The town owned and run golf course reopened after a rough winter made difficult by Hurricane Sandy which caused $500,000 of "damage" to the course's trees.
The course lost nearly 40 of the trees valued at $12,500 each including a row of weeping willows along the first hole.
Fortunately, the superintendent has put down hay where the trees were lost including some pines.
Some of the trees may not even be put back in as they were on the edge of the fairway. A discussion will be had as most do not want to have a links course.
All is not lost however, The course and town had insurance on the property and though the deductible is high $200,000 they do expect to receive $1,000,000 from Fema for the town owned trees lost during the storm on the golf course. FEMA doing much good, lucky they have no better place to allocate the funds.
