I wonder why they did not drill a well for the course instead of having to buy water.
Or why didn't they just raise the green fees to pay for the water?
I never played the course because La Purisima is close by and way better. Also near by is Monarch Dunes.
In some of the other articles discussing the closure, plans to utilize the base's well water were discussed but the cost for the infrastructure upgrade was too high in the near term.
For the time being, the driving range, practice greens and club house will remain open and they will make efforts to maintain some course playability with what little water they have remaining. I don't think there is any great desire to close the course, there simply isn't enough money in the budget to cover the water needed to maintain a legitimate 18 holes. They had stopped watering everything but the tees and greens- and still couldn't manage the water expense.
I was in that region two weeks ago playing at some of the neighboring courses and there were all sorts of wild rumors flying around about what was going to happen there. Hopefully, one of them will come true