Golf Course History
Memories to Last a Lifetime
Imagine the smell of freshly cut grass drifting through the air and numbered red flags waving in the breeze. You hear the quiet rumble of a golf cart engine and the sounds of laughter filling the broad land surrounding you. Can you guess the environment you are in? Well surely, a golf course. Although most may not be aware that there is much time and effort added into creating a golf course, Cindi Norton knows first hand that there is extensive amounts of hard work that goes into a project like this. In 1968, Stub and Barbara Baker agreed to purchase 120 acres of cow pasture and forest to be transformed into a golf course with Ralph and Joanne Nichols. According to Cindi, “both families loved to golf.” They would …show more content…
The families worked year-round burning brush and chopping trees down to clear the land for the tees, fairways, and holes. During the summer they would work on the fairways and there were always stones to pick. If there was a job Cindi and her sisters could handle, their parents would have them do it. While as the Bakers had no children at this time to assist them. The whole project took about five years to complete and open to the public. Her father was working as an appliance repair man and on the golf course at the same time. Cindi was about seven and was a petite young child with short, brown hair and glasses. This experience was when she first started to develop her diligent, hardworking spirit. Throughout her days there Cindi and her sisters, “spent most of their time playing in the creek behind their tent and exploring the areas of the golf course.” While assembling the golf course both families camped in what seemed to be a vast, ancient, and rectangular tent. Most nights they sat around the campfire and normally had family, friends, and neighbors that would camp at the golf course with them in the summer months. Shortly before the golf course was open to the public Ralph Nichols sold his share of the golf course to another person. Then finally in 1973 the golf course was open to the public. After assembling a golf course and working on one task for a long amount of time, Cindi found herself
Imagine the smell of freshly cut grass drifting through the air and numbered red flags waving in the breeze. You hear the quiet rumble of a golf cart engine and the sounds of laughter filling the broad land surrounding you. Can you guess the environment you are in? Well surely, a golf course. Although most may not be aware that there is much time and effort added into creating a golf course, Cindi Norton knows first hand that there is extensive amounts of hard work that goes into a project like this. In 1968, Stub and Barbara Baker agreed to purchase 120 acres of cow pasture and forest to be transformed into a golf course with Ralph and Joanne Nichols. According to Cindi, “both families loved to golf.” They would …show more content…
The families worked year-round burning brush and chopping trees down to clear the land for the tees, fairways, and holes. During the summer they would work on the fairways and there were always stones to pick. If there was a job Cindi and her sisters could handle, their parents would have them do it. While as the Bakers had no children at this time to assist them. The whole project took about five years to complete and open to the public. Her father was working as an appliance repair man and on the golf course at the same time. Cindi was about seven and was a petite young child with short, brown hair and glasses. This experience was when she first started to develop her diligent, hardworking spirit. Throughout her days there Cindi and her sisters, “spent most of their time playing in the creek behind their tent and exploring the areas of the golf course.” While assembling the golf course both families camped in what seemed to be a vast, ancient, and rectangular tent. Most nights they sat around the campfire and normally had family, friends, and neighbors that would camp at the golf course with them in the summer months. Shortly before the golf course was open to the public Ralph Nichols sold his share of the golf course to another person. Then finally in 1973 the golf course was open to the public. After assembling a golf course and working on one task for a long amount of time, Cindi found herself