Golfers Charlie Kinser, left, Rex Hairston, Mickey Chapman and Ken Presley putt-out on the 15th green Friday at Dogwood Hills Golf Resort and Gardens in Flat Rock, Ala.
TEE IT UPGolfers can support the Northeast Alabama Community College Foundation and its Dogwood Hills Golf Resort & Gardens by sponsoring and playing Sept. 5 in the foundation’s annual Golf Classic. Dogwood Hills has been rated as a four-star course by Golf Digest three times since 2004. For more information, contact Heather Rice at riceh@nacc.edu or 256-638-4418, ext. 2301.
When longtime educators Bryce and Doris Slater moved in 1974 to land on Sand Mountain that would become their golf course, they had a vision.
Starting out in Flat Rock, Ala., they grew corn, beans, okra and tomatoes in the fairways of their 145 acres to finance their dream.
They spent decades of developing Dogwood Hills Golf Resort and Gardens into one of region’s finest public rural courses.
Finally, 36 years later, the last part of that vision was realized when the Slaters gave the course and its properties, now 205 acres, to the Northeast Alabama Community College Foundation.