OOD golf & country club
The estate is now starting a new chapter in its history . However , like many other golf estates , it is no stranger to tensions between developers and management . Typical of this were the problems with the golf course , which , after its halcyon days in the late 1990s , stumbled from one crisis to another .
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Many of these problems , experienced by estates , are caused by a troubled relationship between a developer and the estate . In simple terms , having built an expensive golf course , the developer – out of either a genuine lack of understanding , poor financial projections or simply the need to sell up properties and keep levies low in support of sales efforts – fudges the downstream issues of the course ’ s ongoing maintenance and upkeep .
In the case of Pecanwood , this was achieved by the sale of a number of very creative membership options , none of which addressed the need to acknowledge the golf course as a core asset . These initiatives also ignored
The lifestyle offerings to the parallel need for the course to be maintained by residents include a boat club everyone owning property on the estate , irrespective and country club with an of whether they played golf or not . array of creature comforts , a gym , sports fields and Pecanwood ’ s travails in this respect were not at all swimming pools , all housed unusual . In fact , they are typical of the results when within the estate ’ s top-level a dysfunctional structure is in place at the outset , security environment . especially in terms of the inherent dangers of allowing the golf course to be seen as a separate entity from the estate .
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