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Article: Officials speak out in defense of community golf courses
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- February 19, 2009
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Seven years ago, Craig Swen usually had the Bon Air Golf Course
in Moon pretty much to himself -- even at the height of summer.
This winter -- on rare days when the temperature has been above
freezing and there is no snow on the ground -- Swen and his father
were closely followed by other golfers at the course, renamed as the
Moon Golf Club after the township bought it in 2003.
If popular notion says public ownership often means inefficiency,
Swen says that's not the case in Moon, where the golf course breaks
even and is run by trained professionals.
"It is now manicured so that it looks like a golf course. Before,
the grass was high and the fairways were full of clover and things
that ...