Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Chalk Mountain, the county's 27-year-old golf course in Atascadero, is in such bad shape that it is losing golfers to other courses and may be on the road to closure, according to a new report.
The county may have to get out of the golf course business altogether because of declining use and deteriorating income, warns the grim report prepared for the Board of Supervisors.
The General Services Department are asking for a one-time, $350,000 infusion of cash to fix problems at Chalk Mountain. But in doing so, they have raised a major policy question: Should the county use taxpayers' money to subsidize golf? Until now, the courses have paid for themselves.
Depending on how the supervisors answer that question, they could end up closing one or more of their three courses, which also include Dairy Creek and Morro Bay Golf Course.
In Chalk Mountain's heyday, the early to mid-1990s, approximately 80,000 golfers a year played a round. Today that number has slipped below 40,000.
Article:
County-run course low on green, The Tribune
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San Luis Obispo Central Coast GolfLabels: Chalk Mountain, Golf Courses