Tag: Meeker Golf Course

HOLE-IN-ONE!

In what bodes well for a good season at the Meeker Golf Course, Meeker local Tad Sullivan got a rare hole-in-one on the seventh hole last weekend. Congratulations! BOBBY GUTIERREZ PHOTO

GRATITUDE FOR GOLF COURSE ASSISTANCE

Berry Bros. continued their 54-year commitment of helping the Meeker Golf Course survive as they took on numerous projects lately. With a ditch bank faltering, Bert Berry and son Dillon volunteered their services to correct the issue by building a reinforced bank. Long a supporter of the course since family[Read More…]

SPRING—LOADING…

Members of the Rio Blanco Golf Association got a jump on spring this past week as volunteers shoveled and blew the snow off the greens. The winter’s snow and ice layers suffocate the fragile bent grass putting surfaces and getting the snow off allows Mother Nature to start her healing[Read More…]

A Golf Story

MEEKER | Once upon a time ago, along in the 1980s sometime, three Meeker “Yahoos” by the names of Ray McKee, Bill Zobel and Tom Pilkington decided they needed to play a round of golf. So, they each rounded up some clubs and drove out to the Meeker Golf Course[Read More…]

RIO BLANCO COUNTY CUP …

Members of the Meeker Golf Course Association are pictured with the Rio Blanco County Cup, which will be displayed for the next year in Meeker’s Clubhouse after Rio Blanco County’s east-side golfers outplayed the westsiders in the annual two-day event. Twenty-four golfers from Rangely’s Cedar Ridges Golf Course traveled to[Read More…]

Golf course seeks support from Town

MEEKER I Meeker’s nine-hole golf course is in need of new management according to Tim Nelson, speaking on behalf of the Rio Blanco Golf Association (RBGA) at the April 22 meeting of the Meeker Board of Trustees.  The RBGA is “opening a conversation” with the Town of Meeker, and plans[Read More…]

Golf fundraiser tomorrow

MEEKER I Civil contracting company IHC Scott (completed the Hwy. 13 improvement project between Meeker and Rifle) along with participating vendors and clients are hosting the first annual “Scramble for a Cause” fundraiser Friday, Sept. 17 at the Meeker Golf Course. Proceeds will benefit the Meeker Education Foundation, which supports[Read More…]