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Old 01-22-2023, 01:36 PM
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Default Championship next to turnpike.
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Originally Posted by bjansson View Post
You have to consider the hazards of putting an executive course that close to the freeway. The fairways are a lot longer on an Executive course and you really have to belt that ball out there to get to the green. If that ball went awry you might hit someone on the freeway accidently. So in lieu of putting up great big nets to protect the freeway drivers the developer gets to save land and build more houses.

When they start developing the land farther away from the freeway I'm sure they will add more executive courses south of 44.
They built Southern Oaks next to the turnpike. You could hit any club and hit a car on the turnpike.