City of Boulder, CO Parks & Recreation, 5 Oct 2010

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From YouTube: Flatirons Golf - Inside Boulder

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City of Boulder - Inside Boulder Flatirons Golf

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Welcome back to inside boulder we're at the city's flatirons golf course with golf director, doug cook, talking about what are some of the options and the history of the golf course doug welcome to inside boater. Well, thanks.

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So doug, what is the history of the golf course? How old is it.

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Well, the golf course was established as a as a golf course in 1938.

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It's always been owned by the city, but it's been managed by a number of different uh entities like the boulder municipal sports, complex boulder country club flatiron's country club. But since 1985 the city of boulder has owned and operated it completely as a as a public golf course.

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So the golf course isn't a country club anymore, but certainly it's that quality. Is there a fee involved for for joining it or is it strictly t-time fees.

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Mostly t-time fees daily fee play here, we do have an annual pass or a lot of frequent player options. If you like to play a lot of golf primarily, we hang our hat on daily feed play mostly family oriented golfers. So.

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You mentioned family oriented if, if I'm new to golf, is there the opportunity to take golf lessons here.

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There are a lot of chances to play golf here. We do uh small group lessons to private lessons to big programs like we have one of a nationally recognized junior golf program here at flatirons.

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And what's the age limit to start taking golf lessons.

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Well, um our chip shots program, which is an offshoot of our junior program, actually starts kids at age four and uh gave a lesson last summer to a guy who was 94.. So some four to 94 is where we're our kind of our our comfort zone.

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So after you've taken a couple of golf lessons here and you've learned to drive and putting things are there tournaments? You can compete in at the flat irons golf course.

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Yeah we host a variety of tournaments uh throughout the year, our our main tournament that we host every year is the boulder city, amateur, there's, a junior division, a net division and a championship and also a senior championship.

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And have we had any golf celebrities come out of those kinds of tournaments.

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Well, the the tournament's been held in boulder since 1925.. We actually have a legacy trophy up in the in the golf shop that lists all the winners since 1925 and you'll see names that have played the pga tour all over it, such as jonathan k, steve jones, hail, irwin, they've, all won the boulder city, amateur.

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So I assume that, along with those tournament, plays, there's also the opportunity to rent the golf facility for charity events or corporate outings is that is that true? And how would you do that.

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It's easy to do: we host a lot of outings as we call them or charity fundraisers and uh we're real good at it. We put out a good event and it's a pretty value price compared to some of the other golf courses around.

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And is that information online somewhere and how much notice you need to book? The golf course.

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You know the big events as much notice as we can, as we can have.

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We take public tea times, 10 days in advance, so we need more notice than 10 days, but we could pull it together, pretty fast, pretty fast and we have in the past, but most events will plan out six months or so in advance and they can uh go to our website at flatironsgolf.com and get a tournament brochure and read up on it or just give us a call we're open every uh every time. The sun is up we're here. Answering the phone at 442-7851.

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So doug it's a great facility we have here. I understand that the flat irons golf course recently had a designation from the audubon society. What was that about.

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Oh, that's true: it's all about values, really, we've always valued on uh environmental responsibility here at the golf course and really for the past 20 years, you know, being part of the city, we've operated on under very strict um environmental responsibility guidelines and really getting the audubon certification kind of puts a stamp of approval on what we've always done here.

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Our water conservation efforts, our water quality, our wildlife habitats, our chemical use and reduction, and safety programs, we're all examined by the audubon society and all certified.

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So it's great to know that we have a golf course and not only is great play but is also conservation friendly with great views of the mountain. Is it a golf course? That's open, 12 months out of the year.

B

It is it, is, um you know, november, through february. We call that our season of opportunity um and in colorado you know, there's a lot of opportunity, usually in the winter, a lot of 60 degree days and and we're usually open half of every month throughout the winter.

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And where can we find more information about the golf course, the season, the opportunities here well.

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You can always call us at the golf shop but to go to flatironsgolf.com.

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We've got all kinds of information on there: our prices, our frequent player programs, our instruction programs, a big environmental section of the site to explain in detail what we've done environmentally here- and I don't know if I mentioned our lesson program too. So.

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Doug thanks very much for joining us on inside boulder. Today, thanks for having us, we've been speaking with doug cook, director of golf at the flat irons golf course and we're back with more inside boulder after.

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