The controversy over Club West Golf Course’s deterioration accelerated last week on several fronts.
Those developments included:
• A group of golfers pondered asking the state Attorney General to conduct a civil or criminal investigation into what happened to the money they paid for membership in a semi-private club started by course owner Richard Breuninger and his Club West Golf Management company. They may decide tonight what to do after hearing from the investor who sued Breuninger.
• That investor, William Day, offered to assume the course’s debts and pay a delinquent $200,00 water bill if Breuninger is ousted from anything to do with Club West. Day’s lawyer, Jeffrey Proper, said his offer was rejected because it did not include any money for Breuninger himself.
• Former course owner Wilson Gee said he has formally warned Breuninger and his Inter Tribal Golf Association that they are late on his $1.3 million mortgage and that the course may wind up in a trustee sale unless they catch up on the payments.
• Biscuits owner Lloyd Melton told AFN that he hopes to reopen his restaurant at the Club West Clubhouse once the city puts a meter for water service to his eatery in his name.
All this activity transpired as the course’s blanket of grass disappeared, deprived of water since the city cut off service Feb. 22.
Breuninger and Inter Tribal Golf Association bought the course officially on Dec. 1 for $1.3 million, signing a note held by Gee.
By that time, the over-seeding that Breuninger started about two months earlier had produced a lush green landscape.
In the meantime, he offered golfers a chance to join a semi-private club he was starting at Club West, promising a number of perks such as advance booking, preferred tee times and free cart use and balls in return for anywhere between $3,600 and $6,000 that covered membership dues through the end of next year.
Some of those golfers attended a meeting March 20 and said they were told by three representatives of Club West Golf Management that Day was responsible for paying expenses, including the water bill.
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