Greenwich Town Golf Course (tree management plan)

[corey miller]

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.

[V. Kmetz]

is this Millbrook or Innis Arden...I thought both were private

cheers

vk

[corey miller]

Neither

This is the Griffith E. Harris course on King Street near the Westchester County Airport.

[Tim_Weiman]

Corey,

Back in my college days when I lived in Greenwich, I used to play "the Bruce" with buddies from Maneros, a true golfing culture with two USGA champs in the same family - Tony and Nick (who won the US Senior Amateur).

Really not a bad muni course.

Speaking of Greenwich, I still wish I could turn back the clock about 130-140 years and appoint myself King of the United States so that Belle Haven, especially all the parts along the water, could be reserved to build Cypress Point East.

Maybe then, Cypress Point would have been called Belle Haven West!

[Brad Klein]

I would think the estimate generous and that the weeping willows on a golf course are overvalued by about $13,000 apiece.

[Mark McKeever]

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