Sixth green at Wild Marsh
as a golf course and valuable green space in a growing community. Today, the City continues to operate the golf course and leases the restaurant and banquet space to a private purveyor. Beyond a golf course, the facility serves as a walking park during periods of course closure and cross country ski and snowshoe trails are groomed in winter for free public use. The natural setting provides a unique experience, bordered by two lakes with numerous natural wetlands and wooded areas. Wildlife abounds the property and high emphasis is placed on environmental steward-
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ship. The clubhouse offers a full service restaurant year-round with wedding and banquet space. Wild Marsh was constructed as a “member for a day� facility, with a modern championship style design including bentgrass tees, greens and fairways, and well bunkered greens with high-flashed faces that were such a popular trend at the time. In recent years, the facility has refocused the business model to fit a more broad scale of golfer to be more in line with a municipal course. While we still pride ourselves as offering one of the best conditioned tracts in the area, we