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Golf & Country Club Development
Golf and country club development consulting — course design advisory, clubhouse planning, and membership marketing. $500M+ in club projects advised.
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Golf Club Drone Photography
Drone and aerial photography for private golf clubs — hole-by-hole libraries, FAA Part 107, member privacy, scout days, and budgets.
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Golf Club Membership Marketing
Strategic golf club membership programs to attract qualified prospects, accelerate sales, and reduce attrition — for private and semi-private clubs.
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Club Development & Renovation
Expert club development and renovation consulting for private clubs. $500M+ in projects advised across golf, social & wellness clubs.
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Membership Growth & Sales
Is a Private Club Membership Worth It? An Honest Way to Decide
Whether a private club is worth it depends on usage, life stage, and fit; here is a cost-per-use framework and a trial checklist to decide.
October 11, 2026
Membership Growth & Sales
How Private Club Reciprocal Privileges Actually Work (and How to Use Them Well)
How reciprocal privileges at private clubs work, what you can use, the etiquette that keeps the door open, and why club leaders should treat them as a sales and retention lever.
October 11, 2026
Membership Growth & Sales
How Much Does a Country Club Membership Really Cost? (And the Under-40 Option Most Clubs Don’t Advertise)
What a country club membership really costs: initiation, dues, minimums, assessments, and the under-40 tier most clubs don’t advertise.
October 11, 2026
News & Trends
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Industry News & Trends
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
October 14, 2026
Industry News & Trends
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
October 12, 2026
Industry News & Trends
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 fo
October 11, 2026
Industry News & Trends
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.
October 11, 2026
PCM News
Are Private Clubs Booming? What the 2026 Numbers Say
Private clubs are still booming in 2026, but the peak has passed. NGCOA data shows 58% of private clubs grew membership, while GGA Partners finds waitlists have stopped lengthening
October 5, 2026
Industry News & Trends
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 Experienc
September 30, 2026
Industry News & Trends
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 squar
September 28, 2026
PCM News
Your October Playbook: Budget Approval, the Dues Letter and the 90-Day Close
October decides next year’s budget, this fall’s dues letter, and whether Q4 closes with momentum. Here’s how to run all three calendars at once, with real examples from clubs that
September 28, 2026
Industry News & Trends
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-fo
September 25, 2026
Industry News & Trends
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
September 24, 2026
PCM News
Before Fall Pricing Kicks In: Ikon, Epic and the Mountain Club Value Argument
As Ikon and Epic fall pricing approaches, prospects are already comparing mega-pass access against what a private ski club membership cost actually buys. From Palisades Tahoe’s new
September 23, 2026
Industry News & Trends
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 gove
September 22, 2026
Industry News & Trends
Rolling Stone: Private Clubs Are Turning Live Music Into a Membership Perk
Rolling Stone looks at how private clubs are booking arena-level artists into rooms of a few hundred people. PCM founder Zack Bates weighs in. Here’s what it means for your club.
September 22, 2026
Industry News & Trends
The Presidents Cup at Medinah: What It Takes to Host a Team Championship Without Losing Your Members
Medinah opens Presidents Cup 2026 week on Course No. 3, but the real test isn’t the turf — it’s whether members still feel like the club is theirs. Here’s how Medinah, Bellerive, Q
September 22, 2026
Industry News & Trends
What the September Fed Decision Means for Club Capital Plans, Assessments and Dues Financing
The FOMC’s September 15–16 decision lands in the middle of club budget season, right as CMAA’s Leadership/Legislative Conference convenes in Detroit. Here’s how boards should read
September 21, 2026
Industry News & Trends
Revival Weekend: Why Driving Clubs Are Adding Heritage Programming (and What Goodwood Gets Right)
The Goodwood Revival turns nostalgia into six-figure waitlists — and it’s not the only club proving heritage programming pays. From Charlotte’s Ten Tenths Motor Club to a golf cour
September 18, 2026
Industry News & Trends
Keeneland September: What the World’s Largest Yearling Sale Says About Your Bloodstock Members
The Keeneland September sale draws 4,635 yearlings and the industry’s biggest names to Lexington every fall — and most clubs let the moment pass their bloodstock members by. Here’s
September 18, 2026
Industry News & Trends
Top 10 Private Clubs by Revenue in California
Ranked from their own IRS Form 990 filings: the ten highest-revenue member-owned clubs in California, who leads by assets, what changed year over year, and who is missing from the
September 16, 2026
Industry News & Trends
Beyond the Berth: The Membership Economics of Private Yacht and Sailing Clubs
How private yacht and sailing clubs turn scarce berths, social members, and a $230B boating economy into durable membership growth.
September 16, 2026
Industry News & Trends
Travis Kelce Golf Handicap: Inside the Tight End’s Course Life
On the par-3 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale — the stadium hole, surrounded by thousands of fans, beer cans stacked to the sky — Travis Kelce stepped to the tee, took a breath, and str
September 16, 2026
Industry News & Trends
The Dues Increase Retention Math: What a 6% Increase Actually Costs You in Members
Before your board approves this year’s number, run the breakeven math: how many members can a dues increase lose before it pays for nothing? Four real clubs show what happens on bo
September 15, 2026
Industry News & Trends
Where the Forbes 400 Belong: The Private Clubs of America’s Richest (2026)
The Forbes 400 could join any club in the country, yet the same short list keeps appearing. Here’s where America’s billionaires hold membership, checked against the 2026 list, and
September 14, 2026
Articles
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Golf
Sports Team Owners Who Own Private Golf Clubs (and What Their Clubs Teach the Rest of Us)
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
October 20, 2026
Social & City Clubs
Opening Night: The Met, Gala Season and How City Clubs Own the Cultural Calendar
The Met’s Opening Night Gala on September 22 kicked off fall gala season nationwide — and city clubs, from the Metropolitan Opera Club to the Duquesne Club, show how to turn that m
September 25, 2026
Social & City Clubs
The NYC Private Club Music Guide
Where New York’s private clubs host live music and DJ nights, what membership costs, and how non-members can get in. Every entry sourced.
September 22, 2026
Golf
A Private Club Just Landed a PGA Tour Stop: What the Biltmore Championship at The Cliffs Means for Club Brand-Building
The Biltmore Championship brings the PGA Tour to a private club for the first time in Asheville in 80 years. Here’s what The Cliffs at Walnut Cove’s moment in the spotlight teaches
September 17, 2026
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