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The Country-Club Test: A Negative, with a Public Course in the Ring

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Inside the town, the negative holds whole: no country club has ever stood in Walkerton, and no golf course stands within the town boundary — the banked register contains no country-club line, and no directory reached lists one. But the test run honestly turns up a correction to any broader claim, and it prints whole: there is golf on Walkerton postal ground. Whispering Pines Golf Course, 32280 State Road 4, north of town in the 46574 ring, is an eighteen-hole, par-72 course of 6,204 yards, opened in 1967 — and it is a public course, open to any paying player, holding a beer-retailer restaurant permit from the ATC (RR7182510), not a members' club. Postal ground is not the town, and a public course is not a country club; the negative stands for the town and for the club form, with the ring's public course named beside it so the record cannot be misread either way.

The county's public courses, stated plainly as public — and as South Bend's, Mishawaka's, and Granger's, not Walkerton's: Erskine Park, the South Bend municipal course, opened 1925; Elbel and Studebaker, the city's other public courses (Studebaker a nine-hole course of 1919); Blackthorn, public, opened 1994; Juday Creek at Granger, public, opened 1989; and Eberhart-Petro, Mishawaka's municipal course. The county's private golf — the South Bend Country Club and Morris Park Country Club — is private, is the county seat's, and is named here only to keep it out of the public list and out of this town's record. Walkerton's own golf fact is a mailbox at a public course five miles north, and this article is its whole size.

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Source: The Country-Club Test: A Negative, with a Public Course in the Ring, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/private-clubs/country-club-test-a-negative-with-a-public-course/