I recently emailed a new opening golf course again. Last summer I had sent them an email for info and didn't get a reply. My call to the person who returned the latest email was somewhat perplexing. Residential devolopment is on hold (I understand that). He also told me that "There are golfers ten minutes away from here that don't know we're here, and that's the way we want it." Only by him granting me access to the "private" web site, could I see more than one picture of the course. No nonmember play will be allowed (ok, I guess I'll just fork over the cash first), and "Just because someone gives us a check, it doesn't mean we're going to cash it."
Even though it's in a very nice location in the mountains, with today's economy it seems crazy to join a course with a marketing plan that is more negatve than positive. Who would want to be the 12th person in, and than potentially get stuck waiting to get your membership back if it failed? If I was the owner, I would want to get the word out so that if things did fare well, we could then be a little more like Cypress Point or others. Does this make sense to you?