REED CITY — Golf courses in Osceola County are now open after Governor Whitmer’s lifting of restrictions 10 day ago.
But course owners realize they would be facing challenges, especially regarding not being able to use motorized carts.
In Osceola County, the Birch Valley Golf Course of Evart, the Intimidator of Hawkins, Spring Valley Golf Course of Reed City and Tustin Trails Golf Course confirmed they were open for business. Other county courses were not available for comment.
Owners of The Intimidator Golf Course, a 9-hole facility, 2 ½ miles west of Hawkins on East 17 Mile Road, are Mark and Tracy Lenahan.
Tracy said the course is open seven days a week as long as it’s not raining or snowing.
The Intimidator has had leagues but Lenahan acknowledged, as have other courses, the inability to use carts could affect golfer turnout and the ability to have leagues.
“The league we have has 22 teams and that’s 44 golfers,” Lenahan said. “With the restrictions we have now, I think it will be hard to start leagues. We’re waiting to see what will happen. We’d like to get started because the leagues are where it’s at.”
But not being able to use carts will make league play a challenge.
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Golfers prepare to tee off at hole No. 1 on Saturday at Birch Valley Golf Course in Evart. (Pioneer photoi/John Raffel)
Golfers prepare to tee off at hole No. 1 on Saturday at Birch Valley Golf Course in Evart. (Pioneer photoi/John Raffel)
Golfers prepare to tee off at hole No. 1 on Saturday at Birch Valley Golf Course in Evart. (Pioneer photoi/John Raffel)
Golfers prepare to tee off at hole No. 1 on Saturday at Birch Valley Golf Course in Evart. (Pioneer photoi/John Raffel)
“We have some seniors who play on our Thursday league who can’t physically walk the course,” Lenahan said.
“Right now, it’s only open golf.
“We were busy (on opening day),” Lenahan said. “It was nice to see. We don’t have any employees. It’s just my husband and myself who do it all out here. I don’t have a dining facility but we have a nice clubhouse. We do offer hot dogs and chips and stuff like that when we get going in the summer. Right now, I can’t do any of that. They just sent some clarification we can’t sell pop or anything like that. You can’t have it in a pop machine. They don’t want anyone touching anything.”
Birch Valley Golf Course of Evart, located at the northeast corner of the US-10 and M-66 intersection, was set to open last Friday.
“But without power carts, they’ll be walking,” owner Lynn Bay said. “But that’s the plan.”
He and other golf course owners have said carts are basically essential for having leagues.
“We have one league that’s going to walk (if carts aren’t allowed),” he said. “Right now we’re not having the leagues start, tentatively, until carts can be used.”
The league he’s referring to is a “show up league,” he said. “It’s different people. All our leagues are nine holes.”
The plan also is to be open from sunrise to sunset seven days a week.
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