Ever since longtime Spur golf course manager Mike Day met with the Spur city council a few months ago to discuss his eventual retirement, golfers from all around who appreciate the sociability and challenging play on the course have been looking for options to keep it going.
According to frequent golfer Woodie McArthur, they’ve arrived at a plan.
The 66 regular players met October 14, according to McArthur, and elected a board of seven directors as a first step to forming an official dues-paying membership association. They elected officers on October 21 and expect to organize the Spur Golf Course Association as a nonprofit organization soon.
The course, first laid out and landscaped in the mid-1930s with the help of the Works Progress Administration, has always been owned by the City of Spur, which in recent years has contracted with Day to manage and maintain it. Day has invested in equipment at his personal expense, which the new club plans to acquire upon his retirement sometime in 2022.
The club will assist Day in maintaining the course until such time, and plans to make an official request to the Spur City Council to then turn over management to the association.
The Spur course’s original greens were sand, said McArthur. They were seeded with grass some decades ago by a group including Eric Swenson, Jean Hoover, Bill Hoover, and Everett Martin. Today, the course is an affordable and scenic destination for golfers in nearby cities as well as hometown residents. It’s surprisingly tricky and fun, too, for golfers accustomed to smooth greens and long fairways of larger city or private courses.
The association hopes to attract younger golfers and also to help those who would like to learn the game, with a membership goal of 100 to sustain a paid manager and greenskeeper. They anticipate providing instruction at no charge.
The association is in the process of forming committees an drafting by-laws. Members will meet again Nov. 10 at 6 p.m. at the clubhouse.
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