Barney, no argument here. Sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. But you may have misperceived my point. If golf is deemed to be "safe" if played under the right conditions I am all for it as a needed distraction and healthy activity. If the shop and restaurant follow appropriate safety rules, the same is true. How travel by air to Bandon can be safe is a tougher question. My biggest issue was Mike's statement that the operators did not have a problem. Awfully short sighted given the scope of the problem. I think Mike acknowledged as such. By the way, I know how that works. As a bankruptcy lawyer during the financial crisis our business benefited. While we were happy for the business, I can assure you that we did not view the economic crisis as not being a "problem". We would have been just as happy to compete for work in better times.
SL,I am assuming you watched the video we sent out and how we have set up during these times.
My wife manages the ER here in our town and we are actually on a "shelter in place at home" except for food/fuel and exercise which can be walks with golf included. Our county is the only county in the state with such a restriction due to our being the "Berkley of the South" image.
At our place if you go to our FB page you will see that we spray our carts after each round, wipe our pins, allow no clubhouse access except for bathroom which is sprayed each hour and all of our water is bottled with no ice etc. Tee times are 15 minutes apart and only one group can be under the tent checking in at a time. We allow 2 foursomes on the putting green.
When I stated that owners of privately held public venues had no problem , I was speaking of the golf business and how the closing of the munis eliminated the perceived "not enough golfers" problem. I was not bringing COVAD19 into the discussion. Sorry for not clarifying.