State-owned golf courses could be self-supporting if an additional $6 million is appropriated for improvements and marketing, lawmakers were told Tuesday.

The House Appropriations and Budget Committee's Natural Resources and Regulatory Services Subcommittees is reviewing House Interim Study 99-1, in which Reps. Randall Lee Erwin, D-Nashoba, and Joe Hutchison, D-Jay, requested a study of how state lodges and golf courses operate. Erwin chairs the natural resources subcommittee, and Rep. Mike Mass, D-Hartshorne, chairs the regulatory services subcommittee.

Erwin noted that there has been talk in recent years either that the golf courses should be privatized or the state should make a ...