Jonathan, you've been talking to my wife again!
Alan Gard, the cart is free, or at least we have one price for all, and you have the option of using it or not. It simplifies the pricing and tax collection to do it our way, and at $45 resident/$65 or so non-resident the fee is certainly moderate enough. The course is readily walkable, something of which about 15% of our golfers currently avail themselves, and if we we went to separate pricing we doubt that more than another 5% would walk.
Jim Kennedy, we never planned for an intermediate cut around the greens. This also simplifies maintenance, saves us some money, and since the rough around the greens is moderate enough it should not be a major playability issue. From the near rough around the collar I have no problem putting or chipping with a 7-wood.
Bill Vostinak, unfortunately, our grow-in superintendent, Gteg Dubois, who was with us through the first two seasons, has been recruited away to Portsmouth CC in New Hampshire (where his wife's family lives). We just went through an extensive national search and have hired Mark Mansur, formerly of Richter Park in Danbury, Ct., as our new superintendent. He starts any day now.
Mark Chalfant, thanks for the comments. You saw a lot, despite a rather bleak, cold and rainy, overcast day.
Tim Liddy is a great guy to work with, and he accommodated himself to a rather oddly harsh regulatory culture at the town and state levels to make the course work, weaving together holes around 91 acres of wetlands and under a powerline without a single forced carry of an approach shot into any green and minimal impact on tee shot carries.
As for the name of the golf course contractor, for some reason I cannot seem to recall it.