A truly great convergence of public use with the river, which also provides those traversing the H Street bridge a nice view point of the congruence of golf course with the Parkway and the river.
Campus Commons Golf Course open again
A tightknit group of golfers lamented the closing of Campus Commons for repairs in 2005. It's open again, and old friends are back.
By Ryan Lillis - Bee Staff Writer
Published 12:00 am PDT Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Robert McMillan had just finished walking nine holes at the Campus Commons Golf Course on Monday morning, refusing -- as usual -- to keep score. Sitting in the shade on a wooden bench, he was asked to summarize these past 29 months, a difficult period during which the tidy course had been shuttered.
"Seems like a hundred years," he proclaimed.
Bob Stowers -- who has been playing the little course on the banks of the American River as long as anybody -- was asked the same question.
"It's like going home," he replied, speaking from his real home in North Highlands. "We've been on a long, long trip."
Campus Commons, a nine-hole, par-29 course in the Campus Commons neighborhood, is hardly world-renowned. You'll never see it featured on the Golf Channel, and it's doubtful many people outside Sacramento have even heard of it.
But what Campus Commons has that many other courses do not is a community, a tightknit network of hackers, duffers and spot-on veterans who, as Stowers put it, consider the course their second home.
The course reopened this past weekend after a county sewer project that started in February 2005 tore up a big chunk of four fairways. For those who hadn't played the course before the line was added, it's difficult to even tell where the massive, 25-foot-deep trench was dug.
"It's just magnificent," Stowers said. "It's better than it's ever been."
