Is it too much to ask for a course to be profitable? No doubt the city courses are grossly mismanaged by charging ultra high green fees that force golfers to play elsewhere. But if they aren't going to develop a plan to profit from it then may as well sell. Maybe this will cause a shortage of tee times in the city in the short term, but it's clear what is happening now is not working. 

Love golf, but the prices being charged at these city courses is nothing to love. Sell. 

#9: Jp - Supply and demand 

 Perhaps instead of blindly selling an asset - an asset that was profitable for City coffers for many years - perhaps a hard look at management structures and practices needs to be done. There have been no changes to the practices in many years, I would suggest trying to find alternative ways to make this business model profitable or at very least break-even. This is not an impossibility, and losing an asset like this without even attempting to fix it would be an absolutely travesty.