Koepka bounced back from wrist injury to earn PGA Tour player of the year
years due to high water costs and a diminishing pool of golfers.
A Beverly Hills speculator with ties to companies that specialize in buying distressed golf courses and then building houses on them had purchased the liens on the land.
“Then Jade and Julie stepped forward,” said Teresa Platt, whose home overlooks what was at the time the second and third fairways of the course which, by the end of that year, had gone brown and overgrown.
“This is in the heart of Gird Valley,” Platt said. “It’s what makes it incredibly special and Jade and Julie have committed to saving and preserving this open space forever.”
Julie and Jade Work bought the golf course at the end of 2016 for $4.1 million. A former professional golfer who made his fortune building golf courses across the United States, Jade Work knew that golf would not return to the valley.
Instead, Platte’s home and many others now
Italian grape vines.
Jade Work’s vision was, and still is, to create a top-line winery operation.
Already more than a dozen variety of grapes are growing on 15 of the former courses 18 holes, plus the driving range -- 90 acres of wine grapes in all.
During the planting, tens of thousands of old golf balls were found in the dirt. “How many golf
had 40 or 50 gunny sacks of balls.”
But not any longer. About nine months ago, three youthful thieves were caught on video one night stealing all the old balls.
“They took them out by wheelbarrows,” Work said. He didn’t report the crime.
“I was glad they took them.”
Next week, Work said, after more than 50 meetings with county planners and various county departments, he will be submitting an application for a major use permit that seeks permission to to be planted.
It takes new vines three years to mature to a point where their fruit can be turned into wine. Because he won’t apply to get an alcohol license from the state until after the county issues a per-
from the 45 acres growing on what once was the front nine holes will be sold to a different winery.
“We’ll then contract with them to make the wine in the style that we want. Then we’re hoping to buy the wine back under our issued license and sell it.”
Platt said the Gird Valley community, located a couple miles north of state Route 76, has been very supportive.
“It’s a big undertaking and a huge risk for them,” she said. Work has estimated the project will cost about $12 million.
“This is a big deal to them,” she said. “Getting through the county process is daunting. We’re really happy to support them. It’s the right thing for the neighborhood. We will
battle again.”
“What is that worth
to
Jetson is flying around in the sky, this place will be preserved.”
in the manner of a Tonya Harding, Ilie Nastase or even Kyle Busch, but by golf’s standards, Patrick Reed might as well be the Iron Sheik.
Reed might look cuddly, but he A DAY
Players Championship in May, Brooks Koepka had to be wondering if 2018 was going to be a lost season.
On Tuesday, it was announced that he was voted player of the year by his PGA Tour peers.
Koepka came back from a wrist injury to win his second U.S Open in a row at Shinecock Hills and the PGA Champion-
- ship ished a career-best ninth
FedEx Cup standings -- despite missing a potential 15 starts -- and finished among the top- 20 in 11 of his 17 tourna- ments.
“This is incredible ... it’s an honor. It’s mind-boggling,” he told pgatour.com.
The former Florida State player and West Palm Beach native could easily point to the Players in May as a turning point, after nearly missing the event.
Koepka was preparing on the eve of
returning from the injury to his left wrist that cost him January through most of April. While on the practice range he re-injured the wrist when he stopped in mid-swing to avoid a volunteer who had inexplicably driven a cart right in from of him.
Koepke nearly withdrew but after an MRI showed no further damage, he
degree murder in the September 17 death of Celia Barquin Arozamena, whose body was found in water near the ninth tee at Clearwater Links Golf Course in Ames.
Richards entered a written plea of not guilty Monday morning (Tuesday in Manila) in Story County District Courts, according to online court records.
The in-person arraignment, originally scheduled for Monday afternoon, was canceled.
by Story County District Judge Bethany Currie, for the pretrial conference and jury trial dates of Richards’ trial.
According online court records, teed o f f and tied for 11th, with
tied the course record -- including an albatross at the par-5 16th hole.
A month later he won the U.S. Open. Two months after that, he won the PGA to
two majors in one season since
player in history to win both of the summer majors in the U.S.
“The lowest of lows and the highest of highs,” he told pgatour.com. “It was pretty dramatic ... at the beginning of the season I was just hoping to be back out playing again. To sit here after winning two majors and player of the year ... I don’t think I even thought this was going to happen.”
list with nearly $7.1 million and he’s currently third on the World Golf Rankings. The only statistic he led the PGA Tour in was a huge factor in his season:
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District Court show police searched the campsite near Coldwater Golf Links where Richards was found.
Various items of clothing that had apparent blood stains were found in age at 68.27.
And the bigger event, the better Koepka played on Sundays. In 10 starts in the majors, The Players, the World Golf Championships and the FedEx Cup Playoffs, he never shot over-par, and averaged 67.8.
He ended his season with 13 of 16 rounds in the 60s in the four playoff events.
on Washington Avenue where Richards was believed to have gone and recovered two knives, including one that had a serrated blade.
According to the report, “one explanation for the variance in serrations marks is a knife containing two separate patterns of serration, one larger and one smaller.”
Photographs, taken of the injuries examined during the autopsy, were compared to the injuries on Richards’
Richard’s hand had serration marks consistent with a wound on the victim’s body.
Richards remains in jail on the original $5 million cash-only bond.
Richards would serve without parole.
life in prison