What your Bailout money bought

In case you have not been following to closely the auto bailout story. If you are all in support of the UAW workers against the evil corporation. I hope your pockets are deep enough for this is what your money is getting. Snobbery and elitism.


http://www.michigangolfmagazine.com/reviews/black-lake.html

from their website:

The Rees Jones-built championship golf course located near Cheboygan received a Golf Digest designation as the No. 2 “Best New Upscale Public Course” in North America for 2000.

It’s a credit to Black Lake to come in second in the category of Best New Upscale, because it’s a very competitive division to be in,” Jones said. “There were 256 golf courses that were submitted this year, and Black Lake even had some points deducted because they didn’t allow walking all the time. It’s pretty incredible.”

With over 1,000 acres to work with, Jones designed a spacious 300-acre course that has become a must-play venue for those who love classic golf course design combined with the aesthetics of natural wetlands.

“ What makes that site so intriguing is that it’s a natural piece of ground with sandy soil with ample land to space the holes where they should be,” Jones said. “It enables you to vary your features easily in order to optimize the topography.”

Black Lake is carved out of pines and hardwoods and runs perpetually through and around wetlands, while featuring a traditional, classic layout with wide fairways and target bunkers.

“ The wetlands really add a positive element to all of the golf courses today,” Jones said. “It enables us to locate the greens and tees and fairways on the upland.”

Native trees such as ash, aspen, beech, birch, hemlock, maple, oak, red pine and white pine outline the course and provide habitat for an array of wildlife species in the area, including bald eagle, beaver, coyote, duck, fox, osprey, owl, stork and white tail deer.

“ Usually, it’s just you and the deer and the squirrels playing golf,” director of golf Pam Phipps said. “My favorite courses are the ones with no homes around them.”

The course features bent grass conditions throughout except for accents on the fairways where bluegrass is mixed. The golf course is heavily tree-lined and isolated.

“ Every hole is a great golf hole, and the neat thing about it is that this course will be like it is now in 30 years, because there isn’t going to be a bunch of condos put out there,” Phipps said. “Some of the courses being developed now are great, but they lose some of the appeal when housing developments go up around them.”

The wide, well-groomed fairways provide ample room for big hitters. Target bunkers lurk in the fairways. The greens are accented by even more sand. A couple of doglegs create some interesting shot options. YADDA, YADDA, YADDA!

http://www.blacklakegolf.com/

Black Lake Golf Club is the newest addition to the UAW’s Walter and May Reuther Family Education Center.

The UAW selected one of golf’s most acclaimed course architects, Rees Jones, to design an environmentally responsible, championship caliber course. It was a challenge eagerly embraced by Jones, Golf World Magazine’s “Architect of the Year” in 1995.

This is part of why the unions want money. The Golf Course has been loosing money.

http://theunionnews.blogspot.com/2008/09/uaw-squanders-dues-on-golf-resort.html

The UAW International's golf course and education center operations on 1,000 acres near Onaway have together lost $23 million over the past five years, independent audits obtained by the Free Press show.

Both are run as for-profit corporations, according to paperwork filed with the U.S. Department of Labor, and the UAW has been propping them up with loans."There's a lot of debate over what to do," said Arthur Wheaton, a union expert from Cornell University.

"They've been having trouble there trying to get enough people to go through there to justify the expense," he added.The facilities are reminders of another time when the autoworkers' union was flush with dues-paying members.

But now the U.S. auto industry is losing money, the UAW is losing members and some people are questioning the need to keep the money-losing operations.

The Union is upset because their membership has dropped and they just are not sucking in enough money. Well if they didn't spend it on things like Golf Co arses maybe they would have some money, no?



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