks(and others) on the greens, rake the sand traps and dont allow certain individuals to drive wherever they want on the golf course. I feel like the geofencing is different for different carts/people.

They block tee times on certain day(s) of the week to allow maintenance on the course. I understand what they are trying to do but the small window they are blocking off isnt enough. The bunkers are unplayable. Close the course down on Mondays and perform a full day of uninterrupted maintenance(but this limits BRECs income). When its time to aerate, aerate the tee boxes, fairways and greens.

As far as practice facilities, the amount of laziness and flat out disregard for conditions continues to amaze me. You have a decent short game area if you were able to maintain it. It needs aeration terribly as the ground is so compacted and rock hard. Sand fill the divots, provide consistent turf conditions, and once again, maintain the bunkers. Provide practice balls for the paying customers at this area as well as the white PVC device to gather the balls (cant tell you how many times I have been out there and the short game area had no practice balls on it and the white PVC device was on the putting green by the 1st tee box or broken.) The green surround next to the first tee box is getting destroyed by everyone who thinks that is the short game area. Show up to the golf course in enough time and go to the real short game area. The short game area is also NOT an extension of the driving range. Walk or drive your lazy self to driving range and stop tearing up the short game area. Look at Beaver Creek as an example of BREC who maintains their short game area and provides good conditioned practice balls and turf conditions(white for short game and yellow for the driving range).

If BREC cared about golf and wanted to provide great golf courses I believe they could. Get rid of the buddy/buddy shenanigans, listen to the input of the golfing community, open all facilities at the courses, run the courses properly and have the people do their jobs and take pride in what they do. Look at the RTJ trail as a prime example.

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let me know where those people are. ill hire 3 now and my other super buddies will hire 3 each right now too. you are clueless man. no one wants to work. i know for a fact SM has one of the smaller crews of golf courses around BR.

so, to have everything done by 9am minimum:
2 guys on greens
2 guys on tees
2 guys on fairways
2 guys in bunkers
1 guy coolers and trash
1 guy changing holes

you just need to stop. you're the reason supers hate certain know it all golfers

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This should be good. Add 9 more holes to the mix and let him know how many people he needs to get it all done, then you can compare notes.

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let me know where those people are. ill hire 3 now and my other super buddies will hire 3 each right now too. you are clueless man.

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I’m 100% clueless here. No idea at all. Not like I’m in the industry.

Indeed gives us 30+ applicants each time we put in an ad. You have to pay for it not the free one.

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I get that, but they’re barely lower than some of the semi-private courses in the area.

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Those courses don't do the volume Santa does and my guess is both price and location. I know Santa does a ton of rounds from people in Ascension. You are comparing it to courses that would take 1.5 hours round trip vs max 40 mins RT for those AP residents.

Raise the out of Parish price and they will get more money or less play, either one is a step in the right direction.

I work in Lafayette 3 days a week and always pass by Jay and Lionel Herbert Municipal Golf Course. I noticed every Monday they are closed for maintenance. I decided to play 9 holes yesterday and the course is in good shape. They even had a guy raking the sand traps and another one going around and filling the sand bottles on every tee box at 4pm. BREC could learn alot from them about maintaining a golf course. The only problem I saw out there was to many divots on the greens but that's on the player's part. Also had a worker going around in the fairways putting sand in the divot but that's should have been filled by the player too.