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Just a heads up that the rangers at Champoeg will be closing some (about half) of the holes during this winter of 2011-2012. Current rumor mill has holes 1-7 as the holes to be closed (baskets removed).

The thinking is that the grass will grow back under the holes in the winter. Not sure of the soundness of this approach, but I think that the rangers wishes and desires are to be respected. I suppose that they could just pull the course if they wanted to.

It seems as if alternate pin placements could be installed and used, but this is a heritage area, and so perhaps this is out of the question.