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Show Painted Hills Golf Course attracts interest ' Rambling green fairways encircling colorful mountains aaid foliage affords the Painted Paint-ed Hills Golf course, in Cedar City, a natural setting enjoyed enjoy-ed by few courses anywhere. , Golfers who regularly battle bat-tle the tricky 3115 yard, par 36 layout, are working hare, to keep it that way through their men's Golf Association. Frequently they schedule membership matches to help finance many improvement which are adding the finishing finish-ing touches to the nine hole links. An example of this is the Two Man Best all Tourney and Steak Fry which was held on Wednesday, May 6. Tournament Tourna-ment chairman, Gayle Adams, of Cedar City, teamed a 0-15 andicapper with a player carrying 16 or more, while association as-sociation president, Kent (Red) Dover, directed the culinary cul-inary activities. According to Dover, all proceeds from the $3 entry fee will be applied to the construction of new shelters on the course teeing areas. Other improvements scheduled sche-duled for completion this year include air conditioning for the clubhouse, and water fountains foun-tains to be placed near the shelters. A practice putting green, planted in the fall, is in usp now. and a new driv- ing range, recently seeded, should be ready soon. ;. Painted Hills golf professional, profes-sional, Brent Orchard, has coordinated co-ordinated the efforts of city officials and the local golf association to build a better course. Orchard stated that he is more than pleased with the progress made since 1965 when the course was constructed con-structed on the city's old dump. . , During a golfing year, Cedar linksteirs experience many situations not found on large metropolitan courses. The roughs and hazzards which I have been provided by nature are uniquely different than J their man made counterparts. counter-parts. Small animals, such as jrabbits, squirrels, and many kinds of birds are all a part of the landscape, and even a grazing deer is not too distracting, dis-tracting, unless his rack is extraordinary. S In warmer summer months, an occasional rattlesnake seeking comfort on the cool green grass, usually finds instead, in-stead, the business end of an excited seven or eight iron. But it's all part of the game in Cedar City and the golfer's who play at Painted Hills en-,pjy en-,pjy every minute of it. |