8A - The Morrisville and Preston Progress, Wednesday, May 24,1995
Improvements being
made at golf course
are in full swing
By November, tbe grand plan at
Prestonwood Country Club will be
complete, with three 18 hole golf
courses available for play.
With nine holes closed for
renovation, and nine new holes un
der construction, members have
been travelling a maze-like path
around the club playing two 18
hole courses.
By the fail, each of the three
courses at Prestonwood, The Fair
ways, The Highlands and The
Meadows will be complete courses,
bringing the number of holes at the
club to 54.
The Fairways opened with nine
bole in August 1988, followed by
the first nine holes of The
Highlands in November of 1988,
and the first nine holes of The
Meadows in August 1990.
Don Thomas, general manager,
says the eight new holes under con
struction on the far northwest sec
tion of the club’s property will be
unlike the any of the other golf
holes at the country club. "They’ll
be more like coastal golf holes,"
said Thomas. " With marsh and a
creek running through most of the
holes they’ll be unlike any we have
here."
Eight of the new holes, will be
connected to The Meadows course,
while a new par three is being
added between the first and second
holes on The Fairways to round out
that course.
Vance Heaftier, director of golf at
Prestonwood, is excited about the
eight new holes being added to The
Meadows. "It’ll be one of the better
courses in the Triangle area," said
Heafiier.
The architect of the new holes,
Tom Jackson of Greenville, S.C.
has 93 courses to his credit, with
one course recently rated by Sports
Illustrated magazine as the fourth
most scenic in America. The Cliffs
of Glassy located outside of Green
ville, S.C. was ranked just behind
Augusta National in scenic tqjpeal.
The new eight holes are located
in a flood plain area and will cover
6.5 acres of wetlands. With a creek
that comes into play on nearly
every hole, and with marshy areas
bcffdering the fairways the lay out
will have a challenging, coastal
feel, said Thomas.
A new halfway house is planned
for tbe new back nine of The
Meadows, including a cart shed
which will allow players to start on
the 10th tee during busy times.
Players will access the halfway
house via the Morrisville Parkway
on a road the club will budd.
The planned halfway house on
Tbe Meadows, and one set for con
struction on The Highlands course
as well, will allow for starting
times at five different points at
Prestonwood instead of the three
starting tees available now.
Jeff Guman, golf professional at
Prestonwood said most members
want early morning starting times
on week-ends and the new halfway
houses will give his golf staff the
ability to get more players on the
golf courses faster.
Construction of both halfway
houses will be done once sewer ser
vice is available.
Price tag on tbe course construe-
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION-Jeff Guman, golf professional at
Prestonwood, stands atop a small mountain of dirt which over
looks portions of eight new golf holes being built now off the Mor-
risvitle Parkway. They’re planned to open in November.
don and renovation is $2.5 million
said Thomas.
The nine holes under renovation
on The Highlands wiU re-open in
August. Being the second set of
nine holes opened at Prestonwood,
the famihar stretch of holes will
present players with new twists.
The seventh hole, a par three, has
been renovated and the green is
now an island green with a wood
bridge accessing it. "It will be the
signature hole out here,” said
Guman.
The ditch which ran the length of
the left side of #16 has been piped
and filled, and the green has been
moved to the left. On #15 the tee
has been moved aaoss the dam
where there once was a gully, and
the fairway has been lowered some
six feet. Thomas said the changes
were done to take houses bordering
the hole out of play. The cart path
now goes up the left side of the
hole instead of the right.
The green on #14 has been re
done, and the fairway on #13 has
been moved to the left, and lowered
four feet to meet spillway require
ments by Wake County for the
water control lake left of the hole.
Morrisville community center passes offer savings
Want to take a swim or use any of
the facilities a few times a year at
the Morrisville Community Center?
If so, you’ll be paying a higher
fee than a year ago, but you can en
joy savings by buying a pass good
for six months or one year.
Daily fees adopted in April by the
Town Board of Commissioners are
$1.50 for residents and $3.00 for
non-residents. That’s an increase
from 50 cents for residents and
$1.50 for non-residents.
For residents, six-month passes
are $65 for individuals, $98 for a
family of two, $124 for a family of
three, and $146 for a family of four
or more. Passes are double those
amounts for non-residents.
Shiloh Park lights up
Folks can now play softball and
baseball at night, pitch horseshoes
and enjoy new playground equip
ment at Shiloh Park in Morrisville.
The lights at the adult softball and
little league baseball field were in
stalled in April at a cost of $32,500,
with the county picking up $15,000
of the tab and the town the remain-
dw.
Alan Carroll, director of the
Parks, Recreation and Cultural
Resources Department, said the
five light towers and night play will
make broader participation possible
for both adults and youngsters.
Shiloh, with a 150-foot field, is
the second park to get lights. Mor
risville Elementary School, which
has a 300-foot field, added lights
18 months ago.
For aficionados of horseshoes,
Shiloh now offers six regulation
horseshoe pits. Residents can check
out horseshoes at the Luther Green
Center during lunch Monday
through Friday and on Wednesday
afternoons. The pits also will be the
site of league and tournament play.
Playground equipment also has
been added at the park, including a
deep rung arch climber, a steering
wheel on a platform, horizontal
Preston courts
to open June 3
The opening of three new all
weather courts at Prestonwood
Country Club in June will allow for
year round tennis play by members,
according to general manager Don
Thomas.
The new courts are slated for play
June 3, bringing the total of courts
at Prestonwood to nine. The new
courts and lights, cost $40,000 each
to build. Their padded, asphalt sur
face is suited to year round play be
cause they don’t fireeze or pose
other maintenance problems.
The club’s other six courts have
composition surfaces and can be
made unplayable by wet or fteezing
weather. "TTiere are so many days
in the winter that it’ll fi'eeze at
night, but get up into the 40’s dur
ing the day - and tennis being such
an active spOTt - people want to
play," said Thomas. The new courts
will provide that opportunity as
well as be tbe spot where tennis
lessons are given.
loop ladder, spiral climber, crawl
tube and three slides. The equip
ment is made of galvanized pipe
and painted blue, yellow and tan.
For non-residents, six-month
passes are $130 for individuals,
$196 for a family of two, $248 for
a family of three, and $292 for a
family or four or more.
Annual passes offer great
savings. For residents, annual
passes are $100 for individuals,
$150 for a family of two, $190 for
a family of three and $225 for a
family of four or more. Non
resident annual passes are double
those amounts.
Swunming pool passes for a 16-
week season are $45 for individual
residents, $60 for a family of two,
$67 for a family of three and $75
for a family of four or more. Non
resident swimming passes are dou
ble those amounts.
The Community Center is open
for general use Monday through
Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Satur
day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and
Sunday from 1 to 6 p.m.
The swimming pool will be open
through SepL 10. Pool hours are
noon to 8 • p.m. Monday through
Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday
and 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday.
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