Everett Golf & Country Club getting a face-lift
Published 11:04 am Thursday, June 14, 2007
The membership at Everett Golf &Country Club has approved a $3.25 million project to make substantial improvements and modifications to the golf course and other club facilities over the next five years, with most to take place in the next two years.
Among the changes scheduled between July and next spring are a new golf cart storage building and a significantly larger golf practice area (including a covered tee area for the driving range), as well as a new swimming pool and a newly paved parking lot.
Beginning in the fall of 2008, the club will make significant changes to nine of the 18 holes. Two holes, Nos. 5 and 14, each will be lengthened by about 50 yards, several bunkers will be reshaped or relocated, and a few greens will be reshaped, all with the idea of making the course more challenging.
According to club president Paul Desilet, $600,000 of the project total has been “earmarked just for the golf course.”
The idea, he went on, “is to still let the 20-handicapper play the golf course like he’s always wanted to, but also to make it more of a challenge for the low handicapper.”
Members voted recently on the plan, and it passed with nearly a two-thirds “yes” vote (64 percent), Desilet said. Members will be assessed just under $4,000 apiece to pay for the changes, he added.
In the past 12 years, Everett G&CC has put in a new sprinkler system for the golf course and remodeled its main dining room, “but we’ve done nothing as major as what we’re accomplishing right now,” Desilet said. “So we’re real excited the membership supported this so strongly.”
“We feel (these improvements) will just bring us up to 2008 standards and keep us competitive with the surrounding golf club climate,” he said. “We’re always competing for everybody’s spendable income, so when people are choosing a golf club to belong to, we want to have the proper things to offer them.”
