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Confessions of a Golf Pro Round 2: Desperately Seeking Green Fees

Confessions of a Golf Pro Round 2 takes up the story where book one ends as our hero leaves his private club to manage a daily fee course in Orlando, there he finds the course a total disaster, the employees mutinous and the competition fierce.No one would be dumb enough to buy a daily fee golf course in the land of the mouse, would they?Well, no one but an avid golfer who was also a doctor, a lawyer or airline pilot. Professions where they get to play god in everyday life and think that the superpowers they possess naturally transfer to running a golf course better than the last group, comprised of two doctors, a lawyer, and a vet who ran the club into the ground before them. The only golf market as tough as the Orlando market may be Kabul. In the last ten years, the average price of green fees in Orlando has dropped around 50%, the cost of running a course has increased by 30%, and the number of players has fallen by 15%. Not exactly a winning combination on paper, is it? Oh, and there are two hundred other courses in the market. No one wants to play in the summer, so you lose four months of income because it’s hotter than hell and certainly far more humid.Read more

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