Golfers' needed! Not to play golf but to assist in giving the game of golf a boost in the Austin area. How? The city of Austin has a large land area called the Walter E. Long Metropolitan Park located in east Austin just west of State Highway 130. The property includes over 3,500 acres of parkland and over 1,100 acre lake and the city is conducting a survey to get help in deciding whether golf should be part of their master plan.
At the most recent meeting of the city planners in which the public was invited for comment, fewer than a dozen golfers showed up while the audience was well populated with disc golfers, fisherman, and other partisan citizens. But golfers have a second chance to try to influence the thinking and the planning of the city officials. This comes in the form of a new survey that the ASGA is urging its members to complete.
This is urgent and necessary if golfers wish to have a new course available to them for future use. Fishermen were there in mass and they look at the golf courses as poisoning the fish with the runoff from watering the course. Although Kevin Gomillion, an official with the city golf department, set this issue straight there are numerous other harmful myths out there that people believe about golf.
Therefore it is essential that golfers respond and complete the survey before November 14th.
Here are a few tips when filling out the survey.
1) One of the first golf questions is about the 36 hole course, with one of them PGA quality course. Select VERY IMPORTANT
2) A later question asks about GolfATX public course and how important that is to you. Select VERY IMPORTANT.
3) Use the comments section to list any other thoughts you feel are important. They are reading each of the comments.
At the most recent meeting of the city planners in which the public was invited for comment, fewer than a dozen golfers showed up while the audience was well populated with disc golfers, fisherman, and other partisan citizens. But golfers have a second chance to try to influence the thinking and the planning of the city officials. This comes in the form of a new survey that the ASGA is urging its members to complete.
This is urgent and necessary if golfers wish to have a new course available to them for future use. Fishermen were there in mass and they look at the golf courses as poisoning the fish with the runoff from watering the course. Although Kevin Gomillion, an official with the city golf department, set this issue straight there are numerous other harmful myths out there that people believe about golf.
Therefore it is essential that golfers respond and complete the survey before November 14th.
Here are a few tips when filling out the survey.
1) One of the first golf questions is about the 36 hole course, with one of them PGA quality course. Select VERY IMPORTANT
2) A later question asks about GolfATX public course and how important that is to you. Select VERY IMPORTANT.
3) Use the comments section to list any other thoughts you feel are important. They are reading each of the comments.
Here is the link (click on the address below and then on the URL that pops up):http://www.austintexas.gov/
Scroll down to middle of page to "Take Survey #3”
Scroll down to middle of page to "Take Survey #3”
Please spread the word, so we get more than 70 golfers to respond. Get your spouse, relatives, and friends to complete a survey as well. We need to have the survey reflect our desire for another golf course in Austin.
