Meadville Tribune
VERNON TOWNSHIP —
VERNON TOWNSHIP — A $1,000 reward is being offered for tips leading to the arrest and conviction of the people responsible for destroying the second green at Whispering Pines Golf Course.
Course President Bill Kingzett estimated the damage at between $10,000 and $20,000.
“This is a felony offense,” Kingzett said. “This is our livelihood and whoever is responsible needs to know we are not going to take this sitting down.”
The people responsible “really tore it up,” Kingzett said.
The damage was done between 10 p.m. Saturday night and 4:15 Sunday morning.
Kingzett said police think it was an SUV or pick-up truck that did damage.
Anyone with information can call the Meadville barracks of the state police at 332-6911. The incident number is E05-1406178.
Kingzett said whoever was responsible likely knew the course and knew where they were going.
Access to the third fairway from Cotton Road would likely be a cart path that traverses a ditch.
The second green is secluded from the road by trees and sits down near the bottom of a valley.
Kingzett said the green is unplayable and specialists will need to be called in to repair the damage. The course still has 18 greens. They have changed the course slightly to use a former green that fell into disuse when the course layout was altered.
The course has been family owned for the last 18 years, Kingzett said. He said the course has had minor vandalism before, but nothing to this degree.
