using is tied into lifetime management, which is a complex question.
Usually, the usage of using you're deploying here would be for things that your method owns; for example, here:
using (var dbContext = new DbContext(whatever)) { // some code }
(or just using var dbContext = new DbContext(whatever); in recent C# versions)
In the above, we are clearly creating the thing, so it is our job to make sure that it gets disposed, which is happening thanks to the using.
However, in the example in the question, it isn't clear what _db_ClubIsOpen is, or what the lifetime is, or who owns it. By default, I would absolutely not assume that a method is responsible for taking ownership of an arbitrary field, so I would not expect to use using here, in the sense of using (_someField) as shown in the question. Instead, I would expect either some DI/IoC framework to deal with that (if it is being injected), or I would expect the type to implement IDipsosable, and deal with disposing the field in Dispose().
_db_ClubIsOpen? where did it come from? what is the expected lifetime? I would not assume that your controller method is meant to be disposing something that it didn't create, so... who did create it? lifetime management is complex, and we don't have all the context hereusing- it's just syntactic sugar,using(X){ ... }is translated toX; try { ... } finally {X.Dispose()}_db_ClubIsOpenalmost sounds like it would be abool, to be honest.usingabsolutely generates atry/finally; this is formally documented in the language specification §13.14 (ECMA 334); additionally,usinghas no relation whatsoever directly to GC