In Bounds
by Jack MacKenzie, CGCS
area high school golf teams. The local courses are also host to card groups in the winter, holiday feasts, weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, Outstanding Easter egg hunts, bonfires and an conditions. Tidy tee boxes occasional romantic evening walk. and service areas, smooth cart path surfaces, manicured and practically As your Executive Director and facilitator in creating memorable weed free fairways, groomed and outreach and exposure golf events, playable bunkers, manageable I have yet to be dissatisfied with a roughs and firm and true green host club. Certainly the persistent surfaces with a cleanly cut and rain at CGCS Norma O’eary’s painted cup as a finishing touch. course near the shore of Lake Superior was dampening to say No, not a high-end private country the least…but what a beautiful club, not a middle of the road metro public track, or a posh resort piece of property with multiple creek crossings. The extreme destination. I am talking about wet chill of a late fall day didn’t the too infrequently considered, hometown and out-state golf course. impact the fine conditions Jeremy The recreational summer time port Chmielewski proffered at a recent Badgerland outing. In bad weather of call for the Kiwanis or Lions and in good, the superintendents Club, the VFW pig roast palace, and staff at all of our member clubs a local sportsman’s organization do an outstanding job providing monthly raffle scramble and the their guests memorable golfing competitive regulation course for How do they do it?
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