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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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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 industry data and examples from Boca West, Jacksonville Golf & Country Club, Carolina Golf Club, and The Club at Forest Ridge.

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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 formats that work.

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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.

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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 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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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 squarely at the discretionary social spend private clubs assume is already theirs.

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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 got the budget, the letter, and the vote right.

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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 governs American private clubs.

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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.

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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 the rate signal, what Sawgrass, Woodbridge, Centre Hills, Devon Yacht Club and Blue Hill are already doing about capital financing, and the three-scenario playbook to have ready before the vote.