Due to a current health issue and the high heat all summer, I have been limited to playing golf about twice a month and only in the mornings when it is cool. In past years, my wife and I formerly played around 50-55 rounds a year each. We have been resident members here for 24 years.
Last Monday, I had made a tee time for my wife and I at Dogwood for Sunday morning at 8:33 -- a twosome. This works better for us right now and hopefully will be only for a short time.
In the golf update that I received this morning (Saturday), the article on the so-called "Pair up Policy," twosome tee times will not be allowed during busier days and times. So I called the clubhouse this morning and was told I would not be allowed to play as a twosome Sunday but would be given time to play in the afternoon -- in 90-plus-degree heat. That won't work for me, so I had to cancel my tee time. The POA just lost $82 from me alone.
The supervisor at Dogwood said it was just assuring the maximum dollars for golf by this policy. My comment was that the POA was already allowing non-members to play our courses to run up income and the rare few of us that have a special need to play a twosome would not make that much difference in income anyway. That didn't fly.
The POA can do this to long-time members to make a few dollars? If it is that tight on money, why are we planning a multi-million dollar facility to replace Riordan Hall on top of having rebuilt nearly every facility in BV and thereby using up all the reserve money?
I have never figured where the money came from to do all these rejuvenation plans without the last assessment increase. They said at that time they had to have the increase to do them in the first place. I guess that is where the reserve funds went.
I hope the board is happy with the current management team. I predict the POA will be going down the sewer financially any time now.
Jay Soule
BVA
Editorial on 08/15/2018