Video: Glen Garden After Closing
/The course where Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson caddied and Sandra Palmer learned the game closed last December. But hunting down the legacy of Hogan and Nelson, CNN's Shane O'Donoghue stopped in at Glen Garden CC on a recent winter day to find the now-shuttered course under snow. O'Donoghue says some of the course's holes will remain intact as other parts are developed into an expanded whisky distillery.
Sandra Baker reported on the course's closing and neighbor hostility toward the new owners.
The Rev. Carl Pointer, who has lived in the Rolling Hills neighborhood near Glen Garden for 35 years and opposed the July rezoning to allow the distillery project, said Thursday he is sad to see how vacant and lifeless the 109.4-acre property has become since the golf course closed Dec. 10.
But Pointer said the neighborhood will become a “gauntlet of protesters” and will contest every event planned for the facility that they find out about.
“We really don’t want this,” Pointer said. “We don’t have a whole lot of confidence in what the new owners say. They’re all over the place. We’re going to make sure the grass is cut and protest every event there.”
