Archive for the 'golf clubs' Category

Tacoma, Wash.-Area Golf Clubs Struggle to Keep Membership Up

Monday, June 10th, 2002

Jun. 11 Most of us consider private golf club members to be financially comfortable people. But even if the members are well-to-do, that doesn’t mean the clubs themselves are doing well on their balance sheets. Nowadays, running a successful private golf club is tougher than breaking par.”There’s been a glut on the Puget Sound market […]

GOLF PRO CAN GIVE YOU BEST ADVICE ON CLUBS

Wednesday, December 1st, 1999

Q. I am a 5′2” woman just beginning golf. I am wondering if I should purchase a set of petite or standard ladies clubs? I have received conflicting information. I have a good swing for just starting, and a salesperson at the sporting goods store suggested that I purchase the petite set. A woman I […]

Sales scams tee off golfers FRAUD: Dozens of golf-club companies are suspected of cheating customers.

Saturday, September 11th, 1999

The golf-club company promised Michael Latta a chance to play better every time, with custom-built clubs designed to shave strokes off anyone’s game. Latta had never heard of Garden Grove-based Scimitar Golf. But the Ohio resident craved any tool that could lower his score, and plunked down $1,330 for clubs he’d never seen.The charge appeared […]

Good grief, kids’ golf clubs La Jolla Club takes swing at equipment for juniors with its ‘Snoopy’ line

Wednesday, September 8th, 1999

At North County’s big golf club companies, photos of sponsored tour professionals adorn the walls like shrines. Taylor Made has Mark O’Meara. Cobra has Greg Norman. Callaway has John Daly.And La Jolla Club has Snoopy.OK, Snoopy isn’t a pro golfer. He’s a cartoon dog. And that’s the point.For many of La Jolla Club’s customers know […]

TWO NEW BUCKS COUNTY GOLF CLUBS \ LOOKAWAY AND JERICHO ARE THE COUNTY’S FIRST NEW PRIVATE CLUBS SINCE 1924.

Tuesday, June 1st, 1999

Two new golf courses opened in central Bucks County recently, the first private clubs to be built in the county in 75 years.The $14 million Lookaway Golf Club in Buckingham Township opened on May 15, and three days later, the $13 million Jericho Club in Upper Makefield had the first shots fired down its fairways. […]

A BEAST RISES IN THE EAST//TROY BURNE GOLF CLUB NEAR HUDSON, WIS., WILL OPEN IN MAY, GIVING GOLFERS IN THE EAST METRO AREA A SHORT DRIVE TO A DEMANDING PUBLIC LAYOUT THAT FEATURES 121 BUNKERS AND PLENTY OF WATER WITH THE $75 GREEN FEES

Saturday, April 17th, 1999

The wait is almost over.With next month’s long-awaited opening of Troy Burne Golf Club near Hudson, Wis., a big-time public golf facility finally arrives in the burgeoning East Metro area. No longer will St. Paulites need to endure long commutes to The Wilds in Prior Lake or Rush Creek in Maple Grove for an upscale […]

CRITICS CHIP AWAY AT NEEDHAM GOLF CLUB’S DEAL WITH TOWN GOLF CLUB LEASE UNDER FIRE IN NEEDHAM

Saturday, July 25th, 1998

NEEDHAM — The Needham Golf Club has long had a chummy relationship with the town of Needham. Since 1923, the private club, which has 364 members, has leased 58 acres of town land to operate its nine-hole course.And while it pays a fraction of what other towns collect from firms that manage municipally owned courses, […]

GOLF TYCOON FROM CNY MAKES THE GREEN WITH NEW CLUBS AN INFOMERCIAL GAMBLE CREATED ONE OF THE NATION’S FASTEST-GROWING PRIVATE COMPANIES.

Wednesday, April 8th, 1998

One of the hottest new golf clubs on America’s fairways this spring is the brainchild of a former Syracuse-area caddie turned entrepreneur.Barney Adams, who grew up in DeWitt and Marcellus, has seen annual sales of his “Tight Lies” fairway woods soar from $1 million in 1995 to nearly $40 million last year. His Plano, Texas-based […]

ENJOYING THE GREAT OUTDOORS STONEWATER GOLF CLUB IN HIGHLAND HEIGHTS AND EAGLE CREEK GOLF CLUB INNORWALK ARE AMONG THE NEW COURSES IN THE AREA AT WHICH GOLFERS CAN TEST THEIRSKILLS

Saturday, May 3rd, 1997

The speed-limit signs leading into StoneWater Golf Club read “18 miles per hour.””We want people to slow down and enjoy their time here,” said Craig Immel, StoneWater’s co-founder and director of golf. The upscale, public course in Highland Heights opened all 18 holes of the Michael Hurdzan-Dana Fry designed course in April for the first […]

Trust buys 3 Tarrant golf, country clubs

Tuesday, August 6th, 1996

Three Tarrant County golf and country clubs - Diamond Oaks in Haltom City, Woodhaven in Fort Worth, and Great Southwest in Arlington - have been sold to California-based National Golf Properties Inc.National Golf Properties, a self-administered real estate investment trust whose units are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, has leased the management of […]