When in doubt, water, and when the turf is in stress, well, then overwater. When there is a problem to be confronted, the answer is always to throw more money at it. So much for imagination. Give me a golf club any day. OK, maybe a basic lunchroom would help, and I must admit to being partial to a Scottish-style reading room for a morning coffee and the newspaper.
Golf clubs keep things simple.
Country clubs make them expensive. It's amazing to me the crazed plans for clubhouse expansion that are undertaken without the slightest hint of a feasibility study to see if the market will sustain use of the new facilities. Yet if the greenkeeper should ask for an extra crew member to hand rake bunkers whose walls are breaking down, there will be three all-night green committee meetings and a general uproar by the esteemed membership, followed by a unanimous motion to table the extravagance until next year, when finances improve. I've seen it many times. Should the superintendent raise a peep of protest he'll risk being fired for showing disrespect for the club's plight.