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Have any golf courses closed in your area?
Golf is in serious decline. Golf courses are closing their doors in record amounts, more courses closed than opened for the last 3 years. Have any courses closed in your area?
This is a regional issue. For example, in the South East (SC, FL, etc.,) of the US there is an over supply of courses. Up to about two years ago there was a lot of financial pressure to sell out to developers for housing and many of those deals had already been signed before the housing/financial implosions.
Other areas (domestic or international) can bring to market a new course and have it do well. What tends to happen is that a course will have a strong showing until another course in the area replaces it as ‘the’ course to play, OR it declines due to service, quality of design, etc. Courses that stand the test of time with high usage are rare – some other factor usually helps them out (strong history, currently is a tour stop, only course in a region, etc.)
We had one close due to poor design & an inability to get the proper building permits. No chance of it becoming housing, so it will probably go back to grazing land.
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