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hmmmnoidea 
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Posted on: Dec. 22 2007,4:41 pm |
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he can buy it back within a year but he has to pay all the money that anybody puts into it. So the buyer wont lose any money If he does reclaims it
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GEOKARJO
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Posted on: Dec. 24 2007,11:37 am |
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Rumor has it a new developer will step forward and has plans to turn it back into a golf course possible name of the project could be Tiger Woods.
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Eddie Cochran's Ghost
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Posted on: Dec. 26 2007,7:29 am |
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(gary grobowski @ Dec. 22 2007,5:07 pm)
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(usmcr @ Dec. 07 2007,8:13 am)
QUOTE "nontraditional golfers"  ??? didn't know there was such a thing! i have golfed for over 30 years or so, most of those years at green lea. i now golf at oak veiw out by freeborn. it is a very friendly & accessible golf course of which both myself & wife enjoy playing. i have golfed at the c.c. but very infrequently. the times i was there i found it to be stuffy like "what are you doing here" type of mentality! the downfall of the c.c. in my opinion started when the manufacturing firms either left town or downsized. it was a gradual thing, like when the mom & pop stores were forced out of business & decimated the down town area. during its heyday the c.c. bustled with top management, middle management & the store owners. it was the place to be for them. unfortunately these numbers dwindled & so did the membership. the c.c. in my opinion did not reach out to the general population & consequently became stagnant. there have been many opportunities to make a go of the c.c. but they have all revolved around the idea of a private club. going the route of a public course could have been a viable choice. i guess what i am trying to say is what goes around comes around & bites one in the arse! green areas are a definite asset to an area & it is indeed a shame to see this destroyed in such a manner!! time will tell what will become of this site but for now & the foreseeable future it will be a reminder of the past glory days. this reminds me of an old saying "adapt or perish". I always thought the CC was over rated, especially when it was a nine hole course. I really never let some people being pompous bother me. Green Lea was always better. Freeborn is maturing into a better course, but not really in the same league as either the CC or Green Lea.
I agree that it was overrated in the 9-hole days. I can't speak to it after that as I had never played the back nine. To the CC's defense in the 9-hole days, it was kept in better shape than Green Lea during some of Greengo's days. The sad thing is that the numbers of people playing golf started to really grow in the past twenty years or so. I believe CC would still be alive today if they had modified their private club status to attract more people to play and spend money. AL and the surrounding area should be large enough to support two golf clubs.
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shaker
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Posted on: Dec. 27 2007,6:46 pm |
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A person could go out and play their, but there were still enough elete a$$ holes that let you know you wern't where you should be 
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Eddie Cochran's Ghost
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Posted on: Dec. 27 2007,9:46 pm |
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(gary grobowski @ Dec. 26 2007,11:45 pm)
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(Eddie Cochran's Ghost @ Dec. 26 2007,7:29 am)
QUOTE The sad thing is that the numbers of people playing golf started to really grow in the past twenty years or so. I believe CC would still be alive today if they had modified their private club status to attract more people to play and spend money. AL and the surrounding area should be large enough to support two golf clubs. I could be wrong, but it has been years since it was ran like a true country club. The handful of time I played it in the past 20 years I was able to walk on and pay to play. In fact, I am not sure that it was ever ran like a true country club.
Years ago I'm pretty certain that the public couldn't play unless you were with a member. They may have changed that policy in the mid-80's as I didn't bother to be concerned with it after that time period.
Even though Green Lea was my home course, my only ace was at the CC so it will always hold a special place in my heart.
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january
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Posted on: Dec. 28 2007,5:13 pm |
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I believe the problem with the Country Club
is that it was perceived as an elitist establishment.
It was primarily a private club and then when the memberships could not financially sustain its viability the doors were opened to the public.
Perhaps a marketing campaign could have ushered in more people but the stigma was firmly planted and by then, the damage had been done and it was too little too late.
I do not golf but attended a couple of events there and it was beautiful.
It is gone now but the clubhouse was a lovely place for wedding receptions.
I hope that progress of some kind can be made on the landscape.
I personally am a bit worried because the economic forecast looks dismal for 2008-2009
Lesson learned is that inclusion and acceptance of all people is not only good for the human spirit and for good citizenship but also for economic gain
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grassman
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Posted on: Dec. 29 2007,2:28 pm |
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A friend lof mine used to bartend there along time ago, he said there was alot " wannabe millionaires" with their noses in the air. But to get them to pay their bar bill, like pulling teeth.
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