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Course conditions and discounts

Thursday April 21, 2005 | 01:00:56 149 words, 1288 views  

With all this talk about course conditions and getting taken for a ride, why don’t courses offer discounts when they stuff a bunch of holes in their greens, making putting virtually impossible?

I played a round today where it looked like my ball was pogo-sticking through an Iraqi mine field on the greens. My greens fees: the same as if I were putting on the good stuff. I’m not going back for at least two weeks, and judging by the wide open course I played on, seems the rest of the town is going elsewhere too.

I’m not a business guy. My idea of bargaining is giving a street merchant 50 bucks and telling him to give me whatever he thinks is “fair". But how about this: offer incentives for players to tough it out on greens by offering a free cart, complimentary beverage, or a come-back-next-time and get 20% off?

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Comment from: Doug Smith [Visitor]
Question? WHAT COURSE!?!?!? We want to know which dumps to avoid ---- that's why I read this site.
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