Certainly it will need maintenance as a park. No one is forgetting a park requires maintenance and that maintenance will be paid by all association members. A park, however, would be open to all association members  to use. A very valuable open space amenity to increase property values and attract home buyers.

And those of you who think goats or sheep are the answer should  wake up.

Why the nonsense?

Our goal should be to improve the management of the course to either break even or make a profit, not to shut it down.

I'm not sure how long you have lived or owned here, but I first heard the above mantra perhaps around the year 2000. The push to improve the course via studies, capital investment, cart changes, etc., began in earnest around  2004. 

So, after 10 years of abject failure trying to accomplish the goal you suggest, how many more decades should OPA association members expect to see millions of their assessment dollars dumped down the sewer we call a golf amenity with a membership constantly falling and now down to 130 or so?