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“It turned out the club had the least attrition in 20 years, and the interest in membership is at an all-time high.”
This time last year, the outlook for the season was far from rosy. With great March and April weather, courses, clubhouses
and their restaurants and grill rooms were ghost towns. When given the yellow light to re-open, managers were forced to deal with new sanitation rules, increased tee-
time intervals, two-person groups, single- rider carts, and a litany of ever-changing guidelines and state mandates. “We’d get ramped up, then clamped down,” says Applebrook’s McNabb. “We’d be walking on eggshells. Every day seemed like a new way of doing things, and no one saw any of this coming.”
Like most clubs in the First State, Baywood Greens was under slightly
different guidelines than its Pennsylvania counterparts. “We lost all our critical April/May spring-getaway bookings— probably 2,000 rounds—because people couldn’t travel and we had to enforce no out-of-state play when we did resume,” says Hollerback.
At Back Creek Golf Club, Horton was used to planning for bad weather and worst-case scenarios. “But this was a whole
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