University Park Golf Club set to soon reopen

Still, the newly rehired course superintendent was unfazed.

“I surveyed what was here,” Smith said. “I made a quick judgment, and I told Bob (Geppert, the general manager), ‘We’re gonna shoot for Labor Day.’

“We would have made it, too, if it hadn’t been for 10 inches of rain in August…” Please click here to read Phil Arvia’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown.