Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, July 13, 1961, page 40 (of 44)
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WE BUILT A GOLF COURSE FOR $15,000
PETE LEDOUX looked across the top of a 20-inch log and grinned at the man on the other end of the crosscut saw. "We'd better take a breather," he said. Pete's regular job was clearing right of ways for a pipeline construction outfit. His partner, George Louviere, jeweler, flopped down on the log and wiped sweat from his indoors face. "Thanks," he said. "I'll get the swing of it soon, I hope. This is the first real muscle work I've done in 30 years. You don't exactly build up stamina leaning on a watchmaker's table or selling jewelry over the counter." Both men were volunteer workers on the golf course at Sulphur, Louisiana, being built by Calcasieu Community Center and Playground District No. 2. Out of a bond issue of $350,000 voted for recreation facilities throughout the district, $15,000, and not a penny more, had been set aside to build a nine-hole golf course. It was plain that the $15,000 had to go a long way. Men with experience in laying out golf courses looked at the site, deep in the heavily timbered lowlands, and shook their heads. "It can't be done. Not for $15,000. Not for $30,000." Estimates ran as high as $15,000 per hole. It was up to the citizens of the district either to forget their dream of a community golf course or to get together and, by doing as much of the work as possible themselves, get the maximum mileage out of the money. In August, 1953, golf enthusiasts held a meeting to discuss ways and means. At this gathering, Rex Deaton was named chairman of a committee to plan and lay out the golf course on land donated by a chemical company, with a 99-year, no-money lease. Dan Ramsey headed a committee to organize and carry out work on the course. R. L. Nelson, chairman of the finance committee, launched the first phase of the program by mailing letters to every golfer in the area, asking for donations of equipment, material, and labor. As the answers came back to Recreation Director Robert Bornscheuer (who had agreed to act as coordinator), they were processed and classified and then given to Ramsey, whose job it was to use the proffered labor and equipment to best advantage. Women volunteered to get on the telephone and call workers. As the job progressed, as many as 200 volunteers worked on Saturdays and Sundays—doing everything from driving bulldozers to picking roots out of the scooped-up earth that eventually would be greens. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC barriers faded as soon as the workers hit the site. A car dealer worked side by side with a mechanic's helper from a competitor's service department. A chemical-company vice president manned one end of a saw that was pulled at the other end by a day laborer. "And if anybody tells you the Old Man's soft, don't you believe it," the laborer declared. "After a couple of days, he could take stroke for stroke with me—and that work is my regular job." The only paid worker on the entire project was the operator of certain heavy equipment. One contractor donated his equipment to excavate, load, and unload 40 carloads of sand for the tees and certain fairway areas. The district paid only for the actual cost of the sand and transportation.