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The Pellucid Perspective - June 2013

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:54:56 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - June 2013
- Contents
- Golf ’s Consumer “Leaky Bucket” Challenge
- So you want to buy a golf course?
- Are you on the clock?
- IRI, R.I.P.
- May golf weather impact: Down, but pace of decline slowed
- In theory, operators sing “I Love LA”
- ClubCorp buys Oak Tree CC in Oklahoma
- Shock waves from the home of the Magic Kingdom

The Pellucid Perspective - May 2013

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:20:23 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - May 2013
- Contents
- The battle for the soul of golf
- Is it time for nine?
- Who’s that knocking at your door?
- Dire participation projections inspire “Tour Test” concept
- Familiar faces in new golf industry places
- April golf weather impact: Not as bad as March, but off double digits
- San Diego: America’s healthiest golf market?
- Escalante Golf to buy 4 Houston area clubs
- The big Why-Me-jian

The Pellucid Perspective - April 2013

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:12:01 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - April 2013
- Contents
- Phoenix shifts municipal golf to General Fund subsidy
- Filling the junior golf gap
- One shot at a time
- Plumbing the depths of the on-course restroom issue
- Online golf store a solution for pro shop sales?
- March golf weather impact: Hibernation mode for golf nationally
- Military spending cuts threaten VA golf market
- First phase of golf resort with Kidd-designed course in Oroville, CA up for approval
- Nice guys finish last ... in Tax Court

Pellucid Perspective - March 2013

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:43:17 -0400

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- Pellucid Perspective - March 2013
- Contents
- 3rd party management barriers falling at private clubs?
- A need for technology restraint in golf
- Course lures golf ’s missing generation
- Picking the ‘low-hanging fruit’
- February weather golf impact: No surprise...down
- Portland golf has slight edge on Nike neighbor
- Court approves sale of Paulson-owned resorts to Government of Singapore fund
- Readers respond to ‘part-time golf ’
- Casey at the bat

The Pellucid Perspective - February 2013

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:46:39 -0500

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- The Pellucid Perspective - February 2013
- Contents
- Part-time golf courses: A concept worth trying?
- Bankruptcy courts protect course revenues from lenders
- Show notes from 35,000 feet
- Volunteers may not be free
- January golf weather impact: Down...but not unexpected
- Golfers not goin’ to Kansas City
- Movie time: License required
- Concert Golf Partners buys CC at Woodmore in D.C. Area
- Bishop’s tenure as PGA President promises deep breaths of fresh air

The Pellucid Perspective - January 2013

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:32:28 -0500

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- The Pellucid Perspective - January 2013
- Contents
- A Pellucid Preview of the 2012 State of the Industry
- Boom times for golf course brokers
- Show time: Happy days are here again?
- Sharp Park wins
- Private owner launches another attack on municipal course tax exemptions
- December golf weather impact: 2012 a year for the record books!
- Goofy had company in Orlando course developers
- Dallas negotiating for construction of new championship course
- “Customer co-production” worth looking into for golf

The Pellucid Perspective - December 2012

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:40:14 -0500

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- The Pellucid Perspective - December 2012
- Contents
- Current industry issues a target-rich environment
- Second time is the charm for Escena
- Accelerating Supply/Demand Equilibrium: What Can We Learn From Other Industries?
- Private club wins big with The Ultimate Skybox
- Let’s make tee times like it’s 1999
- November golf weather impact: ‘Tis the season of giving (back)
- Columbus puts “premium” on golf, but is the price too low?
- Esping’s EFO Financial acquires Colorado Brightwater Club
- Anchors (rule) away!

The Pellucid Perspective - November 2012

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:48:34 -0500

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- The Pellucid Perspective - November 2012
- Table of Contents
- Are you missing your calling?
- A tale of two cities
- Debit or credit? Save either way
- Tucson municipal courses at risk
- Economy, discounting pressure challenge Tucson market
- October golf weather impact: Giving back some of our season gains
- TopGolf proposal for takeover of El Segundo range operation encounters opposition
- 4 more years – wither goeth golf?

The Pellucid Perspective - October 2012

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:25:38 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - October 2012
- Contents
- Pacific Links – golf ’s new kid on the block
- Which markets will recover first? A guide to supply absorption patterns
- Moving forward, in different directions
- Don’t sign away your web domain
- September golf weather impact: Stayin’ alive
- Growing Nashville market holding its own
- Cordillera to be sold by year-end according to mediation decision
- Trick or treat!

The Pellucid Perspective - September 2012

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:38:27 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - September 2012
- New golf industry financing sources emerge
- How is your course really doing?
- Industry finally warming to SNAG Golf
- Sometimes figures lie, and liars figure
- Course construction work showing some signs of life
- August golf weather impact: Another winner
- Chesapeake area courses hanging on by a claw
- Phoenix considers options for municipal courses, including closure
- FedEx Championship is confusing, but Rory isn’t

The Pellucid Perspective - August 2012

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:33:30 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - August 2012
- Contents
- Private clubs: A time for change
- Mobile-optimize or die
- Rare fiscal sanity: No new golf
- A kinder, gentler approach to speeding pace of play
- Golf July weather impact: Up slightly but hot!
- Sacramento golf (somewhat) better off than California finances
- O’Meara pleads guilty in Running Horse wire fraud, money laundering case
- The not-so-terrible 2s

The Pellucid Perspective - July 2012

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:17:40 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - July 2012
- Contents
- More golfers say “good-bye” in 2011
- A victory for municipal golf
- Golf ’s new frontiers in faraway places
- A range of possibilities
- Weather impact, flat June closes out spectacular 1st half
- Steel City or Iron City, Pittsburgh is a hard golf market
- Lowe Enterprises joins Suncadia Resort ownership group
- The First Tee: It’s not all about golf

The Pellucid Perspective - June 2012

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:45:58 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - June 2012
- Contents
- EZLinks sues ex-employee, GolfNow for $100 Million
- MetLife, Daniel Corp. unveil Reynolds Plantation plans
- Chip Brewer’s Callaway Legacy off to rough start
- CNL adds Fore Golf Partners to manage EAGLE lease portfolio
- Brown fields turning varied shades of green
- May weather impact: 5 for 5, streak continues!
- Golf business brewing steadily in St. Louis
- Netherlands group buys Orlando’s Grand Cypress Resort
- Casey at the bat, for at least 2 days

The Pellucid Perspective - May 2012

Wed, 16 May 2012 12:42:25 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - May 2012
- Table of Contents
- New wave of third-party tee time providers surfacing
- The Great Contrarian
- Endangered species on your course? En garde!
- Pace yourself!
- Major golf communities changing hands
- April weather impact: Yeah baby!
- Petroleum industry keeping Houston golf up to speed
- KemperSports launches new private club division
- Tough times lead Tucson muni’s to consider privatization
- Hits and misses for Get Golf Ready special on CBS

The Pellucid Perspective - April 2012

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:22:29 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - April 2012
- Contents
- Golf associations seeking new ways to stem membership decline
- Are you the master of your domain?
- Military base redevelopment puts golf in limbo
- iPad + cloud = simpler, cheaper golf operating system?
- March weather impact: Nature’s baffling benevolence continues!
- Fore, right! Who’s to blame?
- Detroit market holding its own
- Course purchase opportunities abounding on Florida’s ‘First Coast’
- An uncluttered mind yields Masterful performance

The Pellucid Perspective - March 2012

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:31:26 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - March 2012
- Contents
- New twists in Cincinnati muni course taxation situation
- Study cites “Best Practices” to generate more female play
- Chip Brewer chosen to write Chapter V of Callaway Golf
- Knowing your customer and making it work
- Golf Industry Show, CMAA Expo to share San Diego venue in 2013
- February weather impact: The hits just keep coming!
- Cleveland, OH
- Southworth Development acquires Willowbend CC from Reebok head Fireman
- Show me the money

The Pellucid Perspective - February 2012

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:28:41 -0500

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- The Pellucid Perspective - February 2012
- Contents
- PGA/GolfNow deal torpedoed by members’, owners’ reactions
- More core golfers playing less = trouble
- Point-Counterpoint: Alternative Golf
- January weather impact: Golf benefits from an inconvenient truth
- Pro Kids Golf Academy builds on distinguished legacy
- The phantom golf ball market
- Tampa, FL
- Forest Preserve still seeking golf course developer
- Golf ’s Clash of the Titans

The Pellucid Perspective - January 2012

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:21:36 -0500

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- The Pellucid Perspective - January 2012
- Contents
- Is the strategy change at GolfNow seismic or subtle?
- 2011 a target-rich environment for (most) management companies
- Marketing 101, Pellucid-style
- Great Life Golf growing, adds franchise option
- Show time!
- December weather impact: A Christmas present for the golf industry
- Milwaukee, WI Core Business Statistical Area (CBSA)
- Ahwatukee group acquires Foothills Golf Club
- Golf not “linked-in” to reality?

The Pellucid Perspective - December 2011

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:12:46 -0500

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- The Pellucid Perspective - December 2011
- Municipal owners beware! Landmark ruling due in Ohio
- Are no-shows the hidden assassin?
- Dismissing weather impact: A cunningly clueless concept
- Living in the past
- If you promote it, they may come
- November weather impact: Good month for the Sunbelt
- Philadelphia, PA Core Business Statistical Area (CBSA)
- Surprise, resort developer favors new resort!
- We could use your help

The Pellucid Perspective - November 2011

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:41:34 -0500

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- The Pellucid Perspective
- “Know your customers”: PGA sending members into battle unarmed
- They’re stealing your money
- Does industry health need health?
- Golf seeking keys to tap growing Hispanic market
- October weather impact: No favors from Mother Nature
- San Diego, CA Core Business Statistical Area (CBSA)
- Comings & goings
- Williams’ slur boomerangs in Tiger’s favor

The Pellucid Perspective - October 2011

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:25:33 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - October 2011
- Table of Contents
- When will pricing power return to golf?
- Municipal golf’s identity crisis
- Let’s make a deal
- ‘Winter rounds test drive’ promotion wins Labor Day battle
- September weather impact: Too little too late?
- ‘Brown’ not making Half Moon Bay golfers blue
- Cincinnati, OH Core Business Statistical Area (CBSA)
- Comings & goings
- The “Most Powerful” — really?

The Pellucid Perspective - September 2011

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:30:35 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - September 2011
- Contents
- The China syndrome
- Shift happens: The impact of Hispanic growth on local golf markets
- Promoting rounds at rate card — a novel concept?
- Promoting rounds at rate card — a novel concept?
- There’s golf in them thar’ (sand) hills
- August weather impact, July utilization
- Seattle, WA Core Business Statistical Area (CBSA)
- Seattle, WA Core Business Statistical Area (CBSA)
- The long and the short of it

The Pellucid Perspective - August 2011

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:55:57 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - August 2011
- Contents
- Why cost cutting doesn’t yield long-term prosperity
- Get Golf Ready showing some traction
- Danger, Will Robinson!
- Golf holding up but heartland hammered by weather
- U.S. golf course development dead, or just sleeping?
- Whither the weather
- Miami/Ft Lauderdale, FL Core Business Statistical Area (CBSA)
- Comings & goings
- A few changes of note in August’s dog days

The Pellucid Perspective - July 2011

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:39:01 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - July 2011
- Contents
- The PGA of America hits the restart button on player development
- Permanent tee times, Chicago style
- Positive P.R. leads to course record revenue month
- Exploring the alternative golf universe
- Jun 2011 YtD weather impact, May 2011 YtD utilization
- Life at the top of the market
- Minneapolis, MN Core Business Statistical Area (CBSA)
- Comings & goings
- Musings from the rough

The Pellucid Perspective - June 2011

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:30:19 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - June 2011
- PGA, USGA Back Adams’ ‘Tee It Forward’ Initiative
- The Price Is Right
- Acushnet Transaction—Big Deal?
- Reality Setting in for Course Buyers, Sellers
- May 2011 YtD Weather Impact, Apr 2011 YtD Utilization
- San Francisco/Oakland, CA Core Business Statistical Area (CBSA)
- The Warrior Way
- Comings & Goings
- A Step ‘Forward’ for Golf?

The Pellucid Perspective - May 2011

Mon, 16 May 2011 08:45:55 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - May 2011
- Contents
- Golf 20/11: A House With No Information Foundation?
- Sharp Tools for Cutting Maintenance Costs
- When Is a Survey Not a Survey?
- Short Courses Disappearing, but Some Find Success
- Apr 2011 YtD Weather Impact, Mar 2011 YtD Utilization
- A Weather Word to the Wise
- New York, NY Core Business Statistical Area (CBSA)
- Environmentalists Seeking Closure of Revered SF Muni
- Comings & Goings
- The Bad, the Good and the Ugly

The Pellucid Perspective - April 2011

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:53:45 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective
- Contents
- Cover Your Asset
- NGCOA Ponders Becoming Southwest Airlines?
- Is E-Mail Dead?
- Foreclosures Opening New Avenues for Managers
- Mar 2011 YtD Weather Impact, Feb 2011 YtD Utilization
- An App a Day Takes Your Money Away
- Comings & Goings
- Golf Deals to Forget
- Phoenix, AZ Core Business Statistical Area (CBSA)
- Can’t Sell Your Home? Call Tullymore Resort

The Pellucid Perspective - March 2011

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:04:49 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - March 2011
- Contents
- A Look Back at 2010, a Fitting End to a Fitful Decade
- Courses Can Take Environmental Credits to the Bank
- Feb 2011 Ytd Weather Impact, Jan 2011 YTD Utilization
- Can Alternative Golf Change Golf ’s Fortunes?
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
- Comings & Goings
- Boston, Ma Core Business Statistical Area (Cbsa)
- The State of the Game – Really?

The Pellucid Perspective - February 2011

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:44:45 -0500

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- The Pellucid Perspective - February 2011
- Contents
- Is Groupon Good for Golf: The Sequel
- Solving the Professional Payment Predicament
- Jan 2011 YtD Weather Impact, Dec 2010 YtD Utilization
- Reynolds Plantation Courses on the Market
- Atlanta, GA Core Business Statistical Area (CBSA)
- Alternative Golf? Or an Affirmation of How Many of Us Play Already?
- Custom Clubfitting in 2011: A Solution but Not a Cure
- Pap-Agony for Phoenix Muni
- Show Time - Again

The Pellucid Perspective - January 2011

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:46:43 -0500

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- The Pellucid Perspective - January 2011
- Contents
- Municipal Courses Face Major Property Tax Challenge
- Dec YtD Weather Impact, Nov YtD Utilization
- 2011 Equipment News Highlighted by Acushnet Fate
- Is Groupon Good for Golf?
- Symposium Examines Varied Aspects of Affordability in Golf
- Dallas, Tx Core Business Statistical Area (CBSA)
- Yes! Golf the Recession’s Latest Victum
- Year of Change for Golf, for Better or Worse?

The Pellucid Perspective - December 2010

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:39:28 -0500

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- The Pellucid Perspective - December 2010
- Contents
- 3rd Party Tee Time Marketers: According to Some, “missed It by That Much”
- Course Sales Pace Showing Signs of Increasing
- Nov YtD Weather Impact Oct YtD Utilization
- The Lonely Golfer Phenomenon
- A Formula That Fits
- Meadowbrook Golf on the Way Back?
- Raffles a Risky Gamble
- Denver, CO DMA
- Dear Golf Industry Santa

The Pellucid Perspective - November 2010

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:54:09 -0500

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- The Pellucid Perspective - November 2010
- Contents
- Examining the Third Party Tee Time Marketing Issue
- A Primer on Third Party Tee Time Marketers
- Some Cities Willing to Buck Declining Golf Trend
- Feel Golf Head Defies New Wedge Rules
- Washington DC/Northern VA Profile
- Oct YtD Weather Impact Sep YtD Utilization
- Mixed Financial Results for Q3 and September YtD
- Heard it Through the Grapevine

The Pellucid Perspective - October 2010

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:13:38 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - October 2010
- Contents
- Bringing a Pellucid Perspective to Golf Industry Information
- What's In a Name.... and an Email Address?
- September Weather Impact, August YtD Utilization
- Will the PGA TOUR be Subject to Repricing?
- Alternative Uses for your Golf Course 'Factory'
- Los Angeles Market Profile
- Survey Says... You're Still Employed
- SCGA-PLGA Merger: Sign of the Times?
- Sunshine Laws and Midnight Marketing

The Pellucid Perspective - August 2010

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:18:47 -0400

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- The Pellucid Perspective - August 2010
- Table of Contents
- Why ANOTHER Golf Publication?
- Why ‘Affordable Golf ’ Is In Retreat
- July Weather, Many Markets Beat by the Heat
- Funds Preparing for Course Buys
- Price Is Right for Building
- Chicago Market Profile
- Free Lunch for Harding Park
- Win, Lose or Draw?
- Virtual Golf and Soccer Marketing