Mt. Ogden Golf Course Update: Boss Godfrey Defends His Attack on the Golf Course

Added bonus: a couple of fine letters to the editor

Three interesting items on the Standard-Examiner editorial page today, all dealing with one of our favorite red-meat topics, Emerald City's crown jewel Mt. Ogden Golf Course.

Just as we predicted, Boss Godfrey has finally responded to the recent flurry of Std-Ex letters to the editor, all of which have been critical of Godfrey and his recent four-option plan to forever drastically change Emerald City's treatment of our hillside gem. This morning's guest commentary consists of Godfrey's bullet point rant, slamming the golf course yet again, and once again illustrating Godfrey's penchant for cavalierly dismissing any ideas which aren't his own:

• Ogden mayor defends Mount Ogden Golf Course scrutiny

As an added bonus, we find a fine broadside letter to the editor from Weber County Forum reader Jason Wood, peppered with various signature euphemisms which will be familiar to long-time readers of this blog.

And don't miss this morning's Matthew McGarry Campbell letter, which, among other things mentions anecdotally an event which we hadn't heard about previously:

"Matthew Godfrey has a personal vendetta against the golf course. Eight years ago he was chastised for his selfish practice of jogging on the fairways of Mount Ogden golf course."

This was indeed a new one for us, and we thus invite any readers who have knowledge of this event to expand on it a little bit, and offer more particular details for our further enlightenment.

In this connection, we'll also suggest that the Mt. Ogden Golf Course would no doubt increase its patronage, and log MANY more rounds played, if Boss Godfrey would simply involve himself more personally in the golf course's promotion, and promise to jog regularly on the MOGC fairways.

We're running a busy calender today, and we're posting this on the fly. We'll thus leave the deep microanalysis to our ever-gentle readers.

Well.....?

Update 4/3/08 10:10 a.m. MT: As a further added bonus we post below a photo of Boss Godfrey's preferred option, the $10 million course redesign (click to enlarge image). As you peruse this graphic, ask yourselves what the little dotted line running diagonally from the roadway in the southwest corner to the mountain ridge on the east represents. Egad... A GONDOLA? We thank gentle reader Dan S. for this intriguing submission.