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sdandrea1 Golf course?

Yes there is a 9 hole golf course. It used to be one of the best kept courses in the area but 3 consecutive years of multiple floods set it back a long ways. We lost a lot of members while the course was closed due to water sitting on it. I, myself didn't join for three years because I knew we were only going to be open for half of the season at most. The grass on eight of the nine holes died, fairways and rough. We were just holding on financially even before that due to the downturn in popularity of golf overall. I thought the course would close permanently but it held on due to the donations of several members. I rejoined this year because finally there is enough grass to play again. It's still got a long way to go.
I don't know if it will ever get back to the beautiful course it used to be. The only reason it was able to come back at all was the donations and because it sets on land owned by the city and we received quite a bit of FEMA money because of the flooding. That money went to repairing one of the bridges that was lost in the flooding. A creek winds through the course making you play beside or across water on eight of the nine holes. On some of the holes you play both across and beside water. There are five bridges on the course. Erosion has been quite a problem and much of the money FEMA
provided went to adding more rip rapping (rocks placed on the banks of the creek to prevent/stop the erosion). The course never used to flood this badly because a narrow bridge just upstream of the course acted as sort of a damn, only letting so much water through at once but the county replaced that bridge with a new modern wide bridge and did a lot of work on the creek bed upstream. Now a small private bridge on a farm driveway just downstream of the course is the first blockage and water backs up onto the course whenever there is a big rain. it's too bad. It used to be a beautiful little course. It's not like there aren't enough courses close by. Within about a forty minute drive there are nine more courses. I joined another course during the past three seasons but it's sure a lot nicer driving only a little over a mile to get to this course that driving elsewhere, even the closest course is only about 15 minutes away and the next closest is just 20 minutes away.