The Ghost Of Clifford Roberts Surfaces In Scottsdale!

You may remember the "resignation opportunity" letter offered to Scottsdale National members by owner Bob Parsons. The GoDaddy.com founder had changed the name from Golf Club of Scottsdale and had dreams of building his own Augusta in Scottsdale. The results of the opportunity and revamped club appears to be borrowing liberally from the Clifford Roberts model for Augusta National, and that's not all bad! In fact, some of this is almost too good to be true.

To protect the innocent, this latest Parsons email to the members who survived the resignation opportunity has been copied and pasted from the original, emailed, stomped on, tilted and emailed again. But the ideas are undeniably those of Parsons who, if nothing else, will be considered reasonable for having backed off some of his original member demands (mandatory spending, big limits) and maybe even going full circle, turning into kind of a Santa Claus to those remaining members.

Here is the original letter.

And the latest correspondence, post-resignations and channeling his inner-Clifford: