Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You decide to look for other ways to increase revenues.
Because the membership is already furious about the increase in dues,
you feel you can't charge them any more at this time. After all, you're an
employee of the country club and golf course, and the members are, in essence,
your bosses.
So, you decide not to implement a food assessment fee. Instead, you come
up with a big idea: increasing revenue by making your private golf club a
semi-private club. This means that the public will have access to the course
at designated times.
This is the real-life decision that golf pro Mark Csencsits would make.
"Raising prices or increasing any kind of fees whatsoever is probably not
a wise idea at this point in the general economy," says Csencsits.
Csencsits has been in a similar situation himself. At the first golf course
he worked at, the greens were in trouble. The members were going to be charged
something like $6,000 each to redo the greens, the clubhouse and the restaurant.
The members voted against it. Instead, they made the course a semi-private
course, opening it up to the general public and bringing in income that way.
"So, there are a lot of different options," Csencsits says.