James D. Taylor will likely enter into a three-year lease agreement to operate the Grill on the Hill restaurant at the Worcester, Mass., golf course. In Belle Plaine, Minn., the shuttered Valley View Golf Course could have a new owner by next spring, as the current owner is accepting bids for the property.

At Valley View GC in Layton, Utah, two men in a single-engine Cessna survived after nosediving into a sand trap on a Saturday morning while golfers were out enjoying unseasonably warm weather. At Skywest GC in Hayward, Calif., a plane made a successful emergency landing after running out of fuel.