I took a lovely walk through Briarwood this morning with my dog. Maybe they ought to just leave it that way. It was certainly more pleasant walking under all those huge oaks, than suffering in the heat under the high-tension wires on the "Multi-Modal Path", without so much as a crepe myrtle to cast some shade.
But I noticed something odd. All of the dead greens and tees had obviously been aerated so recently that the grass hadn't had time to fill in the holes. Why would you aerate a lawn and then immediately kill it? I can think of three possible explanations:
1) We're in a drought and didn't have enough water to keep 40 par-three's green, so we sacrificed one up North.
2) The guy we hired cheap to ride the fertilizer machine doesn't read English and got the bags mixed up.
3) We had an extra quarter-million bucks sitting around and decided to pick the prettiest course out of 40 that didn't need renovation after the snowbirds went home, and just go ahead and renovate it.
Oh, well. I seem to be the only one here who cares, and I just got a great walking path out of the deal. Maybe next January, when some of my fellow Northies discover they can't get a tee time, there will be enough interest to revisit "The Mystery of the Murdered Golf Course".
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