Typhoon The owner is the one who calls the shots so there is only so much he can do. He’ll want the tee boxes fixed but won’t let him close the boxes and use temporary tees.
That is a common source of frustration with Supers at pay as you go courses , for as you say making money is the primary driver for the owner. Our Super and owner don't always see eye to eye. Super would like to start tee times at 7am so as to have more time to get ahead of the players in the morning., but owner wants tee times to start between 530 and 6 am . That extra hour , hour and a half translates to $2500-$3500 a day so can understand his reasoning. Super's staff have to start cutting grass at 4am and often have stop and wait for golfers to go through or are hit into with reckless abandon .....it's an ongoing source of conflict
Our Super came from one of the more upscale and exclusive private tracks there is up here with $150k entry etc so he had it much different. They had unlimited budget and only put through maybe 50-100 golfers a day versus our 250-300 a day. I recall when we had a huge storm go through 5-6 years back and trees were down everywhere, he was allowed to go out and buy 25 new chainsaws and hire whoever he could to clean it up asap. We plodded along with out existing staff and 2 chainsaws and it took weeks to clean it all up.
Lots of courses in this neck of the woods and so Competition is pretty fierce and as such image matters a lot and course conditions are the most, or one of the most important factors in what brings people in.
As for allowing outside booze. That's not allowed here as it would violate laws/regulations. Courses can lose their liquor Licence. When I marshalled , it was one of my responsibilities to monitor this and had to confiscate booze all the time and as a starter we have to ask and check coolers and bags if suspicious. The upside is that we don't have to deal with drunks hacking up the course and being idiots , at least not often.
