Rockaway Hunting Club – One of the Oldest Country Clubs in the Nation Builds Its First Swimming Pool!
For 146 years the club at its seaside location had water everywhere, but few places to swim. No longer!
Why Master Planning Must Precede Any Actual Club Improvement Programs
There is little thought of master planning for the entire club. The classic mistake for clubs in expanding and adding both indoor and outdoor dining capacity and doing nothing for the kitchen.
Club Opportunities For Facility Master Planning in a Recessionary Economy
The financial geniuses in Washington have done it again. Having overfunded the economy to save it, they now have to underfund it to deflate it. I think this means deflation and recession. Of course, we in the club world benefited from all the government largesse, so we can’t cry in our soup when they raiseinterest…
Planning Strategically to Address Club Facility Needs From Expanding Memberships
The challenge is to not just expand facilities, but to do so with strategic objectives in mind, so the facilities serve to achieve a club’s mission of driving high member satisfaction.
Why so Many Country Clubs are Undertaking Massive Capital-Improvement Projects – Golf Digest
There’s beach volleyball, a soccer field, basketball courts, batting cages, tennis (obviously), pickleball, bocce, a pool with a “splash zone” for kids, a pool with an island in the middle, and two lap pools so that you can swim without interruption while listening to music through the underwater speakers…
A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing – Start Planning the Effective Way
Today we live in a world of “snippits”, where bits of limited information guide our behavior. But when it comes to very important complex strategic issues, the “snippit” approach isn’t effective.
Successful Club Master Planning Must Start with Board and Membership Consensus Building
A Club’s master plan for its facility future should not just be a wish list for every committee in a Club. It must have direction and purpose. It must be guided by the Board, membership and the General Manager.
Timely Conceptual Facility Planning and Budgeting
As club after club is studying its facility needs for establishing future budgets, McMahon Group has been asked over and over again to help provide a range of magnitude cost for club and community projects of all types and sizes
The Hidden Link Between a Strong Membership and Club Facilities
Members join country clubs for many reasons, but when asked in membership surveys as to which club offerings are most important, three offerings stand out: Golf, Dining and Clubhouse.
Strategically Planning Club Facilities – There is no substitute for it!
For clubs to get the maximum value out of the millions of dollars spent on facility improvement projects, they must have a strategic plan guiding them.