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repair any damages, course Superintendent
Matt Gomez said.
"This is a late spring for us,'' Gomez said,
noting the town-owned course has opened to
limited play as early as the first week in March.
In Hartford, Goodwin Park's 27-hole
course was set to reopen last week to
"course-walkers only" to give the soggy
turf extra time to dry out before motorized
carts are allowed, said city Public Works
Superintendent Tom Baptist. The city spent
about $800,000 to patch the balky irrigation
and drainage systems, and shore up greens
and fairways "that were quickly headed to
unplayable condition,'' Baptist said.
Worse off was Hartford's 18-hole Keney
Golf Course, Baptist said, which is close to
wrapping up an extensive, year-long makeover
that cost more than $8 million and is projected
to reopen sometime after July 1, he said.
The city of Hartford previously fired the
troubled operator of Goodwin and Keney
and took over their operations for the first
time in more than 25 years. It also has spent
millions improving their greens, fairways
and facilities. The city hired consultants to
help oversee improvements that will enable
both to provide "a high-quality golf experi-
ence," Baptist said.
Wooing business
Goodwin's and Keney's greens fees are
among the least expensive in the Hartford
region, which fits with the city's aim to inspire
more novices to take up the game, Baptist
said. Goodwin participates in the "The First
Tee'' program that introduces golf to youth.
Like other golf clubs, the city's course oper-
ators are weighing ideas to draw in novices and
for occasional golfers to increase their play, as
well as ways to speed the game, which still
takes about four hours to play 18 holes.
Berlin's Shuttle Meadow is relocating
some drive tees to speed play and make
the game more enjoyable, with the hopes of
boosting membership or drawing more play-
ers to lift its operating bottom line.
The Manchester Country Club last year
introduced "Play 9 and Wine'' events to entice
female golfers that were "a success,'' Gomez
said. In addition to its longstanding junior-
golfer program and "good-student'' discounts,
the 98-year-old course several years ago began
enticing under-30 executives with a discounted
membership for under $100 per month.
The result, Gomez said, is that the Man-
chester golf club's approximately 300-mem-
ber roster has grown since the Great Reces-
sion, mainly through word of mouth.
"We've increased our membership over
the last six or seven years,'' he said. "We have
a good membership and they're bringing in a
good group of people.'' n
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