coming in from out of town on Sunday.. anyone playing. I havent played mt. airy for about 2 years and I've heard it's changed quite a bit.

I am working very hard on getting all that taken care of, problem is we are at the mercy of the Park department. I have given them all the info and I have been calling and emailing them every other day with no response for awhile now. Hopefully I will hear something from them real soon. This is the frustrating part, just waiting for them to decide.

what time do you plan on hitting up Airy Cali? might get a few locals to come and show ya the course.

I know that, problem is back in the day those baskets did not come with sleeves like today. So I am trying to get the Park dept. to buy all the sleeves we need for the existing pin locations and all the alternate sleeves so we can do it all at the same time. I did get a hold of Larry this week and he was extremely apologetic for not returning my calls and emails. I will be meeting with him next week and should have a definite answer on this and other issues real soon. Current holes 1 and 3 actually have mach 2 chain assemblies and I am going to try and get Larry to get the mach 3 tops. We are getting off to a very slow start this year and with all the budget cuts I see the city are taking, things are going to be difficult and I have already started planing fundraising efforts/sponsorship to increase revenue for the course.

Everyone keep your fingers crossed and hopefully we can get all this and more accomplished this year. As soon as I get the go ahead from the Parks dept. we will be hard at work with the renovations and I will be calling on everyone and anyone to help out.

Fred, he said that he, the club and the park are working on it. It's going to get done - just maybe not "right when Fred wants it done". As John Stossel says "gimme a break"!

The club bought the baskets, Adam has been working with the Park for the last couple of years and we are galvanizing the baskets. More?

Dont make me separate you two!!!

I'll make this easy for ya's. Club members and a few business's made donations to purchase the baskets when the course was put in. As soon as they where in the ground they all became property of Cincinnati Parks department and we no longer own anything on their land. This being said, they where basically donated to the city and all the people of our community. That is why I am trying so hard to get the Parks to set aside part of their budget for course maintenance and renovations.

I will be in need of volunteers very soon on the weekends, I will try to schedule this around other events but sometimes that is unavoidable.
more to come soon and thanks for the support and patience.

Sounds like it is the park district that should doing  the repairs,

I remember a time when Scott Schmidt took his truck with his welder to every basket at Mt Airy and welded them to their posts so they would not get stolen. The day he did that we were playing on then hole #2 (now #15) when a Cincinnati police car drove by and stopped. The officer asked us why that truck was at the bottom of the hill, we explained, he said OK and drove off.
I do believe work can be done at that course by others besides the parks department but of course I would also make sure the parks dept. knows you're going to do it before hand.

My 2 extra cents.

As of Thursday, **all the old DGA baskets are out** for re-galvanization.

Thanks to those who are contributing to this effort.

Can't wait to see the baskets shine after they're back in!

They are going to look great when they are done and back in the ground. Glad to see such things are being done to preserve the greatness of this course =)