In 2006, two years after opening to acclaim as the best new private course in America, The Concession Golf Club in Lakewood Ranch was fighting for its survival. Its clubhouse was still a double-wide trailer. Lunch was prepared on a George Foreman grill. And even though the club had pared its initiation fee to $25,000, it had just 50 members. The subprime crisis was taking hold, and housing prices were falling.