| ZACK McMILLIN / On Golf
Web site offers interesting tidbits on Frayser course
One of the best local golfing Web sites promotes Davy
Crockett, the wooded city course in Frayser.
Go to the site at www.davycrockettgolf.com, and you will find a comprehensive breakdown
of the course, its history and its facilities.
The course layout section is creative and amusing.
Some examples:
 "Hole No. 2
is a par 5 that is as long as the Funnel Cake line at the Mid-South Fair."
"Hole No. 6,
a fairly easy hole, until you reach the green that tilts towards you and seems to be made
of glass and WD-40."
And our personal favorite: "Hole No. 18 finishes the
course with the compassion of a Grizzly Bear. The green is open, inviting and as slanted
as a Commercial Appeal editorial."
Buddy McEwen, the head pro at Crockett, said the Web site
has been in use for two years and "is well worth the couple hundred dollars it costs
us per year."
"Especially in the spring and fall, we get lots
of folks who come into town and they find out about us through the Web site,'' McEwen
says. "We probably average a couple of rounds per week."
Martin Norris, a friend of McEwen's who works at Kudzu's
near downtown, developed the site and administers it.
"He says it's a labor of love for him,"
McEwen said. "I'm as old-fashioned as you get, but here we are one of the first
courses on the Internet."
McEwen said Crockett is ready for summer.
"It's gorgeous out here right now," McEwen
said.
Contact staff reporter Zack McMillin at 529-2564; E-mail:
mcmillin@gomemphis.com
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