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re: The Island closing for good
Posted on 4/3/20 at 11:31 am to BallChamp00
Posted on 4/3/20 at 11:31 am to BallChamp00
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BallChamp00
Where you working at now?
This post was edited on 4/3/20 at 11:32 am
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Posted on 4/3/20 at 9:53 pm to BallChamp00
Why? Always seemed to be people out there.
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:02 am to IL Duce
You must not ever go to a Baton Rouge golf course Monday through Thursday or October through February. They are all empty.
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:58 pm to FishQuiz
The new bridge that has been talked about forever may have helped.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 6:40 am to FishQuiz
That’s a bummer
Posted on 4/5/20 at 9:27 am to tiger626
The bridge they talked about in 05 was suppose to go from plaquemine to Zachary/St Francisville. It would have been a huge help to Beaver, Copper, Bluffs and The Island.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 7:03 pm to BallChamp00
the Island is not closing for good.....just for the CV-19......
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:07 pm to RMGC
Wrong, closing for good!
Posted on 4/5/20 at 10:29 pm to ChrisBurky
Any news on perspective buyers? Hate to see it close.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 10:40 pm to RMGC
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the Island is not closing for good.....just for the CV-19...
If it opens back up it won’t be with the same owners.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 9:10 am to BallChamp00
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Nowhere
You should have married one of those Wilbert kids.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 4:27 pm to MidgetGolfer
I was told by a long-time member that the owners lost 1MM a year on that club/course. He said the family had so much money that it was a drop in the bucket and they didn’t care. I guess they finally cared.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 5:33 pm to In The Know
I was told Davidson at squire creek's goal was to only lose $1M/year.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 6:50 pm to In The Know
They’ve had terrible management the past 10 or so years with the exception of Dan and Chris
Posted on 4/6/20 at 7:22 pm to In The Know
I was the GM/Director of Golf for the first 10 years , those numbers are well overblown
Posted on 4/6/20 at 8:42 pm to dirtytigers
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They’ve had terrible management the past 10 or so years with the exception of Dan and Chris
The people who own the island are no stranger to running and managing a business. If they cannot make it work with their business experience and connections over there then that should tell you something about the golf business.
The best manager ever couldn’t go to to these BR publics and make them work. The economics are garbage for golf in BR. People just default to “the Management sucks”.
They have no capital to work with, customers who want to bring their own beer, who disappear Monday through Thursday and all winter and who all want 8AM tee times in Saturday for dirt cheap with primo conditions.
People need to realize it isn’t a management problem in BR. It is an economics problem.
This post was edited on 4/6/20 at 8:46 pm
Posted on 4/6/20 at 9:29 pm to lsu13lsu
Lived in Louisiana for two years. The problem with golf there is also deeply rooted in the weather conditions and topography. The constant rain and moisture makes it difficult to maintain a course without a lot of money and hard for courses to drain. I don’t think the public golf in BR is that far off price than most places. But it just costs more to keep a course nice down there. The course budgets at BRCC and CCLA must be insanely high
Posted on 4/6/20 at 9:37 pm to nerdmachine
Agreed. List is long for why golf sucks here.
Volume is a bigger problem than price in BR. Golfers spread across too many courses. So not one course stays busy enough.
Like you mentioned weather sucks. It is really wet. Really dry. Really hot. Really cold. All in the same month.
ETA: I do think prices here are depressed by LSU and BREC. You can get on those courses for cheap as heck.
Volume is a bigger problem than price in BR. Golfers spread across too many courses. So not one course stays busy enough.
Like you mentioned weather sucks. It is really wet. Really dry. Really hot. Really cold. All in the same month.
ETA: I do think prices here are depressed by LSU and BREC. You can get on those courses for cheap as heck.
This post was edited on 4/6/20 at 9:52 pm
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