Jack Brooks Cedar Hills Course Development

[Jake Walsdorf]

Update: Work on the second course reached a new high a couple of weeks ago with 2 work days in a row. Five baskets of the back 9 were installed and are playable. The other 4 will be completed soon.

4 holes of the front nine still need clearing before we can install baskets on the front. We plan to get working again late July.

If anyone would like to help, plan on coming out Saturday July 26th with a chain saw.

It's taking a long time to accomplish this project, because there are very few people working on it. But It's coming along now that we have received design approval from the county.

Come out and play the 5 we have installed and let me know what you think.

Jake

[ERicJ]

Is there a map for the second course?

[Jake Walsdorf]

Originally Posted by ERicJ

Is there a map for the second course?

A map of the second course is posted on the information board at the other course. The course work needs a capable sign/grahics person to help with stuff like tee markers, course maps, and general signage in anyone is interested give me a shout.

Jake 409/771-3212

[bmugwump]

By the way, people....if you haven't been out to Brooks lately & seen the new holes that are already installed, then you owe yourself a trip. We all also owe Jake some gratitude & especially some helping hands to get the rest of the new 18 together. I haven't gotten out to help much lately...that must change! Once the new course is done, Brooks is going to be one of the best courses around...please get involved & help make it happen.

[mattman]

Jake, Tony H. works at a graphics company

[Midnightbiker]

Isn't there going to be a couple of shots over water? If so , how far are these shots?

[scoot_er]

Originally Posted by Midnightbiker

Isn't there going to be a couple of shots over water? If so , how far are these shots?

Not very far and even shorter if Jake makes in a 320ft anhyzer over the water VS the 450ft hole he has currently. Then again I think more people would go in the drink my way,

[Jake Walsdorf]

If anyone is interested, we are working on the second course this weekend (August 16th) from 9am until around 1pm.

The plan is to clear a few more holes in the bermuda triangle. Come out if you can help. The county is scheduled to bring their chipper.

Hope to see a few people out.

Jake

[DPdiscer]

I would love to go to Klein park Saturday, but, I would love even more to work on Jack Brooks championship course. By the way, what makes a course a championship course? Is it the total length?

[Jake Walsdorf]

Originally Posted by DPdiscer

I would love to go to Klein park Saturday, but, I would love even more to work on Jack Brooks championship course. By the way, what makes a course a championship course? Is it the total length?

Chuck, you have put some time into the Brooks Championship course already. I can understand that you want to go play a tourney and not having to run it. I would rather play too. And Thomas was a great guy that had a wonderful personality. Glad I have one of the orginal baskets he and Don made for the first Texas states. A couple of wekends ago in Baton Rouge; I saw the first ever "proto type" storkesaver made by Thomas. It had a strange looking piece of metal for the base. I wish I could go. However, my weekends open to working on the new course are very limited, so I need to work instead of play. I'm hoping we get some new blood to step up to help clear. So far Matt and Nick from Iowa said they could help.

We're working in the shade if that matters to anyone.

To your question what makes a course "championship". I would think many things go into a course looking and functioning as a championship course. Look at most of the courses in Houston, then compare to say Wimberley; all the differences; that's what makes a course champioship material. Lenght is just one criteria.