Mount Ogden Golf Course Update: Two New Items from the Standard-Examiner

More Mt. Ogden Golf Course ink from our home town newspaper

We'll kick off this morning's discussion by shining the spotlight on two significant articles in today's Standard-Examiner, both dealing with the Mount Ogden Golf Course.

First, Ogden City Councilwoman Dorrene Jeske provides a truly fine guest commentary this morning, in which she focuses on MOGC's excellent reputation within the national golf community, and further emphasises that the golf course is an impressive Ogden sports venue even as it presently exists. From there, Ms. Jeske then reels off a list of proposed fixes which wouldn't require $6-8 million in future bonding -- all good ideas for a cash strapped city in the midst of a national economic downturn. Further, she makes an interesting comparison between the relative maintenance budgets of MOGC and Bountiful Ridge, another popular Utah mountain course, which annually spends $1.5 million, compared to Mt. Ogden's $250 thousand. Ms. Jeske's inference is quite clear: One of MOGC's major problems is simple maintenance neglect. Accordingly, Ms. Jeske favors an increase in MOGC's budget.

In a slightly different arena, the Std-Ex reports that Boss Godfrey's secretly selected Stealth Citizens' Golf Committee is moving full speed ahead toward its predetermined and ineluctable goal: recommending Godfrey's full-tilt $6-8 million makeover. The committee's first public meeting is set for Wednesday. We urge all interested Emerald City citizens to be in attendance, pitchforks and torches in hand. It will be interesting, we believe, to observe how this committee will conduct itself in the future, now that the cat's out of the bag, and its activities are suddenly subject to the steely eyeball of public scrutiny.

Have at it, O gentle ones.