New golf course opens near Deep Creek Lake, Md.

From the San Fransisco Examiner (how cool is that, they picked up this story?)Associated Press
06/01/10 9:50 AM PDT


SWANTON, MD. — Garrett County has a third public golf course in the Deep Creek Lake area.

Operators of the Thousand Acres Lakeside Golf Club near Swanton say the front nine holes opened for play last weekend. Construction of the back nine continues.

The course is on the southeastern lake shore in a development planned for about 300 homes, a clubhouse and restaurant.

The county's other public courses are at the Wisp resort and the Oakland Golf Club in Oakland

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/nation/new-golf-course-opens-near-deep-creek-lake-md-95329244.html#ixzz0piF0A7iT


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Thousand Acres Golf Course Update from Bill Franklin

I received an email update from Bill Franklin on the progress of the new golf course at Thousand Acres:

"The front nine should be completed this fall with a planned opening summer of ’09 with the back nine to follow the next year. Golf holes 3,4,5,6, and 9 have been sodded around the greens, bunkers, and tees. There are a couple pics of the 8 bridges that cross the streams and wetlands in Thousand Acres….as a side note our wetland impacts are zero except for the bridge posts. Fairway and rough seeding is ongoing. As many of you know we have been talking about the golf course for 15 years or so with actual work on the ground the last three years…..clearing and grubbing, moving dirt, installing golf course drainage and irrigation, building roads and stormwater structures, building the irrigation pond and all the other stuff that goes into building a golf course. Three weeks ago the first tractor trailer load of sod arrives and in three hours the ground starts to look like a golf course….remarkable contrast."

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