Idalou Golf Tour.

Lorenzo yes that's the location of the Idalou Invitational Golf Tour. this year. For some reason we don't have enough schools with golf teams in the 3-A ranks so our middle school team will not get to play in a district tour. But they are going to go and play at our old district tour Idalou. And the bad part about that is Idalou closed there golf course. My friend Jimmy Senz went broke over there and the city repossessed the course and sold it to some one who has not open it back up to the public. I think it is going to go private not sure.
Anyway so the Idalou tour. now is played at Lorenzo and it is a nice little track small tiny greens with a lot of slope and crown not long but OK. There are some elm trees and the fairway are hard and dry I don't think they have water for the fairways so if it does not rain well, you get the picture. The greens do have at lest 8 to 10 feet of elevation not like Abernathy the greens are right on the ground  maybe 12"inches of elevation. The tee boxes are slightly elevated to. Everything considered it is a course well worth the 10 dollars to walk 18 holes and 5 dollars for students. It is not comparable to say Reese and Reese is not comparable to the Rawls Course. As you spend more money you play better harder courses. That's just the way of the world. But for my money the course at Idalou was the best one for these school tour. Because it is long and it was built by the city for there waste water treatment with a substantial grant it was pretty much done right. It is a nice little 9 hole track. It is to bad the city did not reopen it. And sold it to someone
who just took it off the market. It was an inside deal because it was never advertised it just sold and for less than 1/2 of what the city sold it to Jimmy for. That don't sound right but a small town. Nepotism Cronyism and corruption go hand and hand. Sounds like a brother in-law deal to me. That is the only reason they took it from him was someone in that town wanted it. So they all stopped going to play golf out there and would not support it anymore that is when he could not make the money to keep the course in shape and the greens he was losing them and that was one of the stipulation of his contract. He had to maintain the greens.  Which is hard to do with on money. You have to baby that bent grass. That is enough of that. Now only 5 boys and 5 girls get to play Monday in the tour. but everyone gets to go I think that is great even if your skills are not quite there yet you still get to participate by going and help find balls or keep score or something that is great .So everyone have a good tour Monday and remember you play because it's fun and you are good at it........