How to run clubhouse renovation communication as a retention job: the vote, the assessment letter, construction disruption and reopening, in sequence.
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Form 990 Part VII data on 4,120 club staff at 1,062 clubs: the median general manager reported $236,299, and pay at $20M-plus clubs runs 3.5 times the under-$5M median.
November runs three calendars at once: the 60 days after the dues letter, the Thanksgiving-to-December event season and the year-end membership close. A dated week-by-week plan, with six club examples.
Equestrian programs are a rare amenity at private clubs. See the growth in the sport, what members want, and how clubs can use horses to build membership.
Stephen Ross, Michael Jordan, Jim Crane, Bill Foley and other team owners have built or bought private golf clubs. Here is what they own, why they do it, and what club leaders can learn.
1,447 member-owned clubs added $7.66 billion in assets between fiscal 2019 and 2024. Net assets, not liabilities, carried most of it. What the filings show, and what boards should take into 2027.
Most clubhouse carpet cannot tell you where it came from. Five questions to put to any supplier before you specify, with one New Zealand wool maker as the worked example.
Florida’s ten highest-revenue member-owned clubs, ranked from their own Form 990 filings. Boca West leads at $95.1 million, and the top ten grew 60 percent from fiscal 2019 to 2024.
Form 990 filings from 1,382 clubs show expenses up 38.1% since 2019. Revenue kept pace, but costs outgrew revenue at nearly half of clubs last year.
Private clubs run on two ledgers: dues carry daily operations, while initiation fees and assessments fund buildings and courses. Here is how each revenue stream works, with sourced industry data and examples from Boca West, Jacksonville Golf & Country Club, Carolina Golf Club, and The Club at Forest Ridge.