Aberdeen golf course reaches 19th hole

Golfers won’t be taking their clubs to Aberdeen any more, as the company running the operation has closed it up, not for the season but forever. Chris Bebek, general manager of the Aberdeen Highlands Development Corp., said Monday the cold and wet golfing season this year coupled with the fact there were only two more years in the lease https://www.about-healths.com/ with the City cheap softball jerseys custom sealed the deal on the course’s fate. “This year was particularly a bad year, it was such a late spring. We lost almost two months at the beginning of the season,” she said. “But the numbers about-healths.com ever since we took over have been dwindling. It’s at the point where economics wise it was a big struggle for us.” The course was pared down from 18 holes to nine as it was sold off in recent years for future development. Shrinking the size of the course spelled the beginning of the end, Bebek said. “The catalyst was when it went down to a nine hole course,” she said. Another factor was that new golf courses opened up in the area. “There was a lot of competition.” Aberdeen Highlands had a five year lease with the City to run the course. It’s been three years. Bebek said her company had to do some subdivision work that meant digging up one of the greens and crossing two fairways with heavy equipment. Repairing that afterward for another golf season would have been costly for a course with only two years left. “For us, it was hard to justify putting a lot of new money into the course when it only had a short life cheap stock jerseys to it,” she said. “The cost to replace that for another two years, and dwindling memberships and usage. . . . It was pretty clear we were having a hard time.” Now that the course is permanently closed, plans to convert some of it into park space can kick into high gear. “But by the same token, I’m quite excited we can move forward with the park and all the facilities/amenities it will have. I think it will be a huge plus for all the residents of Aberdeen,” said Bebek. City parks, culture and recreation director Byron McCorkell said he cheap san diego chargers apparel received notification Monday morning from Aberdeen Highlands about the golf course’s fate. “It doesn’t really change the ultimate outcome for that area, it does change the timeline,” he said. Designs to convert the cheap san francisco 49ers jersey golf course into parkland will now begin, and construction should be in full swing in 2013, he said. “We’ve got world cup kevin durant jersey cheap jerseys cheap money in the budget to proceed with construction.”