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Choosing Carpet for a Clubhouse Renovation: 5 Questions to Ask Before You Specify

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.

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Top 10 Private Clubs by Revenue in Florida

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.

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How Do Private Clubs Make Money? The Revenue Model Explained

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.

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Instagram Collab Posts for Reciprocal Private Clubs

Instagram Collab posts let reciprocal private clubs share one post, one set of comments and two audiences. What the data shows, how to choose a partner of similar size, and five formats that work.

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How to Join a Private Club When You Don’t Know Any Members

Most private clubs are proposer-required, not invitation-only, and many will help you meet members even if you know no one. Here is how the process works and how to approach it.

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The Harvest Dinner Playbook: How Clubs Turn Crush Season Into Their Best Wine-Club Quarter

Crush season is a six-week window most clubs waste on a single generic wine dinner. Here’s the four-event playbook — kickoff, harvest dinner, allocation night, and a Wine Experience watch party — that Bay Harbor, Bellevue, Clearwater, Sonoma Golf Club, and City Club of Baton Rouge are already running to turn fall into their best wine-club quarter.

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The Club Without Members: What Austin Sports Club Borrowed From Private Clubs

Kevin Durant, Rich Kleiman and Joe Gebbia open a 4,723-square-foot room on East Third Street on September 10 and call it a club. The word is doing real work — and it is aimed squarely at the discretionary social spend private clubs assume is already theirs.

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Laver Cup Rules: The Team-Format Mixer That Closes Your Fall League With a Waitlist

The Laver Cup’s escalating-points scoring solves the exact problem that kills most fall tennis leagues: matches that stop mattering by week six. Here’s how to run a capped, team-format finale on Laver Cup rules — and why the waitlist you generate matters more than the event itself.

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What Gstaad Told Us: The Longevity Investment Trends Heading for Your Club Spa

The Longevity Investors Conference in Gstaad puts real capital behind the trends your members already chase at hotel spas and standalone clinics. Here’s what the money signals for your club — and which clubs are already acting on it.

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Who Actually Runs America’s Private Clubs: A 2,272-Club Analysis of Board Filings

Private club membership rosters are secret, but board filings are not. We read the Form 990 of every club that files one — 2,272 clubs, 30,996 names — to find out who actually governs American private clubs.