It's always cool seeing a golf course I've played show up in the news, especially when it's positive and it's a course I genuinely liked. So, after the absolute disaster that's befallen the DC municipal golf courses (and the less said about it, the better), this article from Golfweek on Wilmington Municipal in North Carolina was very much appreciated.
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| The eighteenth hole at Wilmington Municipal. |
It doesn't actually say all that much about the course, and obviously the sort of work they've been doing isn't exactly exciting, but that logistical work on irrigation and the like still matters a lot. And it just goes to show that when you invest in public golf, you will be rewarded. As I mentioned in my review (read it
here and
here), when we played the course, it was very busy, but the round still took comfortably less than 4 hours. We rarely waited, and that's because Wilmington Municipal is well designed but user friendly. It's tough losing golf balls there, and that matters for pace of play. It's also great for the course's bottom line — fast rounds means they can get more people out, which means more money for them.
So, it's pretty safe to say that, as Wilmington Municipal approaches its 100th anniversary, it's doing better than ever. If only DC were so lucky as to have a course like it.
