Perry
Park Golf Resort makes plans for off-season events
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Resort will host Halloweenfest in Oct.
By:
LAURA HAGAN
With the
weather as hot as it has been, it is hard to believe it is almost
fall.
For many
businesses, a change in season won’t affect them much.
For Perry
Park Golf Resort, the fall and winter seasons bring the opportunity
to host events that families can enjoy and the community can be
involved in.
A new event planned
this year by the resort is the Halloweenfest, that will take place
on Oct. 27.
Mark Seibert, General
Manager at the resort, said the weekend event will include things
like a hayride and bonfire for kids and their parents.
The resort already hosts
weddings and business meetings at different times of the year,
as well as overnight trips for scrapbookers from in and outside
the county.
“We want to try
a few new things,” Seibert said.
In addition to plans
for new events to draw people to the resort, there has also been
the addition of nine holes to the exisiting 18-hole course. The
holes were added in July.
There are 27 holes total
at the resort, but Seibert said there is always the possibility
of nine more. With 2,500 acres owned by the resort, he said there
is plenty of room to develop.
“The (golfers)
have been really favorable to the (new nine holes),” he
said.
The resort is owned
by Jim Berling and his four sons: Michael, Steven, Tony and Chris.
The Berlings, who live in Northern Kentucky, bought the resort
in 1998. The rest of the staff, except for Seibert, is from Owen
County.
“The staff here
is as friendly as you want to find,” Seibert said. “I
don’t know how you improve on that.”
Though the resort is open year-round, Seibert said the busiest
times for golf are from April to late October. Two college golf
tournaments are played there in March.
With hotel accomodations
for 144 people, Seibert said the resort stays busy, much of the
time with repeat customers.
“Some come back
four times a year,” he said.
Even the record temperatures
in the county the past few weeks haven’t kept many from
getting out to play golf. But as the golf season begins to wind
down, the resort will be working on events for the fall.
“We are trying to promote (the resort) in the off-season,”
Seibert said.
While many of the visitors
to the resort are from out of town, Seibert hopes to bring in
more local people. To help remedy that, Seibert said the Chamber
of Commerce will sponsor a pig roast and golf scramble on Sept.
30.
“You’d be
surprised how many people in the area haven’t been down
here,” he said.
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