Jeremy Rusco Bought A Golf Course For Disc Golf

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we have Jeremy in the wings all right we'll bring him on Jeremy rusco the new owner of the Formerly Known Emporia Country Club Jeremy thank you so much for taking the time to join us tonight BR to ulie thanks for having me on looking forward to it of course I have to say this uh the news of this breaking definitely caught my eye I have seen you know Pros going out and buying land or taking part in like making their own home course somewhere here but I've I I haven't seen someone buy a an actual country club before and and that that's a big I mean that's a big big purchase with a lot of land a lot of Maintenance and everything so I've tons of questions but I guess my first one is like how did this come about like what was the uh the the beginning starting of this uh well a little over year ago um more than that but the the country club has um as a lot of people are probably aware the country club model is uh doesn't really work all that well in in smaller you know rural communities like Emporia 25,000 a little bit larger than that um the financial you know stability of a country club just doesn't doesn't seem to make sense and so last year the a little over a year ago the club actually went up for sale um I actually there was only two interested parties at the time and uh the old shareholders and the old money I guess you could say um you know they had their group and then it was it was me and the I guess you could say the old money wanted to stick with the old money and um you tried to buy it a couple years ago correct back in 2022 okay well a year ago the end of 2022 yep okay and and that was okay had a lot going on with the you know the house of discs um you know Dynamic Discs merger acquisition and uh the timing just wasn't right so it was certainly um okay with that I knew that they were going to at least they said they were going to put some more effort into you know the the facility and and the disc golf course and...