The Mauh-Nah-Tee-See Club and Forest Hills Country Club, which each date back to the 1920s, have started a two-year “trial run” of a plan that will allow members to utilize both facilities. The alliance was formed out of “mutual respect” from the “friendly competition” that has developed over the years, the clubs’ presidents said.
Two country clubs in Rockford, Ill., each with histories dating back to the 1920s, are taking a new approach to the view that properties in the same area must compete for members and for recreational and social dollars, reported MyStateline.com, the website of television stations WTVO ABC 17 and WQRF Fox 39, which serve the Rockford market.
The Mauh-Nah-Tee-See Club and Forest Hills Country Club have formed an alliance, MyStateline.com reported, through which both clubs will continue to operate separately, but their members will get to utilize both clubs.
For now, the alliance is scheduled to run through December of 2016 as sort of a trial run, MyStateline.com reported.
“You belong to one club, but you get the benefits of membership at two clubs,” the President of The Mauh-Nah-Tee-See Club, Dr. Kris Tumilowicz, told MyStateline.com.
Added Forest Hills CC’s President, Tom Green: “The local management that we have [and] the local management [of] Mauh-Nah-Tee-See [have] grown to know and like each other over the years. Even though we have a friendly competition for membership there’s really a mutual respect there.”
The Mauh-Nah-Tee-See Club, named for the legend of Princess Mauh Nah Tee See, who was said to be “a strong-willed, native American maiden whose independent nature and natural beauty captured the heart of an early Rockford settler,” was formed in 1926. Forest Hills CC was established in 1921.
A fact sheet with particulars on how the alliance applies to golf, food-and-beverage, pool and tennis, billing and the clubs’ dress codes has been posted at http://www.mntscc.org/FHCC_Alliance/memberalliancefactsheet_(1).aspx
The two club presidents told MyStateline.com that the partnership will allow the clubs to enhance their junior golf programs and increase their opportunities for community golf play days.
After airing the report, the Sports Director of WTVO ABC 17, Scott Leber, gave credit to the two clubs for “thinking outside the box” in devising a plan for their members to be able to not only play two golf courses, but also for their families to be able to use multiple pools, tennis courts and eating facilities.
The station’s video report, which includes footage of the two properties, can be viewed at http://www.mystateline.com/fulltext-sports/d/story/country-clubs-form-alliance/30847/NUGj7H3hoEWK7rpNw3juHA
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