The old owner stated that the course was netting a $60,000 profit per year when he left. That place has never struggled.
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The previous owners were great, I'm not sure why it changed hands.
I also want to point out that they wanted $10,000 worth of added merch on the am-side, which was to be redeemed with vouchers in their pro-shop. Anybody who has wholesale ordered and given prizes valued at retail knows how much money was in that alone.
Not to mention the $10 per player per round with a field of over 150 players playing 3 rounds AND the forced rental of their lodge for $1,500 that they didn't need or want.
So basically around $6,000 in fees and another $4,000-$5,000 in merch sales is what the owner was asking the club that installed and basically owns the course to use it.
It's not a "select few" people that are upset, as the owner has put it. It is the entire Colorado disc golf community that has had NO problem with the P2P model until now that is collectively boycotting the course.
If you are coming to visit, drive 15 minutes up the road and play Bailey. It's the better course anyways.
In an effort to reward those FFDGC members who participated in the course building, BRDGC LLC has extended to those members lifetime free playing passes. They are able to play free on a course they built in or near their own community.
The old owner stated that the course was netting a $60,000 profit per year when he left. That place has never struggled.
Oh, so will the club pull their baskets? That would be a decent follow-up to this.
But all this is just over the tournament, right? Besides saying they either (a) don't want to hold it, or (b) want to charge a ton if they do hold it, nothing else has changed...besides a $2 increase in daily fees?
It just seems to me like boycotting a place like that over 1 event getting the axe is an overreaction on the part of the locals.
Especially since:
Then, as others have asked, why is there no outrage at the old owner making 60K a year off the locals work and then leaving them with nothing and selling the place to people who don't care about disc golf? Seems like that is who they should be angry with.
If you are coming to visit, drive 15 minutes up the road and play Bailey. It's the better course anyways.
I can't believe how quick everyone is to **** all over the people that did that hard work, and put in the course, while giving greedy disc golf hating people a pass... on a disc golf forum. :wall:
Tim Thanks for stepping in and doing the right thing.I removed the reviews... if they have beef with the new ownership they can post it on the course wall here but the review area is for reviews of the course.
We tried our best to secure a second location to accommodate more people but it isn't in the cards for 2018. Beaver Ranch threw us a curveball when they pulled all of their previous support and decided that FFDGC can only run a one-day tournament at the end of October. We recommend that everyone supports the Bailey Disc Golf Course! Bailey DGC is operated by BOERA (non-profit 5013-c) and the funds that go into the donation box go directly back to the park or to the Platte Canyon School District.
As many of you have probably already heard, The Bloom tournament will not be hosted at the Beaver Ranch Disc Golf Course this 2018. This is unfortunate news to the BRDGC crew as we worked hard in crafting terms that would have been mutually beneficial to both the FFDGC as well as BRDGC. The previous Bloom in 2017 resulted in a substantial financial loss for BRDGC. In an effort to see that The Bloom happened with us this year we presented 3 varying deals to the FFDGC that would have resulted in the club paying absolutely NO MONEY out of pocket. Unfortunately we did not hear back from the FFDGC for over a month. The response back from the club was that THEY CHOSE NOT TO HOST THE BLOOM WITH US in 2018. Not once did the FFDGC ever approach the BRDGC with a counter to any of the 3 deals that were offered. Not once did we demand that the FFDGC needed to move The Bloom to a one day tournament in Fall 2018 nor did we, or have we, pulled our support for The Bloom or FFDGC. It was solely the FFDGC who chose not to host The 2018 Bloom at BRDGC. We know this tournament is near and dear to many of you, including ourselves, and being the unique situation this is, and the lies surrounding this, please feel free to call 720-295-9490 for additional information.
-B.R.D.G.C.
I don't know or care about the details, but if you guys want to toss out vendetta-type, artificially-low ratings, you are not improving your position. You can't justify it.
I would've pulled the baskets yesterday.