A Memo to “High-End Daily Fee” Golf Course Operators
I called a so-called “high-end daily fee” golf course on Wednesday evening
(about 6:00pm) to sign up for their Thursday skins game. The guy who
answered the phone told me to call back at 10am Thursday morning. Only then
would they be taking names for the skins game (that started at 1:00pm). Did
you ever wonder why golf courses are full of losers who have no jobs or
crappy jobs or no family or family that hates them? People that play golf
every once in a while make up a HUGE percentage of golfers. These same
people have lives, jobs, wives, kids, responsibility to each and respect for
their fellow businessman. Why don’t you golf course operator have respect
for them?
Do you want more “core” golfers? Screw core golfers. You want more of them?
Those are the losers who bring in coupons, smuggle beer onto your golf
course and spend as little as possible because they hack up your tees,
fairways, greens and bunkers almost every day. Is that the customer you
want?
I’m the guy who comes in, tips everyone in reach, sight and earshot, doesn’t
bitch about your insulting green fees or the garbage that was left in the
cart I just rented for forty bucks or the used scorecard or the dull pencil
or the beverage cart that manages to wave as she drives by talking on her
cell phone. And I’m the idiot that keeps coming back to your substandard
operation, because it’s the closest place for me to play golf, and in case
you hadn’t noticed by the feasibility study someone did when they developed
the fireant farm you call a golf course, people play courses that are close
to them. You aren’t competing with a course across town, moron. Like in a
round of golf, your biggest competitor is yourself and the apathetic
slackers you hired away from taking tickets at carnival rides.
Get with the program and care about your property. I do. Why don’t you?
