Club Industry Brief – Feb. 16
Presented by the National Club Association, Club Industry Brief offers the private club industry’s best news digest of must-read stories, videos and podcasts presented biweekly.
What We’re Reading Now:
Private Club News: 2022 Amenity of the Year Winners: Private Clubs, Golf Inc.
DEI: Golf Industry Outlines 2022 DEI Priorities, Golf Coalition
Membership: Membership Rises at Youngstown Country Club, Business Journal Daily
Trends: NCA Publishes the Winter Issue of Club Trends Outlook 2022 – The Multigenerational Club
Private Club News
- Apawamis Now Winter 2022: From the Archives: Famous Architects, Apawamis News
- Frenchman’s Creek Announces Build of New $74M Clubhouse Project, Peacock+Lewis
- Innovative Club Management Acquires Rose Creek Golf Club, Plans to Take it Private, C+RB
- Are You Interesting Enough to Get Into Jeff Klein’s New Private Club? The Jane Hotel Goes Hollywood, NY Mag
- Around the Nation: Suntree and Fountaingrove Country Clubs Unveil New Clubhouses, Landings Club Debuts Renovated Course, Golf Inc.
- Delaire Country Club Gives In, Claims it Settled COVID Rules Lawsuit, Boca News Now
Trends
- The Great Buffalo Wing Inflation, Axios
- Generational Divide May Reveal Restaurant Trends, National Restaurant Association
- Generational Changes: How New Lifestyles And Preferences Are Challenging Today’s Standards, National Club Association (member-only content)
Workforce
Golf
- Whoosh, Inc. Raises $6M to Modernize Golf Operations, PR Newswire
- Antitrust: Is the PGA Handicapping Competition?, Real Clerk Markets
- National Golf Foundation: Course Closing Rate Continues to Decline, Jacksonville
- Golf Industry Takes the “COVID Bump” and Runs With It, C+RB
- Brandel Chamblee Says Older Generations Should Respect New Golfers’ Culture, Twitter
- Breen Elected President of Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, GCSAA
- A Golf Club ‘Fore’ the Ladies, Twin Cities Business
- Crypto Country Club Signs First PGA Tour Athlete NFT Joel Dahmen, GlobeNewswire
Cast Your Vote in the Latest NCA Poll
We’re extremely proud of the philanthropic efforts clubs make to support their own communities, including staff, children and those in need. Thursday at 2 p.m. club tax and philanthropy experts Kevin Reilly and Larry Absheer will delve into what clubs are doing to help those around them, how they do it, and how they do it under the IRS’ purview. Let Kevin and Larry know what area your club focuses its philanthropic efforts and we’ll include the results in tomorrow’s webcast. Register here.
Amenities
- Video: Giving Curling a Try at Nashua Country Club, WMUR-TV
- Video: Racine Country Club Introduces Ambient Scenting, C+RB
- Club Amenities In 2022, National Club Association (member-only content)
Governance
- GGA Partners 2022 Outlook – Navigating the Year Ahead, GGA Partners
- Club Benchmarking Club Governance Report, Club Benchmarking
- Time To Evolve: Bringing In The Next-Gen Board, National Club Association (member-only content)
NCA News
- NCA Opens Registration to 2022 National Club Conference in Charleston, S.C., May 15-17
- NCA Releases 2021 Annual Report
- NCA Publishes the Winter Issue of Club Trends 2022 Outlook: The Multigenerational Club
NCA Webcasts
- Register for Club Philanthropy: How Establishing a Foundation Can Encourage Giving Feb. 17 | 2 p.m. ET. Register Here (free to NCA members, $99 for nonmembers)
- Register for Club Trends 2022 Outlook: The Multigenerational Club March 10 | 2 p.m. ET. Register Here (free to the entire club community)