The Montgomery Country Club --

Celebrated it’s Centennial in 2003

Last year The Montgomery Country Club celebrated it’s 100th birthday. Red Aker with Tieco remembers coming to live in Montgomery in 1972. "Cecil Moses was superintendent at Montgomery at that time. Cecil had been with the Club many years. He used to reminisce about mowing the fairways with mules pulling the mowing equipment. That was before tractors were being applied to the turf industry."

The golf course maintenance is now outsourced through International Golf Maintenance who hired Jeremy as Superintendent.

A rich history belongs to the club, but it is looking to the future. A new building is under construction that will house a tennis shop, youth room, workout facilities, aerobics room, cardio room and grill. The club has recently approved a major landscape renovation project for the entire property. The scope of the project will include roadside landscaping and screening, clubhouse landscaping, building a new pond with a creek re-circulating back into the new pond, a tree program and golf course landscaping on a large scale.

The project is set to start in the fall according to superintendent, Jeremy Sutton, and "We will most likely install one or two tee boxes with a variety of Seashore paspalum to see how cold tolerant the grass is and how well it will work in prairie soils and in the Montgomery climate." It looks like Jeremy is going to be busy, so it’s a good think we got him to host a meeting in May!