“Get your golf questions answered in new features debuting this month” plus 3 more |
- Get your golf questions answered in new features debuting this month
- Tamarac delays hearing on Woodmont golf course plans
- Golf club to lift fees by $150
- Oregon Ducks lunch links: More on QB battle; Drew Wiley to leave; Aaron Brooks up for NBA honor; huge golf win; more
| Get your golf questions answered in new features debuting this month Posted: 14 Apr 2010 09:52 AM PDT By Plain Dealer staffApril 14, 2010, 12:40PM
 Bud Shaw  Tim RogersDo you need help with your golf swing or have a question about local golf? Get your questions answered in new features starting later this month when a weekly local golf page debuts on April 28. Columnist Bud Shaw will get readers' swing questions answered by local pros in his weekly "Ask the Pro" instruction video. E-mail your questions to golf@plaind.com. Reporter Tim Rogers will answer readers' local golf questions in his weekly "Hey, TR!" column. Submit your questions online at cleveland.com/hey-tr. Look for the local golf page starting April 28 and continuing every Wednesday through the end of August. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Tamarac delays hearing on Woodmont golf course plans Posted: 14 Apr 2010 10:49 AM PDT The City Hall meeting scheduled for Wednesday night to discuss turning a Woodmont golf course into housing has been delayed two weeks. The new date is April 28, at the same time, 6 p.m. Woodmont owner Mark Schmidt said the reason for the postponement is a legal glitch. The law requires neighboring residents to receive written notice from the developer of any proposed land use change. If somebody didn't get proper notice, and there is action on the proposal, it could be successfully challenged in court. "We want to double-check, triple-check, quadruple-check," said Schmidt. "Missing one person could come to bite us one month, one year from now. It wouldn't be worth it. A name might have been missed. We'd rather be safe than sorry." Hundreds of Woodmont residents who have hired a law firm to fight the plans were expected to protest at Wednesday night's meeting. If Schmidt's rezoning request is granted, the Pines golf course will be developed with 255 single-family homes and nearly 61,000 square feet of commercial space. The residents recently formed "Save Woodmont Inc." to raise money for representation by the law firm Becker & Poliakoff. Wednesday's cancellation does not affect a meeting scheduled for Thursday night at City Hall. That second proposal would close the Glades course at Colony West and turn it into 375 townhouses and two-story condos and nearly 52,000 square feet of commercial space. In March, the city's planning board voted to deny the Woodmont Country Club rezoning request, but approved the one at Colony West, provided the developer build fewer residences. Since then, the number has been cut from 422 to 375 homes. Commissioners can accept or reject a planning board recommendation. Once the commission OKs a plan, it goes to the county and state for more hearings. Lisa J. Huriash can be reached at lhuriash@SunSentinel.com or 954-572-2008. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Golf club to lift fees by $150 Posted: 14 Apr 2010 11:27 AM PDT
MEMBERSHIP fees at the Albury Commercial Golf Club are set to rise by a third. A letter sent by Commercial Club chief executive Bruce Duck to the course's 450 members earlier this month outlined the reasons for the $150 increase, from $450 to $600. "The golf resort, whilst it has been cash-flow positive for the first eight months of the trading year, it has recorded a financial trading loss and ... will finish with a loss in excess of $100,000 for the full financial year," he wrote. "The costs associated with providing the best golf course along the Murray continue to increase and there are both capital and maintenance items which will require attention over the coming years." Mr Duck's letter identified some of those works as including an upgrade to the bore used to water the course, replacing course machinery, and works involving a perimeter security fence and paths for golf carts. Membership renewal forms for the course's 450 members are sent out this month. The club's longest-serving member said the price rise was "reasonable". &ldqu o;We've got a good golf course and golf courses eat money," Albury golfer Greg Howard said. Mr Howard has been a member of the Albury Commercial Golf Club since April 1, 1948. "It seems to me to be a reasonable increase to maintain a golf course that we all share and enjoy," he said. "It is a business enterprise; someone's got to pay for it." Mr Howard's honorary membership, which had seen him enjoy 10 years without paying fees because of his lengthy involvement, was revoked about two years ago. Mr Duck said the only feedback he had received over the fee increase had been positive. "The club is trading in a cash-flow positive position; we're just looking forward to the future rather than waiting for the future to come to us," he said. "The future viability of the golf resort as a going concern is not in question." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Posted: 14 Apr 2010 10:37 AM PDT By Mike Tokito, The OregonianApril 14, 2010, 10:32AMSpring football continues, as does the basketball coach search, and golf gets a huge victory. Here's what up:FOOTBALL
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