The Coral Gables Times

Some estimates ran as high as $15,000 a hole, but the community determined "it could be done"

BY RUEL McDANIEL The largest financial outlay went for pulling stumps from the tee areas and fairways. This cost $1,800, mainly for wages for specialists who did not live in the area. "WHEN THE WORK began to lag," Robert Bornscheuer says, "Dan Ramsey would come to my office and we would call men far into the night on Friday and Saturday to get crews for the weekend. When some of those who promised to work failed to show, we got on the phones again and wheedled others into taking their places. I never saw a man work as hard as Dan on any project, even for pay." Although it was a monumental job to lay out the work to be done from day to day and particularly on weekends and then assemble the men for the jobs, Dan Ramsey often swung a pick or manned a saw in place of some man who could not come. When a promised bulldozer failed to arrive, a doctor who had volunteered to arrange a fairway-clearing crew used his own station wagon to push down the underbrush. Several men who had no interest in golf volunteered because they felt that the community needed a good golf course. "The course will be a community asset anyway," one man said. "Besides, I enjoy getting out there and sweating and making calluses on my hands." The committeemen were not at all modest about asking for donations. As a result, they not only obtained virtually all labor for nothing but much of the materials, such as the thousands of feet of pipe for the sprinkler system. Of the $15,000 allotted for the golf course, half went for materials necessary for operating the course after it was built—grass, sprinklers, sand, valves for the pipe, cups for the greens, and equipment for maintaining the greens and fairways. "The secret of our success in building this course with so little money, if there is any secret," says Bob Bornscheuer, "was in taking full advantage of people's desire for recreation. They recognized the value of a golf course, and once they saw that we could really build one with the money we had, they pitched in with enthusiasm." By common consent Dan Ramsey was delegated to drive the first ball off the No. 1 green on February 9, 1956, two and one-half years after the first golf course meeting. In 1960, 426 people played 21,630 rounds on the nine-hole, 3,162-yard, par 36 course. Early in 1961, the same oil and chemical company that donated the land for the first nine holes turned over another 29 acres on which to build nine more holes. "We're dusting off our work cards and equipment lists," says Robert Bornscheuer. "Here we go again."

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