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- Commitments
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2012
- Commitments

Note 6 – Commitments

 

Lease agreements

 

The land underlying the CGC is leased under an operating lease that expires in 2012 and has two five-year renewal options.  In March 2006, the Company exercised the first of two options, extending the lease to 2018.  Also, the lease has a provision for contingent rent to be paid by AAGC upon reaching certain levels of gross revenues.  The Company recognizes the minimum rental expense on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease, which includes the two five year renewal options.

 

At March 31, 2012, minimum future lease payments under non-cancelable operating leases are as follows:

 

 

2012                           $           408,596

2013                                          529,840

2014                                          529,840

2015                                          529,840

2016                                          529,840

Thereafter                    $         3,035,369

                                                           

                                                            $         5,563,325

                                               

 

Total rent expense for this operating lease was $121,244 and $121,515 for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011.

 

Capital Lease

 

The Company entered into a capital lease for new Club Car gas powered golf carts.  The lease is  47 months in length and started on March 1, 2010.  The Company pays $2,612 a month in principal and interest expense related to the lease.

 

The Company entered into a capital lease for a new telephone system during the third quarter of 2011.  The lease is 36 months in length and started in July of 2011.  The Company pays $642 a month in principal and interest expense related to the lease. 

 

The following is a schedule by year of future minimum payments required under these lease agreements.

 

 

 

2012

$        28,854 

 

 

2013

           38,471

 

 

2014

             6,767

 

 

Total payments

           74,092

 

 

Less interest

           (8,816)

 

 

Total principal

           65,276

 

 

Less current portion

         (32,003)

 

 

Long-term portion

 $        33,273

 

 

 

 

Accumulated depreciation for the capital leases as of March 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011 was $56,880 and $49,154, respectively.

Customer Agreement

On June 19, 2009, the Company entered into a “Customer Agreement” with Callaway Golf Company (“Callaway”) and St. Andrews Golf Shop, Ltd. (“SAGS”) through our majority owned subsidiary AAGC. Pursuant to this agreement, AAGC shall expend an amount equal to or exceeding $250,000 for marketing and promotion of Callaway for a period of approximately three and one half years with an automatic extension to December 31, 2018 unless written notice of termination is received by November 2013. Additionally, pursuant to the Customer Agreement AAGC has expended amounts to improve both its range facility as well as the golfing center. These improvements include Callaway Golf® branding elements. Callaway agreed to provide funding and resources in the minimum amount of $2,750,000 to be allocated as follows: 1) $750,000 towards operating expenses of AAGC; 2) $750,000 towards facility improvements for both AAGC and St. Andrews Golf Shop; 3) $500,000 in range landing area improvements of AAGC and 4) three payments each of $250,000 for annual advertising expenses paid by AAGC, which will be repaid in golf merchandise to SAGS. AAGC will then be reimbursed by SAGS for AAGC’s expenditures in advertising as incurred. Due to the fact that SAGS is a related party, the Company is also considered a customer of Callaway as it relates to the Customer Agreement. As a result, we recognized the contributions from Callaway as follows:

Contribution of operating expenses totaling $750,000 (received July 2009) was treated as a reduction of operating expenses and therefore reduced our “General and administrative” expense by that amount.

Contribution of range and other facility improvements totaling $554,552 were recorded as a reduction of the costs for those improvements. The contributions, which were made directly by Callaway to the applicable contractors and vendors completing the work, were exactly equal to the costs and therefore, no value as been recorded for these improvements.

The annual payments for advertising began in 2010 and will continue as long as Callaway, AAGC and SAGS agree to maintain the agreement through the term of the Customer Agreement in December 2018.  Such contributions from Callaway of up to $250,000 annually will be recorded as a reduction of the Company’s costs for the related advertising.  Additionally, the contributions are to be paid to SAGS in the form of golf related products.  SAGS will then reimburse AAGC in monies as the related golf products are received.  During the three months ending March 31, 2012 and 2011, SAGS reimbursed AAGC $111 and $22,849, respectively.