{"id":748,"date":"2007-08-09T06:30:55","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T13:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=748"},"modified":"2007-08-09T06:31:03","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T13:31:03","slug":"the-crossings-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"The Crossing&#8217;s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/1-01-408-7-07a.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/1-01-408-7-07a.jpg','popup','width=600,height=374,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/1-01-408-7-07a-tm.jpg\" height=\"124\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"1 01 408 7 07A\" \/><\/a>Sure Carlsbad has been waiting for a municipal golf course for 17 years, and yes, there is a lot of excitement: the two days of locals only golf scheduled for this weekend sold out in 20 minutes. The question the North County Times is asking is: then what? What happens after the honeymoon is over and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrossingsatcarlsbad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Crossings-at-Carlsbad<\/a><\/strong> is just one more Southern California golf course?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Just because a new course opens up doesn&#8217;t mean that 35,000 more rounds (a year) are being played,&#8221; said <strong>John McNair<\/strong>, vice president of operations for <strong>JC Golf<\/strong>, which manages nine courses in San Diego and Temecula, including The Crossings&#8217; neighbor, Encinitas Ranch, and inland courses such as Twin Oaks in San Marcos, the Rancho Bernardo Inn and the par-3 Reidy Creek in Escondido. &#8220;The Crossings is going to take a chunk from everyone.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an industry that&#8217;s currently not growing it will be interesting for everyone. Maybe this will force a price war at local courses. Then we all win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/08\/09\/news\/top_stories\/1_01_408_7_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure Carlsbad has been waiting for a municipal golf course for 17 years, and yes, there is a lot of excitement: the two days of locals only golf scheduled for this weekend sold out in 20 minutes. The question the North County Times is asking is: then what? What happens after the honeymoon is over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}