Commonground - A promising future for golf

[Ted Cahill]

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?

[astavrides]

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...

[Doug Wright]

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.

[Tim Pitner]

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). 

[Kalen Braley]

You can see an aerial of the course now on Google Maps.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=common+ground+golf&ll=39.713649,-104.874705&spn=0.006231,0.014516&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&fb=1&gl=us&cid=0,0,2854871761356635347&t=h&z=17