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Show A Notch Above The Rest! Valley. View By KEITH DUNCAN Journal Sports LAYTON - It was last Friday morning, while the Valley View Golf Course was looking like a u inter playground with six inches of snow atop, that the course's head professional Ken Pettingill coni mented "The course just doesn't look the same today as it used to. -- BUT PETTINGILL was re let ring to the snow, hut rather to somi old colored photos taken of the course some 10 years ago. old pictures Jepict The nothing what a golfer will see to day. everything from smooth, rolling fairways with trees galore to n one of Valley View's trademarks, it's immaculate and fast greens. well-know- ITS TAKEN thousands of hours of work and planning to he able t look upon the photos and chuckle.-littleat least for Pettingill and head groundskeepe Scott Starkey. And how- about some consoi tion! Well. Valley View recciv. its biggest pat on the back whe Pettingill. about 12 days ago. surprise piece of mail to find that his course had been selected as one of "America's 7 Best Public Courses. in th.. November issue of Golf Digest. opened up a AND A surprise it was. Pettingill claims he knew absolutely nothing about the magazine's attempt to nominate his Layton course and finally pick it. "To say the least, we feel honored about the selection. Im for sure going to keep these old photos now so people will remember just how bleak it did look and right next to the photos we ll hang up the Digest selection," said Pettingill. GOLF DIGEST i s now in its fourth year of distinguishing America's best public courses and Valley View becomes the first Utah Earns Place Among Americas Top 75 course to ever make the cut. Of the 75 courses selected in the November issue. Valley View was one of the only courses in the intermountain area to get selected. In fact there wasn't a course within at least 500 miles of Valley View to make the list. A course in Denver made the list as did Lake Tahoe's Edgewood. To make the top 75. Valley View beat out 8700 United States public links which clearly puts them in the top one percent. we thought could one day be as good as a country club for the average golfer. VALLEY VIEW, which is just wrapping up its 10th season of play, was finally selected by a committee of 242 prominent golf experts across the country who evaluated the courses on the basis of shot values, "playability," design balance, memorability, esthetics and conditioning. The Utah representatives on the committee included two Bountiful residents Kurt Bosen and Garey Chadwick and a Provo native, William Korns. The county has given us tremendous support. In the early years of a golf course you always lose money because you're trying to build up clientele, finish clubhouses and restrooms, complete and add to your irrigation system, planting trees, putting in cart paths and finish the parking lot. There are a myriad of things that contribute to us losing money in the early years. UNTIL 12 days ago I had no idea this thing was going on. said Pettingill from a warm clubhouse. "1 do know now that the local people on the committee didn't judge us but rather someone outside the state came in to play Utah's nomin- ated golf courses. "It was unbeknownest to us they were coming. They wanted to see our course not spruced up' but its working from a day to day basis. They played the course, wrote up their reports and probably took some pictures. From there they took it back and made the selec- tions." KEN, TICKLED to the max about the recognition Golf Digest has brought his course, didn't for a moment forget those who had put the course in the fine shape it's in. My greens superintendent, Scott Starkey was taken right out of the golf shop and put in charge of making Valley View a golf course saw SCOTTS abilities, as them, were just what we needed. "We immediately developed a maintenance program which we hoped one day would bring us as close as possible to the desired country club conditions. 1 WITHIN THE restrictions we have, I think we've done a magnificent job. , ' BUT OVER the years, if you manage it correctly, you'll get in the black like we are now. In a five year projection from 1985 to 1989 we just made, we should turn back to the county a net profit of $150,000 to $200,000 even after all of our capital expenditures. "It has been a good investment for the county, especially long range, said Pettingill. VALLEY VIEW has already hosted the state's Lady Amateur twice and the course's own three-da- y open has always turned out to be one of Utah's most recognized golfing events. This year the open event was converted to a best-ba- ll event which Ken termed very successful." The designer of the Valley View course was an employee for 10 years of the late Bobby Trent Jones, Bill Hull of Reno. "Hull did a great job in finishing the golf course, he basically did the greens, said Pettingill. PETTINGILL also gave credit to his assistant professional, Dave Kearl w ho h.is een at Valley View for five years now. Also mentioned was Mel Duke, the assistant greens superintendent. Duke, alone, handles the entire irrigation system for the Valley View course. And my hat goes off again to hes done. He is in my opinion one of the state's Starkey for the job finest greens superintendents." said Pettingill. BOTH PETTINGILL and Star-ke- y reside in' the county and both attended nearby Davis High School. Where does Valley Viewgo from here? Pettingill believes theres always room for improvement. OF COURSE money is the key issue and Pettingill knows he is limited in that area. "But for the money we have, we make it the best there is," he said. Improvements that will be made in the future, according to Ken. are things like a clubhouse expansion which might include a full-tim- res- e taurant, planting another 200 trees in the next two weeks (if the snow melts), improving and repairing golf cart paths, a new practice area behind the driving range tees equipped with practice greens and bunkers and in the future an expansion to the driving tees area itself. EACH YEAR Pettingill and his staff sits down and plans and sets goals for the coming year. That led to this years much better policing of play on the course with more course marshalls on hand. Of course one thing we look forward to down the road is host a prestigious golf tournament, maybe the National Pub Links or even the actual Mens State You dont make the list of the "Top 75" public golf courses in America without a lot of hard work. Ken Pettingill, Valley View's-heaprofessional, gets to bask in the limelight after plenty of hours making Valley View one of the countrys best. Top 75 Sweepstakes Begins In November LAYTON Digest, one of America's premiere golfing maga- zines, is currently sponsoring its "Top 75 Sweepstakes." ANYONE who plays one of the Top 75 golf courses listed in the 16th issue of Golf Digest during the month of November. will be allowed to fill out a form and be eligible for top merchandise prizes and a free vacation, Of course that means folks will have to play at Valley View Golf Course or travel to Denver or Lake Tahoe. Valley View won gious honorship the past couple of weeks by being selected to the dis-- . tinguished group. presti-Octob- . Amateur. can guarantee folks we bask too long with this most recent laurel. Weve still got a ways to go, concluded BUT I WHATDOES HARRY GERLACH BELIEVE? arent going to ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: To broaden our tax base and provide jobs, the state, cities, school district, and county must unite and WORK TOGETHER in a common effort to attract clean industry. This can be done without affecting the quality of life in Davis County. VOTE FOR HARRY GERLACH Davis County Commission Political ad paid by Harry Republican Gerlach Davis Ousts Viewmont From Region Four C. C. Perch - SALT LAKE CITY For the first time in several years both the boys and the girls crowned new region champions in cross country this past week. Davis wrestled the boys crown away from Viewmont after the Vikings had won the trophy for the past three years whik the Viking gals took the regim crown from the Davis gals for th. first time since 1979. JUST for the record the Vikiu males also won the junior varsitx division of the region competition in a big way running away Iron everyone. In claiming the region title for the varsity boys the Darts of.Davi piled up 52 points with the Viking in second with 58. Highland an. East were breathing right down tfu Vikes necks as both of their, finished with 59 points while Woods Cross had 134. Bountiful only had two runners compete so they didn't record a team total. WE HAD high hopes of winning the title again" admitted Vikbut ing coach Lynn DuBois. Davis and Highland had beaten us in dual meets but we still felt confi- dent. All of our runners are capable of good times and we were hoping to put it all together for region." Individually Curtis Jones of East won the boys title with John Kimball of Davis in second place. Third spot went to Robby Edwards of the tory as she took top individual honors in a mild upset. It was an upset to some people but not me. She is just a great kid all around not just in athletics. This past few weeks I could really see her come on so I JOE HAWKINS of Davis, Paul knew she could win, admitted Atkinson of Highland. John Pratt DuBois. Davis was favored to win the of Viewmont, and Tim Davis of Davis rounded out the top ten. All team title but the Vikes took the of these runners gained invitations trophy in relatively easy fashion as to the state meet this week along they came up 26 points compared with the top three teams. to 39 for the Darts. Highland Other Viking runners that scored placed third with 83 points folwell were Mike Nelson in 11th lowed by East at 85. place, Allan Sorenson in 16th and Leland Nez was 19th. AMY SESSIONS of Woods Cross, one of the best all season, DESPITE NOT winning his placed second behind Johansen fourth straight region title Coach with Linda Hunter and Cindy DuBois is still optimistic about his Sorenson of the Darts taking the clubs chances in claiming theii next two spots. third straight state crown. "BonneFifth, sixth and seventh place ville and Davis would have to be though belonged to the champioi considered the favorites at state ship Viking team as sophomore but Weber, Highland and us could Melinda McDonald was fifth, win also. senior Kim Ward sixth and junior "All five of our runners have run Kim Trump was seventh. Roundwell this year but never on the ing out the top ten were Magan same day. it's frustrating as a Ause of East, Angie Templeton of coach but maybe this Wednesday Highland and Jennifer Davis of will be the day they all put it Davis. together. Plus Mike Nelson has OTHER members of the chamhad a bad cold so this extra week will give him a chance at getting a pionship Viking squad were Sky little stronger which will help." Mathews. Cindy Trump and Penny Luceo. Of our top seven runners only SOPHOMORE Jennifer Johansen led the Viking women to vic one is a senior so we're excited Leopards with Woods Cross ace Darren Tuttle claiming fourth. Scot Barney of Highland crossed the line fifth just ahead of the first Viking runner Con Fox. -- about the future. As for state for the girls Alta is in a league of their own, they could compete with colleges in this area, DuBois noted, a couple of weeks ago I wouldn't have said this but right now I think John Kimball takes second in Region Four Cross Country Meet CmGSM&Gfi 00 a our gals have a good shot at second place along with Hillcrest and ber. Davis could also place high." 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