Volume 7 , Issue 17

Old Alva Golf & Country Club...

Thanks to many of you who left comments in last weeks ezine/newsletter concerning the Old Golf & Country Club that was once located on the westside of Alva, Oklahoma.

Jim tells us that the present high school (14th & Flynn Avenue) sits on the land once occupied by the Alva Golf and Country Club. The Country Club purchased the land north of Alva for the new course sometime in the mid 1950's. The northeast corner of the old course was the corner of 13th and Flynn. The old course was sold to the Alva School District and the new building was ready for classes in the fall of 1956 (Jim said he was in the first class that graduated from that building in the Spring of 1957). Jim couldn't remember how far south the course ran, but thinks it must have been fairly close to the old hospital. The old country club building was used as the high school industrial arts building for several years.

We also learned from Jim that one of the holes was a par-3 that required the golfer to tee off across the canyon where the football practice field is today. The "green" (they were all sand greens) was located in the area that is used for parking on the westside of the canyon.
      How many golf balls do you suppose golfers lost in the deep grass that covered the canyon floor at that time?

Others remembered eating Sunday dinner at the clubhouse, sledding down the hill toward Flynn in the winter snow, and watching fireworks set up down in the canyon the west side of the property. Still others used to do some cadding there when they were just a lad.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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