Lochland Country Club’s FORECAST
COURSE
3 PM -7 PM
Call for tee-times, 402-462-8783.
POOL
Noon - 8 PM
Food & Drink Service.
Waiver swim only after 8/12
GOLF SHOP
7 AM -7 PM
Call for tee-times 402-462-8783
PLAYERS LOUNGE
10 AM - dusk
Food and drink service.
POOL
CLUBHOUSE CLOSED
Administrative staff available from 9 AM - 5 PM
Noon - 8 PM
Food & Drink Service. Waiver swim only after 8/12
HAPPY HOUR
4 PM - 6 PM
Piper’s Lounge Only Appetizer specials, $2 domestics, $3 wines, $3 wells.
GOLF SHOP
7 AM -7 PM
Call for tee-times, 402-462-8783.
PLAYERS LOUNGE
10 AM - dusk
Food and drink service.
POOL
Noon - 8 PM
Food & Drink Service. Waiver swim only after 8/12
HAPPY HOUR
4 PM - 6 PM
Piper’s Lounge Only Appetizer specials, $2 domestics, $3 wines, $3 wells.
MEN’S LEAGUE
5:45 PM
We waive room reservation fees for members, regardless of the type of event. Call to make a room reservation at 402-462-4151, email banquets@lochlandcc.com or for more information visit lochlandcc.com/venues .
GOLF SHOP
7 AM -7 PM
Call for tee-times, 402-462-8783.
PLAYERS LOUNGE
10 AM - dusk
Food and drink service.
POOL
Noon - 8 PM
Food & Drink Service.
Waiver swim only after 8/12
HAPPY HOUR
4 PM - 6 PM
Piper’s Lounge Only
Appetizer specials, $2 domestics, $3 wines, $3 wells.
LADIES LEAGUE
5:45 PM
GOLF SHOP
7 AM -7 PM
Call for tee-times, 402-462-8783.
PLAYERS LOUNGE
10 AM - dusk
Food and drink service.
POOL
Noon - 8 PM
Food & Drink Service.
Waiver swim only after 8/12
16 INCH PIZZAS
4 PM - 9 PM
GOLF SHOP
7 AM -7 PM
Call for tee-times, 402-462-8783.
PLAYERS LOUNGE
10 AM - dusk
Food and drink service.
POOL
Noon - 6 PM
Food & Drink Service.
7 AM -7 PM
Call for tee-times, 402-462-8783.
POOL
Noon - 8 PM
Food & Drink Service.
HALF PRICE WINE
4 PM-9:30 PM
50% off bottles with dinner reservation
CLUBHOUSE CLOSED
No clubhouse or kitchen service.
Annual Dues Vouchers
Make sure to get your Reservation in!
Those who pay their dues annually receive $50 vouchers! Social members receive $50 towards clubhouse purchases, and golfing members receive $50 towards clubhouse and $50 towards golf shop purchases. Vouchers will be mailed in February.
Whether it is dining in or ordering for carry-out, make sure to get your reservation in early. Month-end reservation slots fill up fast, and we want to make sure to best serve you! You can always call in to make a reservation at 402-462-4151.
COUPLE’S GOLF
Aug 2nd @ 6:00pm
Sign-up with Golf Genius or Golf Shop Glow on... you know you want to join us for the last couple’s golf of 2024! Tonight will be all about neon and all things glowing. We will even end with some glow putting challenges.
POOL WAIVER SWIM
Begins Aug. 12th
As our lifeguards go back to school the pool will switch to waiver swim for 18+ only during the school week. Saturday and Sunday the pool will be staffed with lifeguards.
NEW MEMBER MIXER
Aug 16th @ 4:00pm - 6:30pm All members are welcome to join us on the pool patio for hor d’oeuvres and beverages to get to know and welcome in our new members!
Switch to ACH
Lochland offers our members ACH payments. This automatic withdrawal is the simplest way to maintain your account. The amount billed in your statement is withdrawn on the 10th of the month from your chosen bank account.
PRIME RIB NIGHTS
Aug 16th &17th @ 5pm lochlandcc.com/prime-rib-night 10 oz and 14 oz cuts of Prime Rib, whilesupplieslast.Servedwithstarter saladorsoup,andtwosides. Dine-inOnly. Reservations at 402-462-4151 or online.
MILLER COORS
2 MAN SCRAMBLEAug. 24th & 25th
As a member of Lochland, you’re part of a network of country clubs across the nation. Ask us to make dining reservations when you travel, even if it’s just up the road. Or, we can book tee-times at a course new to you. Our new ‘Open Rounds’ subscription offers play at even more courses nationwide with tee-times accessible online. Learn more at lochlandcc.com/nationwide-tee-times.
Let us help you!
AUGUST CMBA STAG
Aug 30th @ 1:30 pm
Sign up With Golf Genius or Golf Shop Shotgun Start. Match play seeding and parimutuel betting to follow play. Format: 2-Man 1 Net Best Ball
Aug Stag - 8/30
LAST SPLASH
FAMILY POOL PARTY
Aug. 25th @ 6:30pm - 9:30pm
The summer is coming to an end, so we will send it off in style! No RSVP required, just dive into the fun! This event is a little later than usual so we can enjoy a night and glow swim!
LABOR DAY
WEEKEND
Aug. 30th - Sept. 2nd
For the last weekend of the summer and pool season, make sure to stop out for one last swim! Last pool day is Monday, Sept. 2nd with a grill out in the pool multipurpose room.
Updates For Youth
Pizza Night Fridays
Pool goes to weekends only on Aug. 12th
Last Splash Pool Party Aug. 25th
HAPPY BIRTH-MONTH TO OUR AUGUST BIRTHDAYS!
JOIN US FOR A FREE DESSERT THIS MONTH!
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Lochland Members –
This month I want to do something a little different. I want to highlight an article by Tony Chapman that he wrote for his online newsletter Flatwater Sports.
In our previous newsletter this summer when we went to Columbus to tour Elks Country Club, we noted that it might be prudent to analyze the revival of Nebraska golf in the 1960s.
Off memory, many towns outside of Lincoln and Omaha had just 9-hole courses in the 1950s. The Omaha World-Herald’s Stu Pospisil gives a good run of these courses in his wonderful book — Nebraska Golf: Out of the Shadows.
To wit, his chapter entitled “Beyond the Big Cities” attempts to document these towns and their golf in the late 1950s. Beatrice had a fine 18-hole routing designed by Tom Bendelow, but after that you won’t find much. It would appear you could only add Kearney (Country Club), North Platte (now River’s Edge), Scotts Bluff (Country Club; since moved) and Alliance (the to-be SkyView Municipal) as 18-hole tracts outside of Lincoln and Omaha in 1960.
Then, came the golf. When the Nebraska Golf Association was formed in 1966, golf was booming in our state. One of those early leaders was Lochland Country Club in Hastings. Taking their lead was the aforementioned Columbus Elks, with Norfolk Country Club (expanding from 12 to 18 holes) and Fremont and Riverside in Grand Island (expanding from 9 to 18 holes) all in the space between 1960 and 1967.
Chris Wahlmeier Board President
This growth is seen in the playing sites for the Nebraska Amateur — being hosted this week at Fremont Golf Club for the fifth time. The championship was in Lincoln and Omaha exclusively until 1950, save one championship in Beatrice.
In the 1960s, the championship spread like wild fire across the state. Beatrice in 1961 and 1964, Skyview in 1963, Norfolk in 1969 and — in just it’s second summer — Lochland in 1966 when Bob Astleford won his seventh of eight Amateur titles.
Lochland — if you really dig — has a fantastic history.
In the late 1950s, J.M McDonald Jr. purchased an option on the Hohlen Farm north of Hastings. McDonald’s father grew up in Missouri and moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming in 1905 to help James Cash Penney operate his first store. By 1914, Penney had opened multiple stores across the United States and had promoted McDonald to New York City headquarters. He was named a vice president in 1921 before retiring in 1929.
What the heck does this have to do with Lochland? Well, in retirement McDonald maintained a consulting business for department stores. In 1934 he bought out a partner in the Brown-Ekberg store in Holdrege and moved to Nebraska. In 1936, the company moved their headquarters to Hastings and in 1948, McDonald, Jr. was named president.
With $500,000 of his own money, McDonald hired Illinois architect David Gill to route Lochland. He also added Red Cloud native and Nebraska golf hall-of-fame member Harry Obitz to his consulting staff to get Lochland off the
By 1960, he had 250 charter members (Hastings only had two nine-hole offerings at the time). The clubhouse was finished by the end of 1961 and nine holes in 1962 with the second nine opening in 1966 just before that Nebraska Amateur won by Astleford.
McDonald had hope to build the “finest private country club” between Omaha and Denver. A friend had suggested the name Lochland for the two lakes on the property as well as a nod to McDonald’s Scottish history. By 1967, he had sold the club back to its members for just $150,000. Over 60 years later, Lochland continues to thrive.
In two visits this golf season, the golf course has presented itself fabulously under superintendent Ryan Reifert. He oversees a golf course that has worked meticulously over the past ten years to “stay current” under a plan that began to be developed in 2002 by Lincoln-based architect Grant Wencel.
Gill presented a routing the flows every which way, only playing in the same direction on back-to-back holes at the 2nd and 3rd. (Some may argue 5-7 as well, but the doglegs at 5 and 7 change my mind.).
THE HOHLEN FARM: This 1956 aerial shows the land that JM McDonald, Jr. purchased to develop Lochland Country Club. The two lakes that define the golf course clearly visible in the center. (Historic Aerials)
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The golf course crescendos on the back nine, specifically the last six holes around the clubhouse. The 13th is a backbreaking par-4. The up-and-down 16th might be our favorite hole on the golf course and the mighty finish at 17 and 18 is one the player won’t soon forget.
But, what else do you get when you visit Lochland?
A thriving junior golf program spearheaded by head professional Ky Molholm; a membership that is constantly investing in great facilities (the pool that serves their families a highlight) and a club that is open and gives back. They share the annual Hastings Open with Southern Hills and allow public play as well ($60 with Nebraska Golf Passport).
And, since that first Nebraska Amateur in 1966? The club has hosted five more and they continue to host many championships and qualifiers for the Nebraska Golf Association and Nebraska Section PGA, including the US Senior Amateur qualifier later this month.
Like most clubs that support golf in Nebraska, Lochland grows the game the right way. And, just like J.M. McDonald, Jr. would have wanted, the golf course has stayed true to it’s roots in being a perfect place for members and their families to make memories and enjoy the game.
ACROSS THE POND: The 8th (foreground) and 3rd (behind) both play over water to protected greens. How many places would have ruined this view with a load of trees in between the greens? Not Lochland. (Harvest Sports / Tony Chapman)
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