Danny Kamel, one of the Mission, Texas club’s owners, cited a few lawsuits filed by members of the homeowners association as having negatively affected the flow of business to the golf course. “Within a matter of two or three months, we lost about half of our members due to that,” he says.
Owners of Cimarron Country Club in Mission, Texas have announced that the golf course will permanently shut down at the end of August, The Monitor reported. Danny Kamel, one of the club’s owners, confirmed the news July 28.
“About two years ago we acquired the property,” Kamel said. “When we acquired it, actually the previous owners were going to shut it down. When we got it delivered, everyone had been fired, and in one day, we hired everyone back just to give it one last shot. We knew the importance of the business for the community.”
Kamel cited a few lawsuits filed by members of the Cimarron Homeowners Association as having negatively affected the flow of business to the golf course, The Monitor reported.
“Endless, endless defamation,” Kamel said. “Telling people, ‘This place is no good.’ ‘You should cancel your membership.’ ‘Leave, leave, leave.’” Kamel said. “Within a matter of two or three months, we lost about half of our members due to that.”
Kamel said that the country club has continually been losing money for the last year-and-a-half, resulting in his accountant recommending that the owners shut down all golf and clubhouse related operations, The Monitor reported.
“This month we said that we don’t anticipate the situation with previous members giving us a second chance or our neighbors to stop badmouthing us,” Kamel said. “It just never happened. Unfortunately, we have to close it. That’s not what we wanted to do. We’ve been sustaining this for two whole years.”
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