Great Golf Club---no Pool

[Carl Nichols]

Terry-
Do you also have tennis courts?  Do they get used?

[J_ Crisham]

Terry-
Do you also have tennis courts?  Do they get used?

We do not have tennis courts anymore- we have a very nice short game practice area where the courts used to be. Terry is correct re: the usage of our dining - the pool I think gets a fair bit of use on the weekends. There is another club 2 miles away that has a bustling pool and social scene as their members are all neighborhood guys. Their golf course however is pretty mediocre IMO . 

[GLawson]

You ask for a list of great courses without swimming pools.  I'd turn it around and ask for great ones with pools.  I'd think there are very few.

Shoal Creek - pool, little use
Let me ask a related question.  In these current times, I hear of some great clubs that are struggling with attracting young members because they don't have other facilities--pools, tennis courts, etc.  In these economic times, it is often difficult for these young families to join two clubs, so they compromise on the quality of golf in order to support their wife and kids.
True?  A growing issue?

[Mike Hendren]

There's still a pool back home:





I was pulling down $40/week on the lifeguard tower in 1973.  9 holes before work and 9 holes after.  One minute to the first tee.

Bogey

[Dan Herrmann]

No pool at my place. 

[Mark Pritchett]

Aiken Golf Club
Palmetto
Musgrove Mill

Aiken GC removed their pool a few years ago.

I know.  That's why I put them on this list

They should have kept it. 

[Sam Morrow]

Whispering Pines and most on the other sides of respective PONDS

I've seen people swim at WP

[Ryan Hillenbrand]

You ask for a list of great courses without swimming pools.  I'd turn it around and ask for great ones with pools.  I'd think there are very few.
Let me ask a related question.  In these current times, I hear of some great clubs that are struggling with attracting young members because they don't have other facilities--pools, tennis courts, etc.  In these economic times, it is often difficult for these young families to join two clubs, so they compromise on the quality of golf in order to support their wife and kids.
True?  A growing issue?

Jim,    You ask for a list of great courses with pools: Oakmont,  Chicago Golf Club, Milwaukee CC, Myopia, Oakland Hills, Olympia Fields, Medinah, Prairie Dunes, The Olympic Club, Pebble Beach, Inverness, Canterbury, Aronimink, Cherry Hills, Champions, I could keep going. My personal choice is to have a pool- but that is because I have kids who enjoy swimming at Beverly.

Shocked to hear Chicago Golf has a swimming pool. Don't they only have about 150 members? And by my understanding it its not what I'd think as a "family club". But I looked on Google maps and sure enough I saw it!

[Mark Molyneux]

Winged Foot, Atlantic City, and I doubt that Augusta has one. If they do have one, I wonder if they dye the water blue.

[Andrew Buck]

Winged Foot, Atlantic City, and I doubt that Augusta has one. If they do have one, I wonder if they dye the water blue.

Winged Foot has one, or at least it's aerial shows one next to the clubhouse.

[Steve Lang]

   There's a story about Champions not having a pool until Jackie Burke Jr. needed a fire water supply for the clubhouse insurance approval...

[Anthony_Nysse]

No pool at Pine Tree.

[Chris Cupit]

Rivermont 


We actually sold our Jr. Olympic pool and diving board and tennis area (eight courts, tennis pros, clay courts) back in 2006.  Lucked out and sold to a developer before the crash.  Part of the deal meant that in addition to getting money to help pay for our course renovation, the developer agreed to build, own, operate and maintain a pool and two tennis courts.  My golf members have access at no cost to the pool and courts for free and the club does not have to pay for their use either.


Best of both worlds.  Granted we do not have swim or dive teams anymore or a tennis "program" but my golf members have a pool to go to if they wish and some courts to hit around on too.  Both are very under utilized.


One of our best decisions ever--we concentrated on being a golf club with good social events and nice food and let the other clubs focus on the "country club lifestyle"  When the great recession hit, we were small enough and focused enough to survive.  I still believe golf is just fine, it is the country club industry that is a train wreck.