Moccasin Run

[Rick Sides]

Driving out to Lancaster,saw a sign for a course called Moccasin Run. Anyone ever play it?

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[Rick Sides]

Astavrides,
Thanks for the update.  Do you rank the courses you played and have you played over 900?

[astavrides]

Astavrides,
Thanks for the update.  Do you rank the courses you played and have you played over 900?

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[Carl Nichols]

What's #1!?  How about 903?!

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[Ed Brzezowski]

Play it once a year in a charity outing, nice course but nothing really memorable.  The family that built and run it are great folks, they really go out of their way to make you feel welcome.  

[Dan Herrmann]

It has amazing rates, encourages walking (very walkable), and has ownership dedicated to the success of the course and the golfer's fun.

Besides, what other golf course has their own poem!:

Streams of Knight Run and Wolf Hollow flowed
Octorara Indians of sixteen hundred have roamed
The Octorara Area had productive agriculture land
Farms were available for families to raise their clan.

Paul, Dorothy and sons in 1986, a new idea was bought
This farm "a golf course" was not a welcome thought
Opposition was building, a challenge to win
Politicians and neighbors watching construction begin.

It was zoning and finances construction would freeze
Leasing and renting equipment our sons operate with a breeze
Newspaper articles were printed, a farmers mistake
Many visitors with cameras wondering if it was all fate.

A name for the golf course, it had to be good
An Indian symbol, I wonder if I could
Moccasin Run was suggested and agreed by all
A logo for Moccasin Run, who should we call.

I visited our neighbor Sue, Moccasin Run is the name
Sue designed the logo; she said it was no pain
The back page of Wilson Sports showed our logo that year
It was voted in top ten as "Logo of the Year".

Moccasin Run will serve many golfers
Dignity and honesty, King Family desires par
Paul, Dorothy and sons have gone through many curves
Asking God to bless the golfers we serve.

Written by Paul J. King

[Mark Molyneux]

Moccasin Run occupies me for a full day (at least one full day) each year when I play in their 36 hole event. The loyalty among players in that event (conducted by the course owners) is a testament to the way they maintain the course and the way they treat their customers. The course plays a shade over 6500 yards from the tips to a 35-37 par 72 (71.2/124). Conditions almost always seem to be lush. The holes are pretty much straightforward and the greens are relatively uncomplicated but very true. It's out in the land of The Plain. There's often a group of teenaged boys playing somewhere on the course wearing the britches, suspenders, and white shirts that are common among Amish folks. I have wondered about their equipment, i.e. how "high tech" are they allowed to get before the community starts talking to them about their ways? Never having peeked into any golf bags, I don't know but I wouldn't be surprised to find a personally carved set of hickory clubs. I recall last year on the twelfth tee (a straightaway reachable par 5) thinking how I was standing at the border between two worlds as the maintenance guy was crossing the 11th green behind me with a John Deere mower getting the surface to a 10 or a 10.5 and the 14 year old Amish kid was pushing a two horse plow team around the cornfield, 20 yards to my right (and OB if that matters).

A note to Dan Herrmann, it's been since that get together at Baltusrol years ago that we last spoke. I hadn't been posting but I always read your stuff. Still at French Creek?