Michigan Golf News, November 12, 2010

__/__/__/__/__/__/___/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/ __/__/ Michigan Golfer Magazine 2010 Fall Issue http://michigangolfer.com/fall10/ Past Issues http://michigangolfer.com/#pastissues Michigan Golfer Television Michigan Golfer Channel http://michigangolfer.tv Michigan Golfer You Tube Channel http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?pi=0&ps=100&sf=added&sa=0&sq=golfer&dm=2 Michigan Golf News Subscribe http://lyris.dundee.net/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=michigangolfnews __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/__/ __/ __/ __/__/ __/ __/__/ __/ __/ __/ ===================================== SPRING MEADOWS CC HISTORY REVISED ===================================== Art, I am enjoying your Michigan Golf History by the decades. It is very interesting reading and by the way, in your listing of the architect for Spring Meadows CC in Linden ( I have been a member since 1973) you list Bill Newcomb as the architect but should be Larry Packard, who built it in conjunction with Wadsworth construction out of Chicago area. Larry, who is still alive to my knowledge, lives at Innisbrook in Tarpon Springs, FL were he designed all four courses. We had him come to Spring Meadows CC in 2003 for a "Larry Packard Day". He was 90 then.

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Fritz Balmer Editor's Note: Thanks Fritz, I wrote that Michigan Golf History 10 years ago http://michigangolfer.com/history.html . At the time the Internet, while helpful, was not the powerhouse it is now. Every now and then, I think about redoing the series with the help of the many great online search engines, but the enormity of the task has caused me to pause. Here is the latest on Larry Packard http://golfarchitects.lib.msu.edu/packardel/packardelbio.htm Larry Packard's Michigan History Courses Designed Leslie Park Golf Course - Ann Arbor - 1967 Bay City Country Club - Bay City - 1965 Hampshire Country Club - Dowagiac - 1961 Pine Grove Country Club - Iron Mountain L'Anse Golf Course - L'Anse- 1962 Spring Meadows Country Club- Linden - 1965 Courses Remodeled Menominee Country Club. Menominee, Michigan