WESTFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - Not only is baseball season underway but golfers are heading to area courses now open to hit the links!
We have had some wet weather recently but we've had some nice days too.
Now that it's April the snow is pretty much all gone and temperatures are warming up, golfer
s are making their way to area golf courses. And right now the course here at East Mountain Country Club in Westfield is in pretty good shape.
Co-owner Ted Perez Jr. told 22News, "The greens are beautiful, they're really rolling nice, we've mowed them a half a dozen times so they're in great shape." And there were plenty of golfers on the course Friday. Some people even came from the Berkshires where some of the courses there haven't opened yet for the season.
"So we come down here this time of year until later this month or early May and play a couple of rounds of golf and get in shape," said Dave Roche of Lenox.
"This has been our winter course for the last three years and we like it down here," Scott MacFadyen adds. While the weather may have been perfect for golfing, there have been quite a few rainy days recently.
Perez Jr. adds, "Typical March it got colder and it got wetter, and as you're seeing now rain yesterday, rain tomorrow so it's still been a good start." While East Mountain Country Club tries to stay open year-round, Perez Jr. says that they make 75% of their revenue from mid-April through mid-September.
And unfortunately, the weather isn't looking quite as nice this weekend for golf as it did today.
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