Brightside Bengal

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The unique issue there is it is pretty inconvenient to access the facilities and they have like a 60,000 square foot clubhouse to maintain

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This. I say all this as a current member.

The clubhouse is 43,000 sq ft and has massive overhead for utilities and maintenance. The food and beverage has not been anything enticing since Poon purchased the club. So the F&B revenue from the relatively small membership is minuscule. We see events like weddings out there every so often, but not every weekend or anything close to what would be needed to have it survive as an event space. Probably the most profitable thing they've had for the club in several years are rare filming rentals of the facility.

So you've got this massive building that was basically built as the community center for a very upscale gated community back when virtually every homeowner was required or just wanted to be a member of the club. The demographics of the neighborhood have changed drastically over the last 20 years to wear roughly half of the homeowners probably have no interest in the country club. There is no HOA requirement or incentive to be a member of the club. They take pretty sizable losses every month due to overhead and F&b.

Onto the golf.... The course is still the best layout in the city and is usually in good shape ....except for the greens and tee boxes. They did a surface level reinstallation of new greens in late 2021 that were nice when they opened with a new type of grass called mach one. Only problem is that they have completely killed the greens twice between 2021 and now due to lack of watering. So when there are constantly dead spots and growth issues with the greens now, I can't even really blame it on the turf provider. The tee boxes are often bombed out and in sandy condition just due to laziness and bad maintenance practices in my opinion.

The course does get a lot of nonmember play, which helps overall revenue. Im told the golf course by itself does turn a profit. However, they are kind of in a Catch-22 to where they have made outside play cheap enough that a lot of members have quit and just paid the daily guest fee of about $85. Monthly dues for a single member are $300. If they increase the daily nonmember fee to $120 or more, I suspect outside play would all but dry up. And until they consistently improve the condition of the greens, they cannot grow the golfing membership base.

I'm honestly not sure what troon will be able to do to to stop the losses on the clubhouse/food and beverage side. And I'm not sure they can significantly improve the greens without completely redoing them again at this point, which I'm sure no one is putting up the money for.

Wycombe loses today while Wrexham wins 3-0! Today just may have clinched Wrexham going up!

Will be returning to Myrtle for the first time in 10 years for a guys golf trip. On the last trip, we went to a strip club called Masters that was pretty big and pretty fun from what I remember.

Is it still the place to go? Any other strip club recs in Myrtle?

Probably the most painless way to die is carbon monoxide poisioning. You get a little lightheaded and then fall asleep for good. You can't tell me that it's cruel and unusual punishment. Would solve all the issues of not being able to get lethal injection drugs for political reasons. Cost the taxpayer nothing and probably would get no headlines.

Got this idea from a recent movie, but won't say which one so as not to give spoilers....

Let's say a star WNBA player, we'll just pick Caitlin Clark for the sake of the argument, has a routine surgery like getting their appendix removed. Let's say it's discovered during the surgery that the female player also possesses internal male genitalia (testes). The player, who otherwise has all female anatomy, would've had no way of knowing this without body scans or prior surgery. These male organs ostensibly give (or at least indicate) the player some physiological advantages over other completely female players. The information found during this surgery somehow becomes public.

How do you think the league and the media react to this situation?

I read an article that quoted how the lions Vikings game this weekend is historical for the amount of combined wins, but could not figure out when (or if) the last time this situation happened of a final week divisional game being for the division title and number one seed at the same time.

Looking for a Chiropractor that will do the full range of adjustments to all the different parts of the body such as you see on a number of different youtube videos. I don’t have any particular pain, just the normal stiffness of someone knocking on the door of 40. I’ve had a few adjustments in the past that were just specifically to remedy acute neck pain, but that doc isn’t the type of doc I’m looking for. I enjoy getting an adjustment more than an actual massage, so possibly a doc that has enough time to treat someone that doesn’t just need injury treatment.

Carr is terrible