Letter From James Gibson, President and CEO

Dear Members,

We are hoping for generous April Showers to bring Garden of the Gods Resort and Club beautiful landscaping back to life this spring, as well as much needed continued moisture to our golf courses. We are happy to announce that thanks to excellent golf course management, snow and rain fall in the past few weeks and most of all thanks to your help and cooperation, that effective today golf carts can resume on the golf courses.

In April, we will host our regular Sunday Brunch on April 3rd , and our annual Easter Brunch on April 17th in the Grand View and The View. An exciting Easter Egg Hunt will be held on the Driving Range at 10:30am and 1:30pm. Do not forget to reserve Kids’ Club’s scheduled fun activities leading up to the holiday for all our youngest members to experience. Easter brunch is completely sold out at both venues, but there are still some spots available for the Easter Egg Hunt events.

The first golf Demo Day of the season will be held on Saturday, April 23rd , reservations are needed and can be made through the Pro Shop. This is your chance to be fitted and have new clubs in time for golf season proper. There will be other demo days throughout the summer with more dates to be announced.

Member Socials are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, April 19th & 20th. When registration opens, please be sure to reserve up to two members per membership for one evening. We ask that you do register both yourself and your spouse or significant other and attend one night only to leave opportunity for other members to participate.

Thank you to those that participated in our Member Survey at the end of last year. To address one of the concerns raised in the survey, we were asked about placing a cap on memberships to maintain the club’s exclusivity and protect against too much volume. I share that since 2018 our total number of memberships has declined by almost 2%. For golf course memberships, we are flat currently to how we finished 2018. While we report monthly in this newsletter on new memberships sold, we do not report on resignations or members who downgrade their memberships, so while it might seem that we have more members, we are staying very flat in numbers. We therefore have no need to stop selling memberships or to impose any cap. Further feedback on the membership survey will be forthcoming later this month.

Finally, if you recall, we added a new Fall Festival last year to our list of many activities, which was a great success. We are therefore similarly adding a Summer Festival on Saturday, May 28th on the Kissing Camels Golf Driving Range. This member event will begin at 2:00 p.m. with a beer garden, music, petting zoo and pony rides, bounce house, birdie ball golf contest and many more family activities until 6:00 p.m. that evening. More information will be sent out on this activity at the end of this month, and we will hope to see you and your family there.

Wishing you all a blessed and happy April.

Yours Sincerely, .