Shary Municipal Golf Course

OVERVIEW

Shary Municipal Golf Course is a 27-hole golf course with a full service driving range that is open everyday, except for Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Daily play can be by tee time reservation or on a walk-in basis. Most golfers walk the course, but a fleet of 70 electric carts, as well as pull carts, are ready to go. Private carts are welcomed for a nominal fee. Daily green fees are competitively priced, as are annual green fees of $850. The golf course is the number one tourist attraction for the City of Mission during the winter months.

The Golf Shop offers a complete selection of golf equipment and golf attire for men and women. Special orders are accommodated quickly. Other services provided are golf handicaps and a lighted driving range.The entire operation of the Shary Municipal Golf Course is managed through a Golf Director/Head Golf Professional. The shop staff consists of a clubhouse manager, 2 regular clerks, a cart mechanic, 2 cart attendants and a starter/marshal.

The clubhouse also has a full service snack bar for the patrons, with 4 snack bar clerks/beverage cart attendants. The grounds are kept up by 11 employees. The superintendent has set up a regular maintenance schedule to prepare the course for daily play. In addition, activities performed on a less than daily schedule include fertilizing, applying herbicides and pesticides, repairing bare turf areas, trimming trees, and maintaining hazards, sand traps, and winter grass over seeding of greens and tees.

There are 3 associations/groups based out of Shary Municipal Golf Course. They include the Shary Ladies Golf Association, the Monday Night Stroke League, and the Weekend Early Birds Golf League.