"Country club members, managers step up with good deeds during crisis"

Dave Shedloski at GolfDigest.com checks in on many parts of the United States to find out how country club’s giving back during the COVD-19 crisis.

It’s early still but the immediate creativity and focus on club employees who are out of work is heartening. Just one highlight from the story:

On the other end of the spectrum (and, well, we do mean the other end), the Country Club of Fairfax in Fairfax, Va., is offering free toilet paper in limited quantities to its members, but management is encouraging the members to instead donate $20 per roll to add to an employee relief fund established for the club staff.

In Newtown, Pa., the members of Jericho National Golf Club are taking a different tack. They have requested that their $150 monthly food minimum be given to the club’s employees.

Reassigning employees, or cross-training them, is a plan enacted by many clubs to keep their staffs working—and earning income. This has enabled The Cliffs and Kiawah Island Club in South Carolina, both owned by South Street Partners, to keep their 1,100 seasonal personnel employed.