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Ted Cahill

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Re: Commonground - A promising future for golf
« Reply #25 on: July 06, 2011, 03:49:18 PM »
David Tepper or other Bay Area GCAers may have the answer to this question:  Doesn't Metro in Oakland qualify as a Common Ground-type success story?  My understanding of the story of Metro is it is a new course built over an old, neglected muni course. It has nice practice facilities and serves as the First Tee home, I believe. I'm not sure what it cost to make over or if it has Papago type debt- but it certainly provides a nice facility for an urban area- with a "grow the game" atmosphere, sans any expensive, needless trappings. Anyone have more details on Metro's history?
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astavrides

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Re: Commonground - A promising future for golf
« Reply #26 on: July 06, 2011, 04:21:42 PM »
Quote from: Ted Cahill on July 06, 2011, 03:49:18 PM
David Tepper or other Bay Area GCAers may have the answer to this question:  Doesn't Metro in Oakland qualify as a Common Ground-type success story?  My understanding of the story of Metro is it is a new course built over an old, neglected muni course. It has nice practice facilities and serves as the First Tee home, I believe. I'm not sure what it cost to make over or if it has Papago type debt- but it certainly provides a nice facility for an urban area- with a "grow the game" atmosphere, sans any expensive, needless trappings. Anyone have more details on Metro's history?
I don't know nearly as many details as others about this since I have only lived in Nocal for 1.5 years.   It is a nice course now and indeed is a first tee site, but my impression is that they gentriified it ($55 prime time for Oakland residents) a bit, and that it used to be a hangout for the African-American golf community, but I have never seen a black adult golfer at Metro the 3 or 4 times I've been there.  Probably there are/were other factors...
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Doug Wright

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Re: Commonground - A promising future for golf
« Reply #27 on: July 07, 2011, 11:23:31 AM »
Quote from: Adam Clayman on July 06, 2011, 08:02:55 AM
There's few muni's where one can actually feel what I felt on the 12th hole.

Just amazing considering it's cost and location.

I'm curious Adam--what did you "feel" on the 12th hole? I like the hole but I have better feelings about other holes at CG.
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Tim Pitner

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Re: Commonground - A promising future for golf
« Reply #28 on: July 07, 2011, 12:42:05 PM »
Quote from: Doug Wright on July 07, 2011, 11:23:31 AM
Quote from: Adam Clayman on July 06, 2011, 08:02:55 AM
There's few muni's where one can actually feel what I felt on the 12th hole.

Just amazing considering it's cost and location.

I'm curious Adam--what did you "feel" on the 12th hole? I like the hole but I have better feelings about other holes at CG.

I had the same thought--#12 is probably not a hole I would single out for praise. 

(CG also isn't a muni, as Tom D has reiterated). 
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Kalen Braley

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Re: Commonground - A promising future for golf
« Reply #29 on: July 07, 2011, 01:00:33 PM »
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