Bowden Golf Course has teamed up with Fort Valley Masonic Lodge #110 for the first ever Foot Wedge Golf Tournament. Registration is at 8 a.m. on Saturday, October 28, 2017. Money raised will go toward local charities the lodge supports. Organizers hope to make the tournament an annual event the community will love and support.
“I believe thisevent will be a great opportunity to bring people together for a good cause, to enjoy a tournament together, and of course support the golf course. We hope the tournament will just keep getting bigger every year!,” said General Manager of Golf Brandon Doles.
The competition will be in a four-person scramble format, and entry includes a round of golf, lunch, one mulligan (additional mulligans available for purchase), longest drive, and closest to the pin. There will be prizes awarded throughout the day as well.
Registration is $70 per person, or $280 per team. Click here for the registration form. You can sign up now, or the day of. To register, call Brandon Doles at (478) 447-9287 or the Bowden pro shop at (478) 742-1610.
Sponsorship opportunities are still available at $100 and $350 levels. Click here to view the sponsorship form.
About Bowden Golf Course
In February 2015, Bowden Golf Course was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The nomination was sponsored by the City of Macon and the Macon Golf for Kids program. Since 2013, approximately $625,000 from the voter-approved Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) has been spent on improvements at Historic Bowden Golf Course.
In January 2016, the Macon-Bibb Commission set new prices for playing golf at Bowden Golf Course. An annual membership costs $600. Daily rates are $20 for Monday through Thursday play, and $25 for Friday through Sunday play. There is also a disc golf course at Bowden, and it costs $3.21 to play 18 holes.
This 18-hole public golf course was designed in 1938 by John “Dick” C. Cotton (1907-1994), a Macon professional golfer and businessman. Cotton and other local golfers approached the City of Macon about the need for a public course after the Lakeside Course in Macon closed in the mid-1930s. The mayor of Macon, Charles Bowden, agreed to assist in any way, except financially because the city had no money during the Great Depression to build golf courses. A former, but vacant, airfield in east Macon, known as Miller Field, proved to be the ideal spot to lay out an 18-hole course. With the help of Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor, equipment from various businesses throughout the city, and the sale of subscriptions to fund materials, the course was completed and opened in September 1940.