SPRINGVIEW, NEBRASKA: As a kid we used to play in a golf tournament on sand greens at Springview, Nebraska. This was always great fun and the greens all had a berm around them to keep the sand from blowing out in the winter months and to give hazard to the place so people would not be able to use the ground game......Go Figure.
AINSWORTH, NE - My dad was hired to grow-in the new greens at the Ainsworth municipal golf club.
THEDFORD, NE - At the airport, or at least I think it was there, there is a little course
MULLEN GOLF CLUB: Again, as a kid we would go visit our Uncle Ernie Leach, who was a staple of the Mullen golf scene. RIP Earnest! Nobody loved the game as much as this guy.
MURDO GOLF CLUB: Murdo, SD. 9 hole course located off I-90. No longer in existence. Changed to grass about 10 years ago.
OUR NEIGHBOR'S PASTURE: My first golfing experience was in our neighbor's pasture in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. My brother and I would set up little 9 hole courses. Technically not sand greens, we just dug holes in the ground and put a stick or something in the hole and played to it. I was 11 and 12 years old during that time. We often had to keep an eye out for the neighbor's prize bulls.