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Private golf clubs struggle amid economic downturn

Sunday, February 15, 2009

By Bob Weiner (Contact)
Gazette Reporter

In the popular 1980 movie comedy “Caddyshack,” private and elite Bushwood Country Club is besieged by gophers and the intrusion of zany real estate tycoon Al Czervik, played by the late Rodney Dangerfield.
Wacky assistant greens superintendent Carl Spackler, played by Bill Murray, never conquers the wily gophers, and he blows up much of the club trying to exterminate them.
These days, private golf clubs all across the country, including the Capital Region, are struggling for survival, and gophers are the least of their problems. They don’t have the economic muscle of Bushwood’s Ty Webb (Chevy Chase) or Judge Smalls (Ted Knight)....

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