The Menomonie, Wis., property will be under new ownership as of September 3. The club will be renamed Pinewood Golf Club & Restaurant, as the new owners plan to expand dining options at the clubhouse.
Pinewood Golf Course in Menomonie, Wis., will tee off the fall with new owners and a new name, the Eau Claire, Wis.-based Leader-Telegram reported.
The nine-hole course has been bought by Menomonie residents Jasen Bullock and Faith Cook, who are engaged to be married, the Leader-Telegram reported.
They will take possession of the business September 3 and will change its name to Pinewood Golf Club & Restaurant. The duo plan to expand dining options at the clubhouse, the Leader-Telegram reported.
Bullock, 38, currently works as a superintendent at Chippewa Valley Golf Club, and Cook works in the clubhouse there. Cook, a member of the Menomonie City Council who represents Ward 5, is also a UW-Stout student majoring in hotel and restaurant management and golf enterprise management. She graduates in December.
She has degrees in recreational management from Northwest College in Orange City, Iowa, and turf management from Rutgers University in New Jersey, the Leader-Telegram reported.
At Pinewood, Cook will work as clubhouse manager, and Bullock will operate the golf course and maintain it, the Leader-Telegram reported.
“I’ve been working in the golf course business for 20 years,” Bullock said. “This is a good opportunity.”
Bullock said he wants to make sure the golf course greens are well-maintained and in a year or two add tee boxes and increase some of the holes’ lengths, the Leader-Telegram reported.
“We do plan to keep it affordable,” Bullock said of the course. “We want to encourage people to get involved with golf. I am an avid golfer, and I want people to know we are here.”
The food portion of the business also will undergo changes. Cook plans to immediately add gourmet sandwiches, soups and salads to the restaurant menu. The plan is to also start serving the food for banquets at the facility rather than having food catered in. The clubhouse is available for parties or special events, seating 100 people upstairs and 150 downstairs, the Leader-Telegram reported.
Cook and Bullock bought Pinewood from Tom Karis, who owned the golf course with his father, Bud Karis, who died in June. The Karis family built the golf course just over 21 years ago on a reclaimed gravel pit and provided nearly all of the labor for that effort themselves. The course opened on Labor Day in 1994, the Leader-Telegram reported.
In an interview in 2013 with the Leader-Telegram, Bud Karis said he wanted the course he started to be sold to someone local, who he hoped would continue to operate it as a golf course, the Leader-Telegram reported.
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