Serrano to Close?
Ran across this in the Folsom Telegraph today:
Golf course may close
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 3:14 PM PSTA strong rumor about its closure is making the rounds at the El Dorado Hills Golf Course this week.
Everyone concerned is speculating about a series of employee meetings to be held at Serrano. The focus of these meetings is being advertised as a decision by Bill Parker, lead developer and owner of most of the remaining undeveloped property in the Serrano complex, as to whether this El Dorado Hills signature 45-year old public golf course will remain open or close in the foreseeable future.
Contrary to recent Sacramento area opinion, the oldest Robert Trent Jones, Sr. designed executive golf course in the Western U.S. has "never" closed.
The course is in great shape. Its greens are still immaculate and fast and, best of all, the green fees are extremely affordable, although you wouldn't know it from the complete lack of advertising by the owner during the past two years.
It would be a quality-of-life (i.e. traffic) and an environmental tragedy if El Dorado Hills and the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors were to allow the golf course to be closed or that this last remaining piece of open, pristine land would be re-zoned from recreational/farming to commercial/multi-family.
Walter G. Andrews
Does anyone have any other info? If so, please post a comment.
Gillian Parrillo
The Sacramento Executive
Comments
Ok...I checked with my area golf expert, Jim Corbett, and he tells me it is the public golf course, at the entrance of Serrano Parkway, not the Country Club. So, not as dramatic as I thought, but still sad for those who use the public course.
Posted by: Gillian Parrillo | December 20, 2006 7:04 PM
Was reading in our local El Dorado Hills Telegraph newspaper this morning that Parker
has announced that the course will close for good on Jan 12, 2007. He has formed 2 committees in research possible uses for the property after closure. Again, this isnt the private Serrano golf course, but the public course that sits on El Dorado Hills Blvd.
Posted by: Mike Rico | December 21, 2006 10:38 AM