larmen
Head Pro
As a vanity project it might be sustainable? Use the interest of the remainder to prob up the cash flow.
175 million - what outrageously expensive golf item you're buying?
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Ethan
Money List Winner
Nothing to do with you, but anybody who wins £175 million in the lottery and pitches up at Sunningdale will be so regarded.
Britishshooting
Club Champion
I’d have zero interest in running a golf club, more bitching goes on it wouldn’t be worth the hassle to me. I’d invest heavily into my golf club though and use that money as the voice of the members so they get improvements they are after. I’d then pay my friends a salary that their wife’s wouldn’t allow them to refuse to travel the world playing a bucket list course a month so there away For no more than a week at a time. Saves their marriage and we can share the experience and stories with each other.
No interest in gold Honma clubs or other pretentious crap. I have all the golf gear I desire and nothing I’d want to switch out I replace everything almost every year anyway.
The main focus though...
Build a state of the art driving range with all the super hi tech gear going and tie this into a golf talent management company. I have good friends that I feel could have made it on lower level tours but it was too much risk financially for them to take. I’d love to give others the chance to live out their dreams, have a support structure in place to make it financially viable with the best coaches on hand to help see it through. Would have to do a lot of scouting etc but I’d get so much enjoyment out of giving people the opportunity they otherwise most likely couldn’t justify. This would extend to younger golfing enthusiasts to get them the coaching their parents may not be able to afford, equipment and fun experiences to keep them engaged.
No interest in gold Honma clubs or other pretentious crap. I have all the golf gear I desire and nothing I’d want to switch out I replace everything almost every year anyway.
The main focus though...
Build a state of the art driving range with all the super hi tech gear going and tie this into a golf talent management company. I have good friends that I feel could have made it on lower level tours but it was too much risk financially for them to take. I’d love to give others the chance to live out their dreams, have a support structure in place to make it financially viable with the best coaches on hand to help see it through. Would have to do a lot of scouting etc but I’d get so much enjoyment out of giving people the opportunity they otherwise most likely couldn’t justify. This would extend to younger golfing enthusiasts to get them the coaching their parents may not be able to afford, equipment and fun experiences to keep them engaged.
chrisd
Major Champion
With all the trees down the middle of the fairway and the right and left rough cut tight ??
That’s you banned!
i would not run it as a golf course it would be my playground, convert the clubhouse in my home...
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
I would buy Southern Dunes GC in Florida.
Retire there.
Let the youngsters play free , but adults invite only.
Retire there.
Let the youngsters play free , but adults invite only.
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
I think with £175m and the interest that would be generating it is a risk worth taking to buy a golf course and run it. Hardly going to drain the whole lot and always the option to sell on at some point
It’s the drugs and hookers that eat into your fortune!
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
And the divorce to HID once she finds out about the hookers
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
Robster59
Tour Rookie
I wouldn't buy my club but would make a substantial contribution to it (in return for lifetime membership).
Buy a house near enough to the course to walk to it and another one in earnest climes on a golf course so my missus can enjoy the warmth.
Buy a house near enough to the course to walk to it and another one in earnest climes on a golf course so my missus can enjoy the warmth.
Robster59
Tour Rookie
That's up to you I guess, but I was born nearby, had a house a few miles away and have a relative who's a member at Wentworth and have played the course with him several times, it's awesome.. I think I'd enjoy it as one of the courses I'd join if I'd dropped the jackpot.
The trouble is that if you feel you won't fit in at a fabulous course then you might as well carry on playing at your local muni.
richart
Major Champion
There goes your invitation to Blackmoor.A heathland golf course, shut it down, turf out all the members, turn the clubhouse into my house and have the course as my back garden
I would buy membership at Finca Cortesin.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
Damn!! It was not me.
Curls
Journeyman Pro
I like the idea of a caddy, travelling first class with me to all the top courses in the world.
I have a short list. Some of them may not know what golf is. You can’t have it all.
I have a short list. Some of them may not know what golf is. You can’t have it all.
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Guest
Nice place. Unfortunately my inlaws have just sold their villa there.
Slime
Tour Winner
I'd buy Monte Mayor and restore it to it's former glory.
My other house would be at Cape Kidnappers in NZ.
Oh, and lots of cars!
My other house would be at Cape Kidnappers in NZ.
Oh, and lots of cars!
Great shout. My favourite course.