Michael, you don't think you could get the family to join you on the putting course? Beyond the low hanging fruit (degenerate golfers/gamblers) that is a big part of the reason for building such a facility in this location. Putting course then dinner at the club?
Despite our many, many trips to places like Hawaii, where to pass the time I head to Wailea's courses, accompanied by my son, and putt for an hour or so on days I wasn't playing a round of golf. My wife, who plays golf, has never, ever accompanied me. She sits on the beach or by the pool and reads a book.
I don't know where I fit in demographically to your guests - I am a 50 year old lawyer with a +/- 7 handicap and have been playing the game since I was 4; my wife learned the game at 13, but only took it up again about 7 years ago and plays to about a 30 handicap. Importantly, we
never take a vacation to a location that doesn't have golf, and my wife has never brought her clubs. I think she asked me to bring her putter once, so she would come with me to putt around a practice green, and I don't think she came with me.
When she was with me in Bandon, I asked her if she wanted to play, and she declined in the belief that everyone who played would be good (otherwise why would they pay $200/round), and I told her that wouldn't be the case. She walked with me each day, and soon learned the quality of golfers does not correspond to the price of the round. As one of my playing partners started his BD round with three OB right, she said that maybe she would play next time, but she never has come back with me.
There is an all-grass mini-golf place close to a place we have vacationed for 5 or so summers, and I don't know if she has never played. Maybe when our kids were very young - now 17 and 21 - she played. As our kids grew older, I would take my son and our relative's kids and I was ususally the only adult; my daughter came some times and not others.
So, in +/-30 trips to sunny destinations, she has rearely if ever picked-up a club, even a putter. I don't think things would change anytime soon in sunnier climes. She finally did play in Ireland last May when she was there for business, and I tagged along to play golf. She joined me at Portmarnock on our last day, rented clubs, and loved it - despite 50 degrees and blowing 15-20.
I realize that a putting course at Bandon, or at your resort in Cabo, would be infinitely more convenient to play because you wouldn't have to leave the property, but cocktails start at somewhere between 3 and 5 for us when we are on vacation, so eventhough I would have no problem taking a few beers down to the putting course and playing alone or with my son before dinner - that time when you envision someone like her coming to the course - I don't think she would ever join us.
Hope this helps.
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Sounds as though you would enjoy it if she were to join in the golf at some level and thus you would seem to be the exact family/scenario I think we would/will/could attract - Husband golfer and the wife who plays but while on vacation thinks 200 to 350 dolllars for golf is sillly and would waste several hours of prime poolside/beach lounging/reading time.
I think if done well and presented properly we could get you as a family to the putting course... Cocktails start at 4:30 over an 18 hole putting round with the family followed by dinner at the clubhouse. Now when are you booking that trip to Cabo?