From the Golf Course Superintendent

Maketewah Greens Superintendents

Richard Cass XXXX-XXXX

George Benvie 1920-1960

James Cooper 1962-1967 A.H. Berckemeyer 1967-1969

Mike McConnell 1970-2008 Ted White 2008-Present

A Letter From

Ted White | Golf Course Superintendent

The Master Plan for the golf course at Maketewah is an integral part of the club and its future success. That is why I support the club with moving forward to finish the plan.

Maketewah Country Club has a great golf course and the renovations that are being planned will make it an exceptional course and club. Our course lacks fairway bunkers. The addition of fairway bunkers will bring back the strategic element that Ross envisioned when the course was designed. I am aware how members might feel that we are making the course harder, but the bunkering will bring strategy, character, and alternative routes of play to the course and each individual hole. Although the bunkering will challenge golfers, the fairways will widen in the landing areas thus allowing for alternative routes that the hole can be played. Along with the fairway bunkering, tees will be rebuilt on the course. Length will be added but we will also be shortening the course with new forward tees added as well. All in all, the rebuilding of the tees will allow all types of players to enjoy the course in a way they were never able to before, thus allowing us to have a more diverse clientele.

Other enhancements that will help the course during this renovation will include irrigation upgrades, XGD drainage in all the remaining greens, and continued infrastructure drainage improvements.

I believe in Maketewah, and the course that we have. Continuing with the improvements that we have planned will only raise that status of our club.