WEIMAR’S PASTIME
ON PAR WITH THE BEST
Weimar Golf Course AN INTERVIEW WITH JIMMY HEGER, WEIMAR NATIVE AND GOLF ENTHUSIAST BY MICHELLE BASNE STOKES, PHOTOS BY EMILY HENDERSON
The mission of the Weimar Golf Course is to offer the community, at a reasonable price, a golfing experience second to none in the area. Ranked No. 17 of the best nine-hole courses in Texas by the Dallas Morning News, the municipal course welcomes both members and non-members alike. The course is well-maintained and a pleasure to play by golfers of any skill level. Having played the course many times myself, I can affirm that statement to be true. I scored my first birdie on hole three and still have the Titleist on my office desk as a memento. Recently I had a chance to sit down with Jimmy Heger, a member of the Weimar Golf Course board of directors. He’s pretty proud of his local golf course and for good reason … it has been a quintessential part of the Weimar community in some fashion since the 1920s. According to their website, Tom Hill and Hans Brasher started playing golf with three golf holes in the middle of a cow pasture that over the years evolved into the present nine-hole format. Shortly after World War II (1949) several of the returning veterans decided to relocate and build new grass greens. And the rest, as they say, is history. “I’ve only been playing the Weimar Golf Course for 50 years,” Jimmy said with a laugh. “I was born and raised here and it was something I always enjoyed doing. I was eight or nine-years old when my dad introduced me to the game.”
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I was eight or nineyears old when my dad introduced me to the game.
