Copper Hill Golf Club
The Copper Hill Golf Club is a nine-hole public golf course in East Granby, Connecticut.
History
The Copper Hill Golf Club was designed and built by Alan Bisset and opened in 1956.[1] In the late 1970s, Vic Svenberg began leasing the course from Bisset and operating it.[2] This ended when, in 1999, entrepreneur Lisa Wilson-Foley, owner of the much larger Blue Fox Run Golf Course, bought the course from Bisset for $1.3 million. The multi-millionaire relocated her two swans, Ebony and Ivory, to the course from her Simsbury, Connecticut mansion. In keeping with the naming of her other entertainment businesses, she changed the name to Fox Run at Copper Hill.[3] Despite plans for significant improvements, course condition declined during her ownership.[2]
In 2009, Wilson-Foley leased the property to Paul Banks, a golf pro who had owned the nearby Copper Hill Golf Academy and Driving Range, which he had built in 1994. Banks is the son-in-law of former operator Vic Svenberg.[2] He purchased the property the following year and brought its condition back up to what it had been before Wilson-Foley’s ownership. The name was changed back to Copper Hill Golf Club.[2]
The course hosts a number of local high school teams.[4][5]
Course
The course is set on 95 wooded acres in the Tariffville Gorge.[3] The course features a mix of par 3, 4, and 5 holes with 11 bunkers and water on five holes.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "COPPER HILL GOLF CLUB EAST GRANBY, CT". cognizantgolf.com. Cognizant Golf. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Jensen, Tim. "West Suffield Resident Breathing New Life Into Copper Hill Golf Club". patch.com. Patch. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lemos, Phil. "GOLF COURSE GETS A NEW OWNER". courant.com. The Hartford Courant. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ↑ Staff, Journal Inquirer. "Stafford beats East Granby". journalinquirer.com. The Journal Inquirer. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ↑ Staff, Journal Inquirer. "BOYS GOLF". journalinquirer.com. The Journal Inquirer. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
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