City of Toccoa Continues Golf Course Improvements

The city of Toccoa continues to make progress on improvements out at the Pines golf course.

On Monday, city commissioners unanimously approved spending $25,000 to move the large metal maintenance building at the golf course from its current location by the Pro Shop to a new location adjacent to a small maintenance building elsewhere on the property.

Toccoa City Manager Billy Morse said he feels moving the building is the best option for a number of reasons.

“We are restoring the Pro Shop to its historical appearance and that building is the first thing you see from Falls Road across the lake,” said Morse. “The large metal building is also located within a few feet of the lake side. I think that location could be better used for some other purpose. I think moving the building away from the lake creates a buffer, increasing the distance between what is our maintenance and our drinking water supply and putting the two buildings together also consolidates the maintenance operations in one location.”

The city is hiring A&S Building Systems of Toccoa at a cost of $25,000 to move the building.

According to Morse, that company installed the original building.

Morse went on to say that the city will use nearly $28,000 in savings the city had from money it had set aside to spend on the irrigation system at the course to fund moving the building, so the overall golf course budget will not increase.

This building move is just one of a number of projects going on out at the nine-hole, city-owned golf course off of Black Mountain Road as the city tries to get the course re-open this summer.

Morse said that work on the course is still going well.

“We are continuing to maintain it and clean it up,” said Morse, adding that the clean-up work is focusing on clearing brush, limbs, and debris from areas of the course. “We are in the middle of installing the new irrigation system.”

Morse added that crews are also working on renovating and restoring the Pro Shop at the course.

The course has been closed since late last summer.

City officials said the goal is to re-open the course for public play this August.