\u201cWe’re still open to any conversations,\u201d Mr Boyd said.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately, we won’t be able to have anyone on site here from the 22nd from a liability perspective, and we’ll do what we can to support them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis solution made the most sense to see that through that would give us a chance to give our staff and our members some notice on what’s happening, and also an occasion to run down our stocks.\u201d<\/p>\n
The club is now working on solutions to assist members, staff and the attached gym, Corowa Combat Sports, to move on from the closure with as little disruption as possible.<\/p>\n
Mr Boyd took on the job as general manager at Corowa Golf Club just four weeks ago, with a focus to find a solution to the club\u2019s financial woes.<\/p>\n
In the 18 months previous he held a financial support management role at the club, designed to improve reporting and to get more clarity on the situation.<\/p>\n
He said the role gave him the knowledge he needed as general manager to pursue all possible avenues to avoid closure before concluding that the club just couldn\u2019t continue along its current trajectory.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the pokies were in full swing in New South Wales 30 years ago, there was money in the bank, and things were solid,\u201d Mr Boyd said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a gradual deterioration since then.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe financial results over the last seven to eight years show a deficit almost every year.\u201d<\/p>\n
While public perception is that the club is always busy, Mr Boyd said there was a delineation between what happens on the course and what happens in the club, even though they\u2019re part of the same business.<\/p>\n
\u201cGolfers come here for golf first, and then the club,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cParticularly, the full members who are down here all the time playing golf don’t necessarily come into the club all the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey’re here for their sport and their recreation, and that’s the whole purpose of the course.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s the attraction of outside players, we call them the \u2018play and stay group\u2019, which needs more growth, and ultimately, it’s coming too slow and too late in the piece for that focused growth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe’re still open to any conversations,\u201d Mr Boyd said. \u201cUltimately, we won’t be able to have anyone on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-476651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}