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Article: GOLF COURSE REDESIGN PLANNED BY WHALEN MAYOR SAYS LAST 9 HOLES HARD TO WALK.(Local)

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November 11, 1987
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Byline: Deborah Gesensway Staff writer

Golfers who stay away from the Albany Municipal Golf Course because they would rather spend more time putting and less time hiking up and down ravines could have reason to return next year.

Albany Mayor Thomas M. Whalen III said Tuesday he has hired professional engineers and architects to design a new back nine for the golf course off New Scotland Avenue along the Normans Kill.

"You have to be either in extremely good shape or a mountain goat" to be able to play the second nine holes at the course, Whalen said. Those holes are laid out across several ravines that cut up a slope on the northwest side of the ...

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