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Private Club Content Guide — May 2026

Your club is doing
great things.
Is anyone seeing it?

May is the most content-rich month on the private club calendar. Here is what to shoot, why it lands with members, and how to make it worth watching.

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Why May

Every department has a story this month. Most clubs never tell it.

The course is in its best shape. The pool just opened. The restaurant has a new menu. The pro shop just got restocked. This guide breaks down four content moments your club has right now and exactly what to shoot for each one.

01 / 04
Golf Operations
Welcome Back, Golfers

The season is here. Members who have been waiting since November deserve a proper send-off into the season, not just a tee sheet opening.

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02 / 04 🏊
Aquatics & Grounds
The Pool Is Open

Pool opening day is one of the most emotionally charged moments on the club calendar. It signals summer. Film it like it matters.

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03 / 04 🍹
Food & Beverage
Spring Menu Is Here

A new seasonal menu is content gold. The color, the craft, the story behind the dish. Most clubs post a JPEG. There is a better way.

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04 / 04 🧢
Pro Shop & Merchandise
New Gear Just Landed

Spring merchandise arrivals give members a reason to walk in. Great product content creates desire before they even step through the door.

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Welcome Back, Golfers — What to Shoot This Month

Reel / Short Form
Opening Day Reel

Players and staff arriving. The bag drop in motion. Practice facilities coming alive. GM, Head Pro, and Superintendent on camera welcoming the season. Course shots and an F&B highlight woven in. The full picture of opening day, edited down to sixty seconds.

Education / Entertainment
Play the 10th With Me

The Head Pro walks one hole start to finish, on camera, discussing pace of play, cart and caddie etiquette, where to stand on tees and greens, and ready golf. Useful for new members. Shareable enough that current members send it to their guests.

Interview
Superintendent Season Preview

Sit the Superintendent down and ask them what the last month looked like, where the course stands today, and what they are most excited about this season. Members who care about the property will watch it twice. The ones who do not will start caring.

Member Interview
Why Members Love This Club

Ask a few long-standing members what keeps them coming back. Let them talk. No script. This content fosters culture internally and quietly signals to prospective members what belonging here actually feels like.

The season opener only happens once. Content from this window carries emotional weight no other time of year can replicate. Shoot it now, use it all year.

The Pool Is Open — What to Shoot This Month

Reel / Short Form
Opening Day Community Reel

Document the full opening day as it happens. BBQ smoke, kids in the water, members catching up for the first time since last fall. Smiles. The energy of a community reuniting. No narration needed. Let the footage carry it.

F&B Crossover
Poolside Menu Preview

Whatever the club serves poolside, shoot it there. Burger with the pool in the background. Cocktail with a wet hand reaching for it. Context changes everything.

Family Moment
Why Families Belong Here

The pool is a membership retention tool disguised as an amenity. Film the kids. Film the parents watching. This is what dues are for, and members need to feel it.

Interview
Pool Director Season Preview

Sit down with the Pool Director for two minutes on camera. Ask about programming for the season, safety improvements, and what families can look forward to. Gives parents confidence. Makes the staff feel seen.

Pool content reaches a different demographic than golf content. Parents make membership decisions together. This is your chance to speak to both.

Spring Menu Is Here — What to Shoot This Month

Reel / Short Form
Ticket to Table

Follow one dish from the moment the ticket hits the line all the way to the table. The hands, the heat, the plating, the delivery. The full journey in sixty seconds. Members who have not been in for dinner will come back in for that plate.

Cocktail Feature
The Spring Cocktail Reel

A new seasonal cocktail is a visual gift. Film the pour, the build, the garnish. Put it in the right light. Make it feel like something worth ordering. Members will do exactly that.

Halfway House
The Halfway House Highlight

Every club has something at the turn that is uniquely theirs. A signature item, a local favorite, something members look forward to on the back nine. Put a camera on it. Give it a moment. It is more compelling than it sounds.

Venue Reel
Where Do You Want to Sit Tonight

A short reel moving through the different dining spaces at the club. The bar, the main room, the patio, the private dining room. Members who have only eaten in one space will start exploring the others. The club becomes bigger.

F&B is one of the highest-friction areas in private clubs. Members who do not use the restaurant regularly often say they forgot how good it was. Remind them before they book somewhere else.

New Gear Just Landed — What to Shoot This Month

Unboxing Reel
New Merchandise Just Arrived

Shoot it exactly how you see it on social media. The box opening, the tissue paper, the first look at the pieces. Members respond to this format because they already watch it everywhere else. Give them the same experience with gear they can actually buy.

Staff Favorites
What the Staff Is Wearing This Season

Golf staff each hold up their favorite piece from the new arrivals and tell members why. Keep it short and personal, no script. Authenticity sells product in a way a display rack never will.

Gift Feature
Mother's Day Must-Haves

Highlight three to five pieces that would make the right gift for the mom in your member's life. Style it well, light it properly, and give each item ten seconds. Mother's Day is close enough that this lands at exactly the right moment.

Carousel / Static
Shop Display Gallery

Shoot the shop displays properly and post them as a carousel. Clean, well-lit, showing the full breadth of what just came in. Members who have not been in the shop lately will come in specifically because of what they saw.

Pro shop revenue is the most underleveraged content opportunity in private clubs. Members do not browse. They buy what they see. Make them see it.

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You're busy,
let me film it.

This is what I do. I come to your property and turn the moments your members already experience into content worth keeping.

Contact Rich at rich@richwehringergolf.com to get started

Rich Wehringer, PGA  ·  Golf Cinematography  ·  richwehringergolf.com