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Article: County may dump course: South Mountain may be 'too difficult' for golfers
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 14, 2008
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Salt Lake County leaders have a love/hate relationship with the
South Mountain Golf Club.
One day they want it, the next they don't.
County leaders wanted the course so badly that in 1999 they paid
twice what they would have paid had another deal gone through in
1996.
Now the county is considering dumping the pricey course and
letting a private company run it instead.
It's quite a change from the past, when the county fought through
lawsuits and recriminations and a failed bid to buy the property to
eventually purchase it for $17 million in 1999.
Councilman Jeff Allen fears the course is too difficult for the
average Joe.
"It's a golf course that doesn't appeal to the general golf
public," ...