I recognise you haven't played many courses, especially courses considered highly, but even given your limited experience how can you describe Ruislip as "a nice layout "? What course is worse than Ruislip?
Story I heard is that they had a loan from a bank and were struggling to keep up repayments so the debt got sold on to a "less understanding" outfit who have called it in.
Sounds about right - a mate of mine is in the market for a conference venue and looked at this briefly - the legal pack suggests the club breaks even and a bit more, but no trees are being torn up, and there is only 40 years left on a lease from the council.
