The hotel and the community, including the golf course, I find to be quite separate from each other. I don't think they all have the greatest relationship either for what it is worth.
I don't know what you mean by "golf-club environment and ethos", but it is definitely not a golf resort.
Oh, I think most folk know what is meant by golf-club environment and ethos.
Meanwhile — next week I am in LA at the Peninsula BH for the William Blake exhibition at the Getty Center. Then at La Casa Que Canta in Zihua in mid-December.