P.J. Simao, owner of Ives Hill Country Club in Watertown, N.Y., has written to the city charging that the rent it collects from Watertown Golf Club for nine holes is “well under market” and amounts to “an unfair subsidy” that shows “patently unfair favoritism.” Watertown GC is up for sale and a rival developer outbid…

The club, established in 1926, owns land for nine of the 18 holes at the golf course, leasing holes seven through 15 from the city since it expanded in the 1960s. The property is also about $400,000 in debt, and a sale price has not been disclosed.