Charlie, I don't think you are quite getting it...
Let's put it another way. The 1st owner builds a course for $10 million, and for argument sakes, borrows the entire amount. Let's also say, in order to pay that money back, he needs to make $1 million/year (for this argument I am going to ignore the maintenance cost). He figures there are about 1000 golfers in the area who will play about 10 rounds a year at $100/round. It turns out that those 1000 golfers can only afford to play only 3 rounds at $100/round a year. He only generates $300k/year and he gets foreclosed.
The 2nd owner buys the course for $6 million. He thinks if he lowers the price to $80/round, you can get 2000 golfers to play 5 rounds a year and make some profit. However, he finds out that even at $80/round, he can only get 1500 golfers to play 4 rounds a year ($480k revenue) and he gets foreclosed.
The 3rd owner buys the course for $4 million and gets to keep it because the course already generates enough revenue to cover the mortgage.
You are not necessarily buying someone else's problem if you buy the course that already generates enough revenue to cover the maintenance cost and the mortgage. The first 2 owners couldn't because they spent too much money building the course or improving the course, but if you can buy it so that you are cash flow positive, there are plenty of people who would be happy to buy that "someone else's problem".