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# Golf course for all?
- URL: https://www.redeyebr.com/golf-course-for-all/
- Published: 2026-09-25T02:50:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-25T02:50:15.000Z
- Description: BREC considers opening City Park Golf Course for other uses. The commission also acknowledged the master plan, a small step toward eventual implementation.
- Author: Mukul Verma

BREC could open the City Park Golf Course to other forms of recreation, following the lead of courses worldwide that are finding ways to serve more than golfers.

**Why it matters:** The idea could settle some of the simmering arguments over the course in the master planning process. One side wants the nine-hole course left untouched, while others want to open the land to different uses.

- It also could make room for runners, walkers, kite flyers and children who want to spin until they get dizzy and fall down.

**The details:** At a BREC Commission meeting Thursday evening, Central Mayor Wade Evans, who serves as a BREC commissioner, said he introduced the idea of sharing the course with other users to the golf committee. The panel wanted to discuss it further.

- Evans sees an opportunity to make the land available to more people while reducing golf-related losses through revenue-generating programs such as movie nights and food-truck roundups.
- Commissioners encouraged Evans to keep digging into the idea, including how BREC could balance time reserved for golf with time set aside for other activities.

**Meanwhile:** BREC accepted the master plan for City-Brooks Community Park through a resolution that also made clear the commission was not approving the implementation of any part of it.

- Commissioner Carl Stages offered a separate resolution that would have stopped any work stemming from the plan for 12 months.
- Several commissioners, including Lon Vicknair and Chairman Mike Polito, pushed back. They said the board’s role is to set policy and let BREC’s staff—especially with a new superintendent—do its job.
- Stages’ resolution was soundly defeated. He represents the Baker mayor on the commission.

**The bigger picture:** The master plan would be carried out in phases, with the first few years focused on improving the broader City-Brooks park area. That means the golf course is unlikely to be reduced in size anytime soon.

- That timeline to reduce the course size also could delay projects that might otherwise move quickly, including adding a carousel and creating natural areas along Dalrymple Drive.

**The bottom line:** The commission is moving toward opening the golf course to other uses while tiptoeing around the contentious master plan, but nudging it forward in the process.

**The next big thing:** Can supporters get a conservancy to oversee the park and University Lakes moving? That would be the primary way to raise the private donations needed to build and maintain the public spaces more quickly.

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