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FORE! Denver Golf is Hiring
Whether you prefer providing top-notch customer service in the Pro Shop or operating a mower in the early mornings out on a beautiful course, there is a golf job for you at the City and County of Denver. There are job openings in many areas of golf operations. Flexible schedules seven days a week, golf privileges and a great work culture are a few of the benefits you will receive working with Denver Golf. These jobs are ideal for those seeking up to 39 hours per week, a flexible schedule and a passion for working in golf! Apply on the Denver Jobs website (search: GOLF). Share this information with friends and family who may be interested!
EVENTS
Visit The First Tee of Denver at the Denver Golf Expo February 9-11 Buy your 2018 Denver Golf Passes at the Expo, Booth 215
Denver Golf Passes will be on sale for a limited time at the Denver Golf Expo this weekend. A portion of the proceeds from the Denver Golf Passes go to benefit The First Tee of Denver! Come Play and Walk Pass - $225
• Includes (20) Twenty 9-hole rounds on a participating regulation golf course • Two 9-hole rounds may be combined for one regulation 18-hole round
Come Play and Ride Pass - $289
• (20) Twenty 9-hole rounds on a participating regulation golf course with a single rider cart • Two 9-hole rounds may be combined for one regulation 18-hole round
Family Fun Pass - $99
• (20) Twenty Par-3 rounds of golf at Harvard Gulch or Kennedy Par-3 courses • (20) Twenty round of Mini Golf at Aqua Golf or Kennedy Golf Course • (20) Twenty small buckets of range balls at Aqua Golf or Kennedy Golf Coruse
For details and restrictions go to: www.denvergolfpasses.com
Social Media Happenings
Check out Denver Golf on YouTube!
Look at the new flyovers for Evergreen Golf Course or see an overview of Denver Golf on Golf At Altitude! Evergreen Golf Course Hole #1 Overview
For more flyovers at Evergreen or Harvard Gulch, go towww.cityofdenvergolf.com.
City of Denver Golf, Golf At Altitude Show
NEWS AND SPECIALS
New Flag System
Finding the hole location will
Wellshire driving
get a little easier at Denver range update Golf courses this Overland Blow Out As the Wellshire Irrigation project continues to progress there may be spring. Formerly, Denver Golf temporary closures of the driving Sale! range. The project includes; an used red, white, blue color entirely new irrigation system, new THE PRO SHOP IS DOING SOME EARLY SPRING more reliable source of water, flags to identify front, middle, removal of the small collection pond CLEANING! in #10 fairway, restoration of #10, and back hole locations. By ALL MEN’S AND LADIES #1 and #7 fairways, and a grass CLOTHING (EXCLUDING landing area for the driving range. May, all of our courses will use OUTERWEAR), SHOES AND The work will continue throughout SELECTED CAPS: 40% OFF the year and may result in periodic closures of the driving range. During one color flag; pin sheets will any closures of the Wellshire driving range we encourage you to visit our be provided to identify hole other driving ranges at Kennedy, Overland and Aqua Golf. When locations. Daily pin sheets will needed, we will do our best to provide warm up stations as we be available at the pro shop continue to improve Wellshire Golf Course and its amenities. Please and on the carts. check with the pro shop or theWellshire Facebook page for the latest news and updates on the driving range and the entire project. Even if you misplace your pin
sheet, the first and 10th tees
will have a sign identifying the
hole location for that day and
each pin will follow the order of
front, middle, back. If your
round starts on a back location,
the next hole will be front, then
middle then back and so on.
The benefit to the golfer is that
you will no longer have to
guess what color the flag is on
each hole. You will know the
hole locations before you hit
your first shot off the first
tee. If you are using a yardage
finder, each flag pole will have
4-6” of reflective tape to assist your rangefinder to deliver
precise yardage to your next
birdie.
Hope you enjoy these little
changes that allow us to
continually improve and deliver
a great golf experience.
CITY PARK UPDATES
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Charting a New City Park Golf Course
How Waves of emotion over losing my first home course turned into a wellspring of hope for Denver's City Park. By Ed Mate, Executive Director, Colorado Golf Association
Growing up in the Park Hill neighborhood, I played City Park Golf Course hundreds of times. As I got older and as my game improved, I measured the increasing length of my drives against the 200-yard stone to the left of the first fairway—the golf equivalent of the pencil marks on the wall in my bedroom indicating my height at the start of each school year. With so much personal history at City Park, I was very concerned when I heard rumors that the course would be closing to make way for a major flood control project. Thankfully, I have since learned that this is not the case. On November 1, the course shuttered for an 18-month period during which it will undergo a complete makeover. And while I am sad to see the course I grew up on go away, I am very excited about the future. I have learned that the stormwater detention element will not be an obnoxious structure blocking views of the course but will be integrated into a new, modern, 18-hole course design. I now understand that the project will result in an improved driving range, enhanced First Tee facility and clubhouse location that capitalizes on the incredible views afforded by the site. I have learned that the city has selected a great team of professionals to complete the project and that the final result will be a rebirth of a new and improved City Park for summer 2019. The preservation of City Park Golf Course is important to all of us—not just those who play golf. City Park will continue to be an oasis of open space in an ever-growing city. In addition to its obvious benefits as a place of recreation for people from all walks of life, the course will also continue to provide more than 100 acres of wildlife habitat and make a positive contribution toward the reduction of carbon emissions. While the holes might look different in summer of 2019, I am very optimistic that City Park Golf Course will be better than ever. The course will continue to be a gathering place for one of the most diverse neighborhoods in our community and an outdoor classroom and haven for hundreds of kids in the First Tee of Denver’s programs. Not bad for a stormwater detention project! Ed Mate is the executive director of the Colorado Golf Association. He grew up playing City Park Golf Course and caddying at Denver Country Club.
Learn more about the project and see the proposed designs at CPGCredesign.org
JUNIOR GOLF
Spring Classes Available Now!
The First Tee Of Denver Spring Registration is open! With our new and improved registration system, everyone that registers will be required to create a new user account during registration. CLASSES START IN APRIL SO SIGN UP NOW by clicking here!
• Youngun - Ages 4-6 with no experience • Advanced Youngun - Ages 5-6 with some experience
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SUPERINTENDENTS CORNER
City Park Golf Course Update By John Madden Superintendent, City Park
As we head into the month of February there
are some amazing changes occurring at City Park Golf
Course during our course-wide renovation. Rough
grading is occurring at a rapid pace, there are already
a handful of holes that have been shaped to rough
grade. Within a few weeks golf features such as
greens and tees will start being built on the eastern
2018 Denver Superintendents end of the property. The construction of the golf course City Park - John Madden Evergreen - Phil Petrone will progress in an east to west direction. Harvard Gulch - Rob Ross As construction transitions into the fine Kennedy - Dean Gleason Overland Park - Colin Muphy details of the golf course the infrastructure is added in Wellshire - Scott Ellis Willis Case - Steve Schommer stages. After rough grading drainage is installed. Following drainage installation, the irrigation system is Capital Improvements then installed. Following the installation of irrigation, Wellshire irrigation renovation.Construction fine grading commences with the replacement of Late 2017- Early 2018. Construction on irrigation improvements began September 5th. For more The topsoil that was harvested and stockpiled before rough photos and daily updated information go to the Wellshire Facebook page. grading.
After topsoil replacement and more fine
grading the grow in portion of the project commences
with the seeding and establishment of the greens,
tees, and fairways. This process will continue
throughout the project with the contractor working on
three to four holes at a time until completion.
Wellshire Driving Range renovation. Wellshire This sounds easy enough, right? A typical is decommissioning the Skeel Dam and renovatiing the reservoir to handle water quality drainage system includes over five miles of pipe as an and retention. The reservoir is currently draining. This will prevent the current flooding average. An irrigation system typically contains over of holes #1, #7 and #10. Wellshire Driving Range will be closed temporarily to accommodate the ten miles of pipe and twenty miles of communication improvements. Please use Kennedy, Aqua Golf of Overland Park for range practice. wire that services over 2000 irrigation heads. Our new
USGA greens will be built from 4400 Cubic Yards, or
5500 tons of soil. The scope of the process seems
daunting with numbers like this, it is this infrastructure
that will provide Denver Golf the ability to return a
great playing experience for all golfers in the future.
As this process continues the Denver Golf team is watching all processes and details with a
sharp eye to ensure we receive a quality project that
will provide enjoyment for our golfers for many
decades to come!
HOLE-IN-ONES
2017 Hole-In-Ones
2017 Hole-In-Ones
Date Name Golf Course Hole # 12/30/17 Jarrod Banning Wellshire 11
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