Suntree County Club's Classic Course was one of the first official tour stops for the Senior PGA Tour players through the eighties and the early nineties. Fairways, roughs and green surrounds newly renovated in 2015 with Celebration, and greens with Champion Bermuda.
Hastings and St Leonards GC in East Sussex is another club that closed owing ostensibly to an “extreme decrease in trade”. But members and owners had different views on the closure. Roderick Easdale speaks to a host of different… Expand Are Golf Club Memberships Value For Money? Are Golf Club Memberships Value For Money?
Of course, it’s sad to see any golf club or course cease to exist, but there are positives in the wider golfing scheme. The members of a closed club will, in all likelihood, wish to continue playing golf so will look for another nearby facility to patronise.
There’s no getting around the principal reason for a golf facility closing down – it’s simple economics; supply and demand. If there isn’t sufficient demand for a golfing facility, then it will steadily become unviable to a point where it simply doesn’t make sense for it to remain open.