New owners of Oak Creek GC, which closed last August after operating since 1975, have renovated the golf course, established stricter dress-code rules and created a new restaurant, Sully’s at Oak Creek. “The community needs something like this very much,” said one member of the ownership group.
Public golf is returning to Red Bluff, Calif., the Red Bluff Daily News reported.
The former Oak Creek Golf Course reopened on July 2nd under a new name (which was not reported by the Daily News) and new ownership. The Daily News did report that Sully’s at Oak Creek would be the new restaurant attached to the renovated nine-hole golf course.
Last fall, a local group of business people took over ownership of the golf course, which originally opened in 1975 but had been closed since August 2017, the Daily News reported. Derek and Christine Wise, along with James and Lesa Harris, have pooled their expertise and resources to develop the golf course with the simple goal of providing a quality dining and golf experience for the community.
The new owners are joined by Frank and Doreen Perino, who round out the management group, with Frank Perino serving as the Director of Golf Operations for the course, the Daily News reported.
“We want this to be a family-friendly environment where people can come get a great meal and also enjoy the golf course,” Derek Wise told the Daily News. “The community needs something like this very much, which is one of the reasons we decided to do this. That and we are gluttons for punishment.”
While golfers will recognize the course layout, the restaurant and clubhouse will be different, the Daily News reported. There will be a dress code typical of most golf courses, with men required to wear collared shirts and no tube or halter tops for women or flip flops or boots allowed on the course.
“We just want people to dress appropriately as they would for any quality golf course,” Wise said.
Under Perino’s direction, the new owners brought in experts in turf management to rehabilitate the fairways and greens, which had suffered after years of drought and the closing of the course, the Daily News reported.
Perino has improved the course’s bunkers, adding some, deepening others and filling them with high-quality silica sand. A new moat has also been dug around the sixth hole, making it an island green.
Rates and memberships will be kept close to those that the course previously had, the Daily News reported.
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