Backspin Volume 3, Issue 4 | Page 18

carterplantationshutsdownfor5days It’s often difficult in the golf business to detach ourselves from the luxury and look at the business side of things. While the sport is for leisure and competition, both of which are not necessarily needs, it is also still a business. And people’s livelihoods depend on this business. Shutting down for five days was a pretty big financial hit for Carter Plantation. With two days of what seemed like endless downpours, followed still by occasional showers that added insult to injury, PGA Professional Andre Caldwell said parts of the normally busy and activity filled golf course looked like part of Blood River, the neighboring body of water th