Evening star., 1933-08-01
Details fot: Operation of Links
At Indian Spring Given Golfers

4 4 EMBERS of the Indian Spring
M Golf Club today have before
w them the answers to many
questions which have ariser
since the club decided to turn over to
Indian Spring Village the golf course
and clubhouse The actual restitution
of the property TO Tom and Nettie
Moore, the owners, took place last
night, and the entire property now is
in the hands of Indian Spring Village,
Inc
To satisfy the members Tom Moore
has sent out letter to all those who
have remained with the club. which
lists among other points the fact that
Indian Spring will not become either a
public nor a semi-public golf course.
Nothing could be further from our
minds" the letter says. Not that any
one who plays his golf on public links
is not as good as his neighbor who
plays on private links or that he Is not
welcome TO become a member of Indian
Spring The fact is, We just did not
build Indian Spring to be a public
links course, and it shall be a last
resort if it should ever fall in that
direction
"The golf course will be open,
likewise the several facilities
made available to each and every
member of Indian Spring on
basis considered temporary but in
order to give the owners time to
consider more definite plans and
thereby answer the question OF
golf course privileges for the i'm
mediate present.
For the present we consider a
charge of 50 weekly payable in cash
for male members and one dollar
weekly for lady members to cover the
short period for temporary operating
policy and until the owners have time
to evolve plans that will apply to future
days. During the temporary period as
above there will be no charge for golf
course privileges for junior members.
Guest fees will continue as in the past,
one dollar on week days, one dollar and
a half on Saturdays, Sundays and
holidays"
~HE letter reviews the original plan
for Indian Spring when the
- course was built, and at which
time the plans called for construction
of hundreds of houses on lots to be
apportioned to the members. with the
club equity to be divided into 300
shares at a later date.
For three consecutive years at the
annual meetings the property was Of
fered to the membership for the actual
cost plus per cent interest, even in
the face of the fact that the clubs
property values of land had tripled.
Moreover, Mr. Moore offered to ex-
change his cash equity for long term
notes, which omitted the necessity Of
raising cash therefore on the part Of
the members. This offer was not &C
cepted and Mr.. Moore carried on by
leasing the club to the members with
no restrictions placed as to policies,
except that the membership limit
should be 800.
After going into certain details
OF the proposed home ownership
plan in connection Nth future club
operation, the letter concludes:
I'VE are optimistic that our chances
are good to no1D 90 tor,Card and ac-
complish solid foundation, also er-
pdnd in facilities for pleasure and
comfort, provided our business poll
cieS are sufficiently sound and due
consideration and cooperation be
accorded our efforts, in fair measure.
within a comparatively few days
and certainly not worse than a few
weeks. we will evolve and make known