(Seguin) — The city of Seguin wants to continue to encourage more military members to play a round, or two, or 20 at the Starcke Park Golf Course.
The Seguin City Council on Tuesday approved a new fee schedule for active duty and retired military members. It will provide discounts on their cost to play at the municipal course.
Golf Course Manager Bruce Allen says they started offering some of these discounts earlier this summer, and the response has been tremendous. He says hundreds of military members have come to Seguin to enjoy the newly renovated course.
“When we reopened the golf course in June, we offered military discounts for the first time. It’s been very well appreciated. And since I sent you that memo, we’re up to 690 uses since then. That’s just (play) during the week. At Council Carlsson’s request, we would like to offer memberships, (including) a discount on memberships and a discount on players’ cards. The memberships will only be for Seguin residents. Players’ cards will be for anybody that plays a lot. A players’ card — it’s for 20 rounds in six months. And so if you play a lot, we reward you by giving you that discount. We would like to do that to all our military members that come from out of town and play,” said Allen.
Councilman John Carlsson originally made the recommendation to offer the discounts, the Golf Advisory Board and now the Seguin City Council also agreed.