Cobbossee Colony Golf Course
A public 9-hole golf course in Monmouth, Maine
2012 Cobbossee Colony Golf Course News
Dear Golfers,
Welcome to the 2012 Cobbossee Golf Season. We hope to have a better year than 2011, when Cobbossee Road was closed from April through August. Nine rain out days in May 2011 didn't help much either. This year there is a brand new, expensive bridge crossing the end of Lake Cobbossee and rain should fall only at night, so things are looking up. Speaking of up, US Cellular should be building a 140 foot tall cell tower about 100 yards off the first fairway this spring. It will take some doing to bounce a drive off the tower, but we know that some of you are capable of doing it.
We don't have any major projects in mind this year, but will probably find a few things to work on to make the course more fun to play. Painting a bull's eye on the fairway mower has been mentioned. We will gladly listen to suggestions about course improvements, although any suggestions involving the big ash tree on #7 and a chain saw are nonstarters. Due to the mild winter it is possible that there will be a lot of turkeys (feathered turkeys) running around the course this year. We have no use for them as they tend to use the greens and tees as bathrooms. Anyone who wants to take them home, breathing or not, may do so as far as we are concerned. Bag limit is 50 per day. (humor not cleared with Maine Dept of Fish and Game)
The only price increases are for memberships, $455 single, $610 couple, non-member cart rentals for nine holes, $14 per cart and large buckets of range balls, $8 and $6 for non-members and members respectively. If you are 72 or older and were a member last year, the price you paid last year is the one you'll pay this year. It is one of the few benefits of growing older. This year you do not have to have a single digit handicap to be a member. And, as always, you can pay your membership cumulatively. Just pay the daily fee as you golf in the spring, and let us know this is towards the cumulative membership, so we'll keep track of how much you have paid and by 1 July, you can either pay the difference between what you have paid to date and the membership price, or decide not to be a member. Members get special price reductions on driving cars, pull carts and range balls, can play in the club championship and presidents cup and may receive a free cord of firewood from Raymond, split and delivered. Delivery time could take quite a while. We intend to again have reciprocal agreements with several other clubs where you can take your Cobbossee membership card and $10 or $15 and walk 18 holes at the other courses. This benefit has been well received in past years.
There were six golfers who were so good that they scored a hole in one at Cobbossee in 2011. They are Rocky Towle, Mike Conley, Mark Richards, Joshua Rice, Barry Pulsifer and Dave Robertson. They didn't take lessons to do so, but should you want to take lessons, Chad Hopkins will be giving them. Contact him at 407-756-9852, or tigerchad03@yahoo.com. Early season prices will be $15 for an individual half-hour lesson, $25 for an hour, $10 per person for group lessons (4 people or more) lasting an hour.