I just happen to have known one of the people who first developed the course.
It was then The Auld Course. He was a neighbor, and he and a few other bankers
made the course happen, not without some pain and suffering. Eventually the
financial suffering caused them to close the course. It wasn’t the last time
an owner sold, as can be seen from the following news excerpts:
Unfortunately, the Salt Creek Golf Club will be closing on March 18, 2018.
Highlands Links Golf Group, LLC has been dealing with the rising costs of water
and fewer golfers, and the course has lost money since opening.
October 15, 2012:
Salt Creek, off the beaten path in the southwestern shadow of Mt. Miguel, has
had more than its share of troubles since it opened as The Auld Course in
January 2001. Construction cost overruns and a sizable lease for the Otay
Water District land buried the local group that built the course, and it has
since changed hands a couple of times, with McWethy’s company, Highland Links
Golf Group, purchasing it out of bankruptcy seven months ago.
Warm Regards,
Charlie Hopkins
619 944-2786
Chopkins294@xxxxxxxxx
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Behalf Of ken dorren
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2018 5:54 PM
To: SOGAGG <sogagg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [sogagg] Re: Salt Creek Closure
That would be underhanded if true, hopefully Chula Vista has property use
review boards that would fairly evaluate those type of situations from
occurring, although I'm pretty cynical about those things as well.
You'll always be "Ace" in my book.
Shaft
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Thursday, February 15, 2018, 5:27 PM -0800 from dwayne-kay <dwayne-kay@xxxxxxx
<mailto:dwayne-kay@xxxxxxx> >:
I’m wondering if developers might be behind this, offering up mega bucks for
the land and causing a new lease deal with Salt Creek to be dead on arrival.
Kind of takes the shine off of a hole in one when you tell folks it happened on
a course that doesn’t even exist anymore....
Ah, one cannot stop “progress.”
/Ace
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On Feb 15, 2018, at 5:15 PM, ken dorren <kdorren22@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:kdorren22@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Any prospects that u know of for a new leasee? If not, what r they saying
would happen to the property, probably too early to tell. Tragic, had a lot of
fun there. Maybe you can transfer your namesake hole to another course.
Shaft
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Thursday, February 15, 2018, 3:51 PM -0800 from Dwayne Junker
<dwayne.junker@xxxxxxx <mailto:dwayne.junker@xxxxxxx> >:
SOGAGG Colleagues,
Salt Creek golf course will close down March 18. They were unable to come to
an agreement for a new lease that would have allowed them to remain operational
and make a profit. A sign of the times.
Best,
/Ace
