Dating to the 1940s, the club was one of the oldest private country clubs in Montgomery, Ala. and once a “crowded and popular place to go” in the state capital city. But its operators now feel the club’s time has “just come and gone,” and plan to quietly close its doors.
Bonnie Crest Country Club, one of the oldest private country clubs in Montgomery, Ala., will close on September 26, reports WSFA, a local television station.
The club was built in the 1940s, WSFA reports, and sits off Federal Drive in the state capital city, just across from the Garrett Coliseum, a venue for events including horse shows, rodeos and the Alabama National Fair, It was once a “crowded and popular place to go,” the station reports, but now its operators, who declined to go on camera for an interview, say the time for the club has “just come and gone.” They are planning to just close the doors quietly on September 26th, when the golf course’s final tee time will be offered, at noon.
“I’m sorry to see it close,” Mack Perkins, who has lived with his wife right behind the course for almost 40 years, told WSFA. For decades, Perkins told the station, he has enjoyed the view from his backyard. “I live right off the #10 fairway,” he says. “I can look out and see the golfers pass.”
Perkins, who described Bonnie Crest as “your neighborhood-type course,” said he was once a member there himself, but not for the past 10 years. From where he stands, Perkins told the station that he can see he’s not the only one who stopped paying dues.
“The last two or three years, there’s been quite a bit of decrease,” he told WSFA. “I can look out my backyard and don’t see that many.”
So he’s not surprised that the club is closing. “Neighborhoods are changing,” he said. But he also added a question: “Now what—what are they going to do with the property?”
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