Lester:
I am surprised by your comments about CSX. Their senior marketing folks certainly are golfers and always seemed quite proud of the Greenbrier, including the Old White. Around the time you did your work the course was closed for a few days, but they even made a point of opening the course just for me to play because they knew of my interest in golf architecture.
As for the sale of the resort, CSX was under a lot of pressure from a shareholder group that didn't believe money should be tied up in a golf resort. My impression was that killed senior management's willingness to hang on to the place.
CSX spends a lot of time hosting customers at the Masters and they do a great job, but in my experience as a customer they also loved entertaining at the Greenbrier.