After 80 years, Chester County golf club closes
“The sign in the window reads, “Save Meadow Brook Golf Club,” but there seems to be no fight left.
The carts are gone. The pro shop is a vacant stretch of green carpet. The phones go straight to message-less voice mail.
On Friday, the club along Route 29 just outside Phoenixville became the property of the Phoenixville Area School District. That marked what might be the final chapter in a story that inflamed emotions last year when the district seized the 50 acres by eminent domain, saying it needed the land for a new school.
For the Campbell family, which has run the club for 80 years – and which fought for months to keep it – it was a drawn-out goodbye. Yet some patrons still didn’t know the end had come.
Christine Smyth pulled into the gravel parking lot Monday afternoon, dressed in purple fleece and planning to take in some chipping practice in the crisp breeze. Smyth, who lives a few miles away in Paoli, knew the club was having problems, but said she had seen golfers there a few weeks ago and thought it was still open.”
Nadolny, Tricia. Pilly.com 26 September 2014.