James , I know that all to well ---Had the same thing happen when I was transrfered to Crescent Oaks CC.... The crew there were really expecting American golf to give the position to the Assistant when they terminated the Super... The Course was a disaster when I was tranferred there. Half of the greens were almost non puttable , Tees were extremely weak as were some of the fairways ..Memebers were really po'ed at AGC. I tried to get along with the Assitant and the crew ( That was a BIG BAD decision ) I should have cleaned house at the beggining. No matter how well I treated or tried to work with some of them, They continued to fight me. One guy , (the Mechanic) went so far as to call the police saying I was shooting Alligators after his multiple attempts with AGC human resources failed. Several of them were snakes in the grass and played buddy with me and boom...it finally came out ...Most of the original crew ended up quiting 1 at a time knowing that they could not get rid of me with lies to AGC's Human resourses, head of Security and corp. head Lawyer..At least the members learned to like me
My honey moon period never ended ,,Then AGC sold the course and off to a Hilton Head Resort course I went to another disaster of a course ( Worse than Crescent Oaks)
But I still like growing Bent grass in Dallas Texas