The town purchased the 150-acre property, golf course, pool and clubhouse for $7 million in 2009 to keep it from being developed after the owners went bankrupt. Since then, a golf course has failed financially and the pool, kept open with summer membership, has been closed.
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Holmes thought traveling to the Stockton Club to play took too much time away from the business. Perhaps some pasture land Holmes was renting nearby from Thompson-Folger, on which he kept his two horses, would be suitable for a small golf course.
A toss of the coin won Em Herrick the honors , and with a mighty baseball swing he drove the first ball. By June 1924, more than $150 had been spent clearing brush to form more greens and tees, and the pasture had now been transformed into five golf holes.