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Oct. 25, 2023

292:Board Chats- Pt.2 Board Diversity and Navigating Club Health w/ Jordan Peace & Christian Dunn

Ready to revolutionize your private club operation and boost member engagement? We've got a jam-packed episode lined up, where Christian and I, Jordan, walk you through the intricate world of fiduciary responsibilities, strategic planning, and club transformation. We'll show you how leveraging underutilized spaces can create enticing hot spots that pique interest and enhance member satisfaction. Plus, we'll break down essential performance indicators to keep your club performing at its best and share novel avenues for capital access.

Switching gears, we dig into the juicy topic of maximizing club revenue. Curious about how to keep members coming back? By investing in ancillary amenities and designing unique spaces such as pool bars and indoor-outdoor dining areas, you can boost member retention, satisfaction, and revenue. We emphasize the importance of fostering a conducive environment that makes your club the go-to place for members to unwind and socialize.

As we gaze into the crystal ball, we paint a picture of the future of private club memberships. We discuss the growing trend of clubs investing in outdoor dining amenities and how a staff-led model might be the game-changer you need. Not to be missed, our enlightening chat with Peter Nanula from Concert Golf Partners who shares invaluable insights into the potential benefits of recapitalization. Remember, the path to success is often paved with expert advice, so tune in and arm yourself with fresh knowledge to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of private club operations.

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Transcript
Speaker 1:

Hey everyone, welcome back to part two of Board Chats here on Private Club Radio, brought to you by our friends, concert golf partners. We continue the conversation with Christian and Jordan and in part two we cover the. In part two we cover. In part two we're going to go over the fiduciary responsibilities of board members, the importance of strategic long-term planning and how to transform underutilized club spaces into amazing hot spots that not only attract new members but also retain your current members and it also makes your staff happier. We're very fortunate to have Christian and Jordan as our guests on this episode because they bring a nice, fresh and innovative approach and perspective to our discussion. Because they bring a fresh and innovative perspective to our discussion, we're going to talk about how board members need to understand their fiduciary responsibilities and really think about the long-term health of their club, because they need to be aware of the key performance indicators, the KPIs, like member engagement, club utilization, and also they need to explore different options for the need to explore different options when trying to access capital. We talk about one of the hot topics now, which is how to utilize underused spaces or space. We also talk about a important topic and a hot topic now, which is how to transform underutilized or underperforming spaces, because by upgrading and using these spaces in a much more efficient way, we can take that and offer a really enjoyable experience to the members. That really boosts the member engagement. One of the hot things right now is turning underutilized pools. One of the big things now is taking underutilized pool space and turning it into a really cool hotspot by adding amenities like a tiki bar or furniture, limited menus. There's little things that clubs can do now that really enhance their club space, which brings in more members. We touch on the changing trends in private club memberships and being able to highlight and execute on adapting and catering to a younger membership. So it's all about providing a staff focused environment and creating experiences that exceed expectations and, really summing it all up, it's about providing an environment that is not only member focused but staff focused and creating experiences that exceed their expectations, because that's going to help attract keep members, as well as attract and keep retaining staff. So welcome back to part two. Once again, here's Christian and Jordan. What sort of you know key performance indicators? Some like KPIs that you know are just standard?

Speaker 2:

Time at the club. Are your members spending time there? Right, you can look at your month to month, quarter to quarter, year over year sort of utilization of the club. How many folks on average are at the pool? On the weekend it was a gorgeous 85 degree, sunny day. Why was no one there? You know, are we doing things to attract a member of engagement? Are we providing fun places? You know, are we taking the space that we have and making it engaging and comfortable and inviting for people to spend time there? I think we've always been at a concert very proud of our level of member engagement, because the programming is big, recognizing your. Is it a family oriented club? Is it strictly golf? Is it tennis? And yet we have to realize that we want to include paddle ball or pickable. I mean, are there, what are the opportunities and how are we taking advantage of those opportunities so that people are there and spending time? And to me, that's always going to be a driving force that you can see very easily and it's not necessarily showing up on a spreadsheet, but I would assume that you know, anytime you've got a healthy area, a bar area, a terrace, a pool that has food and bath, you're going to see. You know, kind of the black and white numbers reflect your success in those areas also.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, a way to measure that on a spreadsheet is you know, spend to dues, right, everybody pays a dues amount. How much are they spending every month at the club? And I don't mean that from a revenue or profitability standpoint. It may be a little less important to a board, but it does show engagement and then, at the end of the day, that engagement and then being there is going to help retention. It's going to help them recruit their friends who are members and always have membership there, and that will help your club thrive. And so monitoring am I showing up? Am I walking nine holes and I'm leaving right, or I'm just paying dues? Am I that type of member or am I paying a cart fee? Am I bringing a guest because I want to show off the club or I want to do business there? We're staying, we're having lunch, we're grabbing beers, we're, you know, at the on the weekend I'm bringing friends and we're having food and drinks and we're hitting on the indoor simulator because the weather was bad and you know. Those are the things where you know people are using the club, you know you're going. That's a way to practically monitor exactly what people are doing. You have to pay attention to the good boards are are are putting all the tools in their tool bet. They're talking to people at concert. They're understanding our business model because it could be perfectly successful for their club. There's a lot of boards they just think, oh, we, you know, we would never want to be owned by a corporation, just because that, no reason other than that thought, and because they're a member and they're an equity club and they always go. Well, hold on a while, wouldn't you want to explore? We have capital, we have a model. When you got a Roos Chris, you don't think are they corporately owned, Like? No, you think like I hope that what I pay for this meal is really good. We are a way to access capital or your club a very unique way, and you should understand that as a board member. But so what.

Speaker 1:

What I'm kind of gathering from everything is, you know, the. The key, the success is obviously having a really good board, but I think it's like having board members that you know understand the actual responsibility of what their role is in that position. And it's not personal, it's about the you know the greater good of the whole of just being able to put the ego aside and go hey, I should explore all different options, especially if I don't, you know, even if I don't like it, because then I think it helps when you come to the table you can now go hey, you know, you can, you can explain, I think, the argument better to, because I shouldn't say there's going to be an argument, but there's going to be, there's going to be pushback. But I think when you can understand both sides and get information from both sides, you can then articulate. You know why it's a good thing.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, donnie, you make a couple of great points there. I mean the, the primary responsibilities of the modern day board of a private club. There's a couple, but the fiduciary responsibility is a big one because that's what's going to keep the club tick, him and the membership happy for the long haul. We talked a little bit earlier about the length of time that you're you're kind of responsible for, and it's not a month or a quarter or a year or two at a time. There needs to be a healthy financial plan in place for what does our next five years look like? What does the next 10 years look like? And if you start to chew off bigger segments in that way, you're going to find that 30 and 50 and 100 years should and will be successful. But there's got to be this, this very specific fiduciary responsibility, about responsible spending and and care to potentially assess, depending on whether or not your membership can handle it Some can, some cannot and if that's going to lead to member attrition or if it's going to provide an influx of capital, that'll really help you identify needs. In part of the financial or, or you know, fiduciary responsibility, there's this identifying what's truly important for the longer term again, health of the club and so where you get a new sort of a tough spot as, I think, a board member is that if the ductwork needs to be redone or if the parking lot needs to be repaved or if the roof needs some some updating, those aren't highly visible and fun projects to promote and to apply to allocate capital towards, but those are things that that need to be done. I mean we we talk a lot about deferred maintenance and the amount of money that it requires to maintain clubhouse. That might be 30, 50,000 square feet, let alone the grounds, the property, the golf course, all of it. And so I think one is that fiduciary responsibility. Two is to be purely member driven and responsible and not have an agenda or an ego where you say, hey, I want to redo the greens because all my golf buddies are going to love it and they're all going to buy me a beer at the end of the day because I'll be the popular guy in the clubhouse for for making our greens top notch, you know. So I think, yeah, long term, okay, health comes with the fiduciary and it comes with really listening to your membership and setting your own agenda aside, sort of understanding the body of the membership what it looks like. That also means being able to put down maybe one loud voice that has a high opinion about something that isn't a response, it's not a primary focus for the majority of the membership, and being able to kind of wade through the voices, determine what's really healthy for the club and pursue it. That's a conversation that we have quite a bit in what Jordan and I do, because concert has our model and we've been very successful with it and as a result, we're really fortunate to have 30 thriving clubs, we have happy members and we have beautiful golf courses. And yet we find clubs that we know would benefit tremendously from talking to us maybe aren't willing to just because of the fear of the unknown, or it's just an entity that they don't fully understand, and turn over the keys can be very scary, especially for some of these clubs. I mean the tradition and history of these clubs. They're frequently they're 100 years plus old, so they're just sort of unknowingly not willing to gather information, not willing to have those conversations. And we represent concert golf. Maybe we're a great fit for them, maybe we're not, but there are tools available to the modern day board member. I think it's really important and healthy that they do their own homework, ask those questions and understand what all sort of arrows they have in their quiver and utilize them to the best of their club's needs and wants.

Speaker 3:

And so to that. I mean to summarize, any club that's wondering what? How are we going to pay for X upcoming capital, whether it be just the things that Christian talked about, or you need new irrigation or it's we want to improve the amenities or add amenities, because we know that's going to help us continue the competitive clubs nearby and it'll help with the long term health. Well, how are we going to pay for that? Well, there's multiple ways. You can assess members. You can take on debts. You can partner with somebody, like concert golf, who has the capital and has a business model to do that. Well, if you're a board member and you take that to do, share responsibility seriously we should have a conversation while you're also having conversations regarding some other past. Just because it's the right thing to do for your membership, right, we obviously think we have a great solution, or we wouldn't have done this so many times with so many clubs, and if we didn't, we wouldn't be in business.

Speaker 1:

So, speaking of the capital, capital improvements, from your point of view, working with all these clubs doing renovations, seeing what clubs are doing well, what they're not doing well, talking to all these clubs, what types of capital improvements have shown a really kind of direct correlation with increased membership and happiness and excitement and use of the club amenities?

Speaker 3:

Some of them are super simple. Can you talk about the Ear Club pool bar? And we've done many, many of our clubs. It's just a pretty shocking story.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so my home club, not affiliated with concert, but great place, great golf course. The pool was just underutilized. It's not an Olympic swimming pool with lanes and a swim team, so it's a little smaller than that. But it was nice, it's clean, it's a well-defined space. But it was underutilized for, I think, a few reasons, and the primary one was that there were no amenities to it. There were some chairs, lounges, some chairs, a table or two and that was kind of it. So they did build a very nice Tiki bar. It's got stools, it has flat screens, it has fans. They've got food and beverages out there, so they've got some frozen. My kids love the frozen slushies. They've got ice cream bars out there. They can certainly go in. You've got a limited menu of wraps, sandwiches, all those types of things, so snacks, bev. Of course people are having cocktails by the pool. That's a big part of it. But they upgraded all the furniture. The chairs, lounges and chairs are much nicer, much more comfortable. They put a lot of umbrellas for on the perimeter so there's shade, which I noticed right away was bait with the mounds, with the young children where they could get them into. Throw down a towel on a chaise, throw a couple Barbie dolls down and now you're two-year-old is happily playing in the shade. You're not having to lather them up with sunscreen every five seconds, so I think it's just a more enjoyable experience. The number of families I saw that started to spend a lot of time up there went through the roof and I would tell Jordan, on a Saturday afternoon, beautiful middle of the summer, not competing with a holiday of any sort, you know, fourth of July weekend or anything, there might be 20 bodies up there, total a handful of kids, a handful of primarily moms or, you know, young families. That same scenario on a Saturday after they made these renovations. There's probably 200, 250 people there on that same day Holy cannoli. There was clearly a desire for you know, there was clearly a want for those things and sometimes the membership doesn't always advise you very intelligently. They aren't coming to you and saying, hey, we think if you did X, y and Z, we'd spend more time up at the pool. So you sort of have to understand the utilization of space and, where there's opportunity, and not be afraid to reinvest in the club, because you know that's one great example of a way where the space already exists, the expensive part of the pool is already there and it's fine. If you just sort of add some ancillary amenities to the big one, the pool, I mean you've got five, six, 10 times growth in the amount of people spending time there and of course that translates into people spending money to their buying food, their buying drinks and they're staying there for a longer duration of time and that's easily probably transferable into half a million dollars a year plus in revenue.

Speaker 1:

Just those umbrellas, if you can keep a family there for an extra hour, 90 minutes because their shade and mom can put the toddler down while the kid's playing the pool, dad might order another drink, mom might order. Now it's getting close to dinner. We'll just stay here at the club and you know, dude, you know, have dinner here. Oh, thousands and thousands of dollars a day in revenue.

Speaker 2:

And then can you think of any better model than getting your members to stay and play at the club? I mean, isn't that really what it's all about? You want them to play golf, of course, or tennis or whatever their sort of personal agendas, but a club that has people spending time there is easily the healthiest club. They're using the areas, there's a need for staff, there's a consistency, and when you have that like, for example, the same thing at the pool, we had an amazing service staff there because they knew every day they'd show up and it would be busy and that they could make money, and so the retention of talent at service staff becomes a big component too. Whereas if you have, you know, sort of spotty business in an area and three out of four days your A plus server shows up and can't make any money, they're not really going to be that engaged or want to continue that summer, let alone future summers to come, and that's a big deal. You've got a lot of your service staff who's maybe seasonal and they're not going to come back the following year if they don't see an opportunity there. So it affects a lot more than you'd even really think about.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it's a positive snowball right. That's what I was saying. It's even less about the revenue that you described and more about the engagement which helps with the long-term retention and people staying at the club, and you know. So that's the important base. So we've done that. We just built a few kind of pool bar areas in our North Carolina clubs. We have one where, like if you go on a Sunday afternoon at our club in Fort Myers and you go to the pool bar during the winter, so it's hot down there, it is like it feels like a resort to me. There's TVs everywhere and just people hang out there all day, literally all day Sunday, and it's just because it's where the community is and it's where they want to be. And creating those types of spaces at clubs are becoming more and more important. The younger the membership is as well, the more they want to hang out spaces right. It's like we're doing a lot of building a lot of top tracer ranges where you have technology on the driving range to practice or just have fun with, and typically that comes with being able to order food and sit and hang out with some friends or, at least you know, spend more time at the range. That's what younger generations want. They want the ability to just hang and it be convenient and have a spot to fellowship, as opposed to just getting in a golf cart and going to drive, and so creating those spaces are pretty important.

Speaker 2:

Say one more, denny, because it's such a great question on how to, you know, allocate capital and what you can really, which amenities drive business and drive member engagement. But there's a big influx in this one. It could be controversial because I don't know that the investment is, the return on it is so great, but I think it's just the right thing to do sometimes for the membership experience. We see these indoor, outdoor dining tourists sort of. You know it flows. The reason I know this is how I feel anyways is if you're eating hot food on a hot day and you're sweating, it's not a wonderful experience, and vice versa, if the breeze blows too much and your food's cold two minutes after it arrives, it's also not the best. So it's you know. I know I'm sort of picky about eating outdoors, but everybody loves in the summer months in you know Michigan, where I live, or anywhere that you know you don't get warm weather year round. You want to take advantage of the great outdoors and the fresh air and you want to be exposed to it, but you also, like Jordan said, you'd like a flat screen and a fan so that you can kind of perfectly you know climate control the area be comfortable, enjoy your meal and stuff all the matter conveniences. So we're seeing a lot of interest, and we've done it a few places incredibly successfully, where the indoor outdoor flow whether it's just well placed doors and a lot of glass, or whether they're truly, you know, even garage doors or something that has the ability to completely open up seems to be the most popular place in the clubhouse every time they have one. So I would think that that's a pretty healthy way to, you know, modernize and upgrade amenities for the again the good of the membership.

Speaker 1:

Those outdoor heaters, especially in like the. So I'm up in the north in Pennsylvania Now it's getting like, you know, the cool, the fall. You still want to be outside but still want to be warm and there's those giant outdoor propane heaters and man, you know, keeps people, you know, there it's yeah little things.

Speaker 3:

Post COVID, post COVID. I don't know of a club that doesn't want more outdoor dining, but that less seasonal, so has heat, has air, has doors that go up and down. I mean, that is, you know, our club at Blue Hill. We have a restaurant over the pool, one of our dining area, and it's all garage door sort of mechanisms, so if it's raining or it's freezing cold outside, you close them. You're just in a restaurant that's got walls, like you normally would be. It's nice outside, open up the whole thing, and all of a sudden you're just eating a covered patio. It's pretty cool and some it's an amazing outdoor dining space. Every club wants that right now, every club ours, it doesn't matter. They want more outdoor space, like and sometimes it was cost millions of dollars, but oftentimes it costs millions of dollars but we're building them and we're expanding our dining.

Speaker 1:

Well, I even know with me and my wife and my group of friends, even if we go somewhere and it's cold, or whether it's the winter or it's chilly, and we see those doors down in the back of our heads, we're like, oh, so they have, you know, outdoor, really nice air dining. So now next time, when it's nice out, cool out or whatever, you're like, oh, I would love to sit outside for dinner. It's like, oh, remember, they had the thing the doors are probably open at. You know, yeah, yeah, 100%. So you know all of this it's building up to. You know the future and the future memberships of private clubs. You know what are from your point of view, from your research, from your you know feet to the ground. You know how is it different, similar to. You know prior generations. You know how can people and clubs be proactive and address some of these areas.

Speaker 2:

This is one of our favorite things to talk about. I mean, it is evolving. It's a great question. Danny Jordan, you go ahead please.

Speaker 3:

Again, the younger the membership. My generation, I have young kids, christian has young kids, their little holder than mine. Show up, enjoy the club, enjoy the amenities. We don't think about it until you come again. There's no desire from the younger membership to want to get into the nitty-gritty of managing the club, which I think is different for this generation. I think, if you look, I grew up in the South and, denny, I'd be interested to get your perspective on this right. I grew up in the South where there's a lot of churches, specifically Baptists and Methodist churches, which were always known, like my grandparents generation, to be governed very similarly to the private member-owned country club. You had a board of directors, you had tons of committees, like we've had, you know, clubs were between 26 committees and they hired staff and that's how they were governed. That is becoming a trend that almost doesn't exist anymore in the Southern churches. It's pastor-led churches, right with, you know, maybe a board of advisors right, that has a little bit, you know, to keep the pastor accountable, but it's all about being staff-led because they're doing it every day, they're the experts and they're going to know better than the volunteers and that trend seems to have happened a little bit faster. That same trend is happening in private clubs today, where the younger, the generation they want to show up, pay their dues, feel like they're getting the right value for their hospitality experience and just understand what they're buying. Right? No assessments, like, don't assess me, I don't control what you're going to spend money on, I don't know that you're spending it responsible, so I don't want an assessment. And that's not about wealth, right, it's not about younger having less wealth, it's just about a mentality. And so we're seeing clubs want to become more and more just, very, you know, general manager and staff focused because they're there every day and they're thinking about it. And less boards, less committees. You know, you see these Greens committees who are often made up of dentists and large and very, very smart people and they may, they know what they want from a consumer perspective. So it's very helpful. But you know, the superintendent has a turf degree and you know under and talks to the suppliers all the time and understands fertilizers, probably toward the tour manufacturing facility, really understands grass, and so don't you want to just make sure that the job is to have the best superintendent in place and so that the grass is the best? Or do you want a Greens committee arguing over moving a bunker? I don't know. To me that's where the trends are headed. Show up, enjoy your club and that's where you know we'll. You know concert. We have expertise in each of those areas and that's how we manage it, and we still manage to member satisfaction. If the members are not happy, nothing's going to go well. So we're a hospitality business. You show up at a Ritz Carlton and you expect them to give you a great experience for what you pay, and that's what the younger generation wants out of their club.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, well said and it's at any young family that you speak to. And a lot of the younger members joining do have families that are utilizing the amenities. Their kids are in the golf program, the junior tennis program, they're on the swim team, they're attending Easter brunch and Santa at Christmas time and there's, you know, movies on the green on Friday nights or movies by the pool on Friday nights. So it is a family experience. I think it was always intended to be that way. But we know that a lot of the clubs were the guys. They were guys golf clubs and they were dominated by that agenda and those desires. And I just think that you know, in a healthy way, the younger, more modern mom or dad that's interested in playing golf, but also as a family, it's travel across and it's, you know, travel, baseball and it's all the school engagement. It's just a very. The modern society is very busy and I don't think that people have the same amount of time to dedicate just kind of doing the same thing over and over. And when they do, to Jordan's point, they really want to make their splash. They don't want to have to worry about the price of a cup of soup or you know, being assessed. They just want to show up and enjoy it and return to their families at home. You know, time is so valuable and we see this trend in a lot of things. We see it in the workplace, where people want to work closer to where they live. For advice first they'll move. You know, we see people taking salary cuts potentially to work in an environment and for a company that they think is more conducive to a happy lifestyle. So I think people are hyper aware of how they spend their time and money and I think the more that we understand that and cater to it, the healthier that the club membership is.

Speaker 3:

Some would argue that, oh well, once the younger generation gets older, has more time, you know they're going to want to become more involved, have more people in the office and get together with other board staff and and I could accept that if you're retired you have more time you may want to fill up your time with being on a board. You may care about your club. You've been there for years now. I don't buy into that at all. Just given some of the changes We've talked about, it's not what you see in churches. My parents and I know this is a small kind of anecdotal example, but they're at the age they're retired. If my dad, who's very involved in our church, for example, if he was asked to be on some committee, like I'll show up and serve if you need me somewhere, but I'm not going to be in a committee, and so he's even starting to represent that when his parents were on every board and committee of their church growing up. That you could ever imagine, right? I'm not turning this into a religious you know podcast at all, but it is an example of organizations, right?

Speaker 1:

You know, I'm 34 and I wholeheartedly agree. And you know, I think people were probably all around the same age. Yes, you guys might be a little bit older.

Speaker 2:

You're a little younger than you, as I think 34. That sounds old to me. Hold on or zero, Yo bat All right.

Speaker 1:

I'm telling you, but you know, and then I think, as as we get older, when, when we retire, we have stuff to do Like we want to. We want experiences, we want to hang out with friends like we just want to make sure stuff's taken care of. I don't want to have to deal with more stuff at my club Like I want to do, like I always want to show up and be that. I assume you guys are taking care of everything. The future's looking good. Just keep me posted, keep, keep the stuff good, keep the drinks flowing and we're all going to have a good time and not only that, but I think that you'll find you know the younger and future generations of members of these private clubs.

Speaker 2:

If they don't love the way things are going, they'll just leave. They may not even speak up much about it or give you the opportunity to try and adjust things. It's very much a pay to play. Show up experience, I mean, if nothing less. Just look at the attire on the golf course and how it's changed in the last even 20 years, let alone 50. People want to be comfortable. Athletic brands are into golf attire. People listen to music in the golf carts. They don't want to put on a jacket and slacks and leather shoes to go in and have a meal. They'd mature other, wash their hands, splash some water on the stage, maybe comb their hair, then walk right into a casual or comfortable at least atmosphere where they can get a nice meal and where their kids are welcome and not seen as a new sense, because they're kids, you know.

Speaker 1:

Well, in a lot of the outfits and things we spend money on, like they're more expensive than some pair of slacks and shirts, like some people's belt and shoes is more than you know the guy's suit that he's wearing, you know. So it's you know, I think it's you know. From that point of view too, it's like really Like my jeans are more than your jacket Not. I'm just saying, like, I'm just saying, like you know some people, when it comes to the you know dress codes.

Speaker 3:

Hey, I have a $125 Travis Matthew hoodie. Why?

Speaker 2:

Because I like it and you know they probably made it $36 on the arm.

Speaker 3:

It's got my club name on this on the arm Right. I yeah, it does. It has one of our club names on the arm. I like it. That's exactly right.

Speaker 2:

That's workitatter, and Danny, this is what we talked about.

Speaker 3:

You're right.

Speaker 2:

I mean this is the privilege of working in the great golf space.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, hey, I've got my. Yeah, I've got my Ryder Cup losing team 2023 shirt on today.

Speaker 2:

And we love what we do every day. We're proud to do it for concert and it's a lot of fun. You know we're able to go into clubs and offer solutions to a lot of the issues that they have and it's pretty neat to see it all flesh out and to watch the clubs and the memberships thrive as a result and to be a part of that. You know it's wonderful.

Speaker 1:

I mean it's it's sort of like working for in an amusement park. Like how can you be upset when you know you get people to come in who are excited to be there and you have cool stuff and you know you're just around good, good energy, you know, I would hope and assume and yeah, and Christian and I are, we're like, we appreciate the art and the food.

Speaker 3:

So, like I, we both are elementary school golf course architecture students Like we love. We love how people take a piece of land and understanding who designed what and how they designed it and what their styles are. And so, like, we get to drive around and we think about who designed this and we have some great courses. So we have Jack Nichols signatures and Tom Fonzio courses you know some of the biggest and best names in in golf that have designed our clubs. And like, we get to go see them, we get to talk and gronomy. It's like how you, how you sustain that artwork, you know. And then like the food, like I'm a foodie, I'm a, I'm a once was a foodie, I got Christian years, but you know it, it's fun to see. Like, what are we serving? We're serving local trout at Longview, cause it's North Carolina and it's delicious, and like, so, yeah, we have, we are.

Speaker 1:

Hope you all enjoyed part two. As always, if you are interested in recapitalization, know somebody, or just looking to explore some options, so head on over to concertgolfpartnerscom, set up a confidential call with Peter Nanula and see what options are available. Catch you on the next episode of Board Chats and be sure to check out our previous episodes of Board Chats. Ton of valuable, useful information there. Until next time,