Rural Golf Course Winds Through Antique Farm Machinery

Rural Golf Course Winds Through Antique Farm Machinery AG WORLD Ag World 23-3-21 For farmers, John Nayowski's golf course is a slice of heaven. It has few water hazards, straight and wide fairways, and zero sand traps. The only hazards on this golf course are the old threshers, seed drills, plows and other farm equipment scattered all over the course. Learning to chip over or drive through old equipment is just part of the challenge at the Long Lake Golf & Country Club located near Waskataenau, Alberta. Nayowski began working on the course in 1983 after he retired from a 30-year career in the farm machinery business. After selling his International Harvester dealership he decided he had to find something else to do. An avid golfer himself, he bought a 1/4 section of land and started working on it. A friend suggested he use antique machinery to "decorate" it and things just took off from there. "I've always loved farm machinery and I actually used many of these machines during my early years," says Nayowski. A thresher stands at each tee with information about the holes painted on their sides. "Some guys gave me a threshing machine in exchange for a one-year membership and that deal's still open because I still need two more." Old steel-wheeled tractors and implements line the fairways and box in some of the greens. Occasionally there's a machine right in the middle of the fairway. Many sport the dents of sliced shots. "Old farmers just love coming here," says Nayowski, suggesting that there's often more reminiscing than serious golfing. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, John Nayowski, Long Lake Golf & Country Club, Box 524, Boyle, Alberta T0A 0M0 Canada (ph 780 576-3939 or 780 689-3610).

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