PGA professional golfer and Director of Murfreesboro City Golf Courses Tracy Wilkins told the Murfreesboro Rotary Club that ground will be broken next month on a six to nine hole course that will be used for building confidence and team work among area youth and at-risk youngsters.
Wilkins noted that guidelines for the course will assure that adults are on the special course to act as mentors and not use it as an overflow golf course . . .
He noted that an old 14-acre city demolition site that borders the Old Fort Golf Course, Stones River, Lytle Creek and the railroad tracks will be used. It will be just off the Medical Center Parkway near Hale Court.
The city has pledged money to help build the facility, but the major funding is through the Wadsworth Foundation, a group that focuses on at-risk and youth.They have given $150,000 at this time.
Wilkins told Rotary members that they would be building partnerships with groups and organizations like the Boys and Girls Club, MTSU, Tennessee School for the Blind, civic clubs and other groups concerned with the well-being of area youth.
He said the goal is to have the new golf course open by this coming September.
For more information and a map of proposed course
