Golf Course Update: Website Re-vamp Coming Within a "Few Months"

The mayor's anti-promotional efforts continue

By Dan S.

As I finally look at today's paper, I see there's yet another article about Mt. Ogden golf course. It's a remarkable article, about the city's plan to revamp its web site to promote the golf course "within a few months". There's no explanation of why this can't be done sooner, or, for that matter, why it wasn't done years ago. The only person quoted in the article is our mayor, who hastens to point out that "enhanced promotional efforts won't likely solve the course's financial woes", those woes being "due to its difficult terrain."

In other words, the mayor's anti-promotional efforts continue. We've now had something like five news articles in the last week in which he has told the public what a lousy course it is--on top of the long-term campaign that he began over two years ago. How a web site revamp in a few months can possibly make up for all that, I have no idea. It's absolutely clear that the mayor wants the course to keep losing money until the taxpayers agree to subsidize the redesign whose real purpose is to move the clubhouse closer to the gondola.