The Elmwood Golf Club in Swift Current will go ahead with a major renovation project.
Over one hundred members attended a special meeting Thursday night, where they voted overwhelmingly in favour of the proposal which will see a redesigned course and a residential development stretching from the current driving range to the 16th green.
"It's pretty exciting, because allows us to renovate all 18 greens without ever playing on temporaries, we'll be bringing in a 70-lot housing development into the golf course, and we'll be able to get the services of a widely recognized architect in Les Furber," said Elmwood Golf Club President Warren Hope.
"The partnership with the City is really key," he added. "We've done a lot of creative things with them, and I really have to give the City a lot of credit, for looking at the project, believing in it, and coming up with some ways to make this go without having to put taxpayer funds into it."
Hope adds construction is expected to begin later this season, and will include construction of the new 17th and 18th holes near Memorial Drive, and says there should be minimal disruption to golfers during this period.
"Mr. Furber has really taken a lot of pains to make sure that there's very little disruption to the course," he said. "Normally, the work that he'll do will actually occur after Labour Day, so it will be outside of the regular golf season, and most of the work that he'll do in 2014 will be mostly to the outside of the course."
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